2007 08: Parent: Teacher slapped my son

The Star Online. News. Nation. Saturday July 28, 2007

KLANG: In another case of school rage, a motor workshop owner alleged that a Tamil schoolteacher slapped his son.

M. Shanmugamoorthy, 35, claimed that the teacher was angry that the Year Four pupil had been slow in picking up litter which she had ordered him to clear.

“She scolded my son for the delay and slapped him,” he said, adding that the boy, S. Kirbakaran, stumbled and the left side of his face hit the corner of a desk.

Shanmugamoorthy said he lodged a police report after fetching his son from the school, following Tuesday's incident at the SJK (T) Batu Empat in Kampung Jawa here.

He then took the boy, who had a blue-black mark near the eye, for a medical check-up at the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital.