Boy, 10, leaps to death ‘on teacher’s orders’

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Boy, 10, leaps to death ‘on teacher’s orders’
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Friday, November 01, 2013
A 10-year-old boy jumped 30 floors to his death after failing to write a self-criticism letter demanded by his teacher. The fifth-grade primary school student had been ordered to write a 1,000-character apology by his teacher for talking in class, China National Radio reported on its website, citing a neighbor. The teacher allegedly told him to jump out of a building after he failed to complete the task, the report quoted relatives and the neighbor as saying. “Teacher, I can’t do it,” was found written in one of his textbooks, CNR said. “I flinched several times when I tried to jump from the building.”The child smashed into a parked car beneath the flat where his family live.

Furious relatives hung a banner outside the school in Chengdu, Sichuan, reading: “The teacher forced our kid to jump off the building.” An official in Jinjiang district, where the tragedy happened, said: “The police investigation is still under way.”

Strict discipline is an essential part of China’s education system and culture, and tradition demands deference to authority, putting children under pressure to obey instructions.

The boy’s school said on its verified account on Sina Weibo, that the child and some of his classmates had been ordered to write reviews of their behavior after they disturbed a speaking competition.

He died “by accident,” it said.

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