A math teacher in Artyom, Russia has been filmed doing something terrible to her students. Security camera videos show her putting tape over students’ mouths and hitting one boy with part of a chair. Parents are furious after seeing what happened in the classroom.
According to The Sun, the videos show two different things the teacher did. In one clip, she tapes up the mouths of several kids. In another video, she grabs a chair leg and uses it to hit a male student. Parents can’t believe the school didn’t fire her right away when they found out about this.
One mother spoke up after watching the footage. She asked “Are we supposed to consider this normal?” She also said this wasn’t the first time something like this happened. “A similar attack was a day before yesterday,” she explained. Another mom just said “I am in shock” when she saw what the teacher did to the children.
The investigation took a wild turn nobody expected
Even though there’s clear video proof, the teacher and the school principal are acting like it’s not a big deal. The teacher said she was only “jokingly” punishing some troublemakers in her class. Parents aren’t buying this excuse at all. School officials are actually defending her, saying she’s a “respected” teacher. This situation reminds people of other troubling cases where teachers faced consequences for their classroom actions.
The Sun reports that the local prosecutor’s office said they’re looking into the teacher for bad conduct. But here’s the weird part. Instead of focusing on what the teacher did, a children’s rights official named Olga Romanova is going after the mothers.
CCTV footage shows the moment a math teacher at the school in Artyom, Russia, was caught on camera taping the mouth of her students and then using a chair leg to hit a student — sparking outrage from parents
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Teacher claims she was “jokingly” punishing “tearaways” in her class pic.twitter.com/XVG3AG3Erc
She’s saying the parents broke the law by getting the security footage and putting it online. She claims they violated privacy rules about children’s data.
Yekaterina Mizulina is a well known children’s rights activist who runs Russia’s Safe Internet League. She shared the videos but warned they were only for adults to watch. She said the students might have been acting up and bothering the teacher. But even she admitted “such a reaction is beyond the pale.”
Parents say the teacher had been taping mouths and hitting kids on the head for a while. They only managed to stop it by finding video evidence of what was going on. The whole thing makes people wonder if Russian schools actually punish teachers who do bad things. The teacher is still being investigated but hasn’t been suspended. Parents want to know if their kids will be safe from this kind of treatment going forward.
