A primary school teacher has been suspended from teaching for slapping students and ordering them to kneel down as punishments.
North Point Government Primary School principal Tang Oi-lin said parents of a Primary Three student complained that their son was slapped on the face on Tuesday.
'We then launched an investigation, talked with his classmates and other students and found that the case was serious,' Ms Tang said.
More parents complained and, as well as slapping students, the teacher was found to be punishing them by asking them to go down on their knees, the principal added.
Ms Tang did not say why the teacher punished the students in class.
'We have to control our emotions,' she said. 'It is very inappropriate for any teacher to punish students in these ways, whatever happened.'