VietNamNet Bridge - A teacher at an international school in HCM City has angered the public after calling the first grader a donkey. The child insisted on withdrawing from school after the insult.

Many students at the Vietnam-Australia people-founded international school did not go to class on October 16. Parents said they deliberately did not bring children to the school for fear that the children would be rudely treated by the teacher.

The students told their parents that they were afraid of going to school. “The teacher would say ‘you are as stupid as a donkey’ if someone has bad writing,” a parent said after hearing from her daughter about what happened in the class. 

“If school girls do not take a nap after lunch, the teacher would say she would cut the girl's’ hair to make them ‘as ugly as bad boys’. Meanwhile, schoolboys who make mistakes, would be forced to stand at the corner so that their friends shame them,” the parent continued.

Many parents have raised their voice criticizing the teacher for the ‘anti-pedagogical behaviors’. Ngoc Mai, a parent, said her daughter could not drink water while she was in class, because her water jug was seized by the teacher. 

“The teacher did not let students drink water because she feared students may spill water and dirty the floor. Students were told not to go to toilet during the lessons. Students who make mistakes have to stand in the corridor as punishment,” Mai said.

“I could not imagine that a teacher would apply these anti-pedagogical measures to educate students,” Mai said.

Meanwhile, another parent noted the teacher, named Hong, did many ‘extraordinary things’ to students. She applied lipsticks on schoolboys’ lips so that they were teased by classmates. She forced students to stand in the open air under the sun. A student reportedly had to stand under the sun nine times. 

L, a parent said her daughter now does not want to go to school, because the girl thinks she is too foolish to study.

Tran Thi Phuong Dung, the manager of the Binh Thanh district branch of the Vietnam-Australia International School, has announced that the teacher has been suspended. 

The behavior of the teacher has stunned the public. “I could not imagine that a teacher from an international school would dare do that,” commented Tran Kieu Mai, a parent in Bac Tu Liem district in Hanoi.

International schools, in parents’ thoughts, are well-invested schools with good facilities, good teaching staff and high tuition. 

VNE