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Thursday, February 19, 2004
Teacher ‘pokes, hurts’ eye of grade 3 student
A TEACHER of a private school is accused by her pupil of piercing his eye with her long fingernail and slapping his back in class.
The incident happened 10 a.m. Tuesday during class hours in one of the Chinese-Filipino schools in Cebu City.
The 10-year-old third grader is a son of a top elective official of Zamboanga City. Sun.Star is withholding the identities of the boy and his teacher because of his age and the absence of the teacher’s side to the accusation.
The boy, accompanied by an elder sibling, gave an account of what happened to the Carbon police.
He said he was fixing his ballpen when his teacher approached him and scolded him. Minutes earlier, he ignored her call for him to do something. His teacher would always make him carry her books for her and that time, he felt that he had had enough of this book-lugging.
While scolding him, she pointed a finger at him but her long fingernail pierced his right eye.
She immediately brought him to the school clinic and told him that if anyone asked him what happened to his eye, he was to say that some foreign matter got into it. And if anyone asked why he was in the clinic at such an hour, he was to say that he was only resting.
The boy’s mother had already called the attention of the principal to the teacher’s penchant for sending her son on errands. The incident last Tuesday was too much for her and had it reported to the police.
The boy also had his eye treated at the Cebu City Medical Center and secured a medical certificate. From a report of Superbalita
(February 19, 2004 issue)
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