Chinese student writes to teacher: ‘I will kill myself if you don’t give me back my phone’
The teacher at the southern China school had confiscated the phone after spotting a student playing a game on it during lunch break
A Chinese teenager wrote to her high school teacher threatening to kill herself if her confiscated mobile phone was not returned to her, local media reported on Tuesday.
The girl did eventually get the phone back but has since quit the school in China’s southern Hunan province.
According to photos of her letter posted on China’s Twitter-like Weibo microblogging service, she wrote to the teacher: “I know it was my fault that I did not hand in my cell phone, but please think about it. I used to go out to play a lot, so my dad bought me the phone.
“Now I’m asking you if you will return it, and if you don’t I’ll kill myself.”
The teacher confiscated the phone on Friday, after spotting a student playing a game on it during lunch break.
The girl went to the teacher’s office later that day and demanded the phone be returned to her. The teacher refused, citing a school ban on student mobile phones, Women Platform reported.