Online anger at video of teachers at Cannan Kindergarten in Mong Kok throwing pupils’ bags
One-minute video attracts over 302,000 views on Facebook
Netizens are outraged over a viral video that shows teachers at a popular kindergarten chain carelessly throwing kids’ schoolbags around.
Cannan Kindergarten, which has 12 branches across Hong Kong, admitted the incident happened in one of its branches yesterday in a notice to parents. The kindergarten promised to “severely punish” the teachers involved.
In the one-minute video, which has attracted over 302,000 views and almost 1,000 comments on Facebook, two of three staff members were seen distributing schoolbags to around 10 children in a class. But instead of delivering the bags to the children, they threw the bags across to their desks, with some falling on the floor.
The children had to walk over to the bags and pick them up.
The introduction to the video says the incident happened at Cannan’s branch in Charming Garden, Mong Kok.
“People have to wonder whether the teachers used throwing to distribute other things,” the introduction reads. “This move can not only hurt the children, but influence them negatively as well!”