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A primary school teacher in China has been fired after insulting a student’s mother over her son’s academic performance, calling the woman a “peasant” and mocking her working-class background and level of education. The head teacher at a school in Fujian province, southeastern China, publicly humiliated the student’s mother in a parent-teacher WeChat group around May 20. She was dismissed a week later by the local education bureau, the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported. During a conversation in the WeChat group with a number of parents, the head teacher criticised a mother whose son had been experiencing learning difficulties and behavioural...
