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A high-school teacher in Harbin, Heilongjiang province has been suspended after she was recorded yelling at students for failing to buy her presents for Teachers' Day. 
According to the education department of Yilan country, teacher Feng Qunchao was suspended indefinitely after students in her 11th grade class said she called them a "bunch of bums" and hurled other insults at them for not getting her a present on the holiday, which occurs in China on September 10. 
"How can I face the other teachers?" Feng was heard telling her students on a recording made by one of them and later submitted to authorities. "They all received presents from their students but me. How embarrassed I am!" 
After their teacher's outburst, the students pooled 600 yuan (HK$757) to buy her a gift. 
Zhang Zhenyu, head of the county's education department, said that asking students for a gift was unprofessional and Feng had been ordered to reimburse them. 
The date of Teachers' Day has been a point of contention in China for many years, with many calling for it to be moved to September 28, Confucius's birthday. 
Last year, China's State Council asked for the public's opinions on a number of proposed amendments to the national Teachers' Law, including changing the date of the Teachers' Day to coincide with the anniversary of the famous scholar's birth. 
"This would help to remind teachers that we should always set an exemplary model for pupils at school and observe virtuous ethics like Confucius did over 2,000 years ago," Wang Huamin from the China Preschool Education Association in Beijing said at the time. "It's time that we should return to our cultural heritage and restore the ethics we have lost over the years."
The proposed date change remains highly controversial, and the National People's Congress Standing Committee hadn't decided on a date to deliberate on the amendments to the Teachers' Law, the China News Service reported on Sunday. 


'You bunch of bums!' Harbin teacher berates students for failing to buy Teachers' Day gift

A screenshot from a local TV programme in Yilan, Heilongjiang Province showing the school where the incident occurred. Photo: SCMP Pictures

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