China teacher who forced children to take horrifying oath or ‘families will die’ suspended after apology
- Kids told to do nothing but study, otherwise dad will die, then mum
- Parent questions appalling motivation method, teacher suspended
A Chinese teacher who forced his students to make an oath to study hard otherwise their “whole family would die”, has astounded mainland social media.
The teacher, surnamed Wang, from a secondary school in central China’s Henan province, demanded the students in his first-year class make the promise.
In an audio recording, posted online on January 8, Wang is heard telling the children to repeat after him: “I will do nothing but study in the classroom, otherwise my whole family will die. My dad will first die and then my mum.”
Also posted were chat records from a parent-teacher group that Wang belonged to.
A parent in the group told him that students were reluctant to repeat after him and asked: “There are so many ways to motivate a student to study, why use such a dreadful method?”
Wang reacted later by telling the students to take it in turns to go to his office and write the oath down. When four students refused, he told them to “reflect on themselves” at home.