Shock as Malaysia teacher tells ‘stupid’ pupil struggling with dialect to ‘go back to China’
Teacher tells complaining relative of abused student that she would call police to track him down because he had ‘invaded her privacy’
A secondary school teacher in Malaysia has been placed under investigation after insulting a student for not understanding Malay and asking him to “go back to China”.
The incident went viral after an audio clip of a phone call between the teacher and a man, who said he was a relative of the student, was posted online.
The man asked the teacher if she had called the student “stupid”, and asked him to sit next to the dustbin and the teacher confirmed she had.
She said she punished the student because he did not understand what she said in Malay.
She also admitted to the man that she told the 13-year-old student that he and his parents should “go back to China” for not understanding Malay.
The teacher who works at a school in Perak state in western Malaysia said she had worked at other secondary schools but never met with such communication barriers.