Ten-year-old Chinese pupil jumps to his death from 30th floor window ‘on teacher’s orders’ because he had not written an apology for talking in class
- - Fifth-grade student was told to write a 1,000-character apology
- - Neighbours say teacher told him to jump out of building when he failed task
- - Relatives put up banner saying 'Teacher forced our kid to jump off building'
By EMMA THOMAS
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A ten-year-old boy has died after a teacher 'told him' to jump from a building.
The Chinese youngster, named as Jun Jun, fell 30 floors to his death after failing to write a self-criticism letter demanded by his teacher.
The fifth-grade primary school student had been told to write a 1,000-character apology by his teacher, Miss Chen, for talking in class.
His devastated parents have now launched a campaign against the extreme pressure put on Chinese students.
Devastated: The parents of ten-year-old Jun Jun who jumped to his death from a 30-storey building in China. The parents left
devastated by the loss of their son have now started a campaign against the pressure students are put under in Chinese schools
and are demanding that the teacher be sacked
Tragic: Jun Jun jumped from the 30th floor of a building and landed on a parked car outside the family home at a residential building
in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in southwest China
Jun Jun wrote 'teacher, I can't do it' in his textbook. He also wrote 'I flinched several time when I tried to jump from the building'
Neighbours say the 30-year-old teacher told him to jump out of a building after he didn't do the task.
'Teacher, I can't do it,' was found written in one of his textbooks, along with 'I flinched several times when I tried to jump from the building.'
The child smashed into a parked car beneath the flat where his family live in Jinjiang district.
Due to China's strict one-child policy, it is likely Jun Jun was the couple's only child.
His family have posted a banner outside the school in the southwestern city of Chengdu saying 'The teacher forced our kid to jump off the building'.
'The police investigation is still under way,' an official in Jinjiang district said, refusing to comment further, the Hindustan Times reported.
The boy's school said today on its verified account on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, that the child and some of his classmates had been ordered to write reviews of their behaviour after they disturbed a speaking competition.
He died 'by accident', it said.
Strict discipline is an essential part of China's education system and culture, and tradition demands deference to authority, putting children under pressure to obey instructions.
Campaign: A banner outside Jun Jun's school was put up by his heartbroken relatives. He was reportedly told to jump from a building
by his teacher Miss Chen as punishment for not completing a task he was set
Fired: Jun Jun's parents are calling for the teacher that allegedly told him to jump from a building to be sacked
Messages: Photographs of the boy's study book pasted around the school by his parents showed that he had written several times that
he had tried to jump from a building
School: The school is based in the southwestern city of Chengdu (pictured here)
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