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When teacher's punishment crosses the line
Alleged incidents of harsh disciplinary action on pre-school kids surfacing in online forums
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Over the past five years, there has been an average of nine substantiated cases of child mismanagement by teachers annually, says the Early Childhood Development Agency.
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Calvin Yang
She would lose her temper and raise her voice in class. She is even said to have hit a four-year-old girl on the head and tapped her mouth to get her to keep quiet, drawing laughter from other children.
This is not a bully terrorising fellow children but, allegedly, a teacher in her 30s disciplining her pupils at a high-end pre-school in Siglap.
