While trying to maintain order in his classroom, a primary school teacher in China hit a student's head, causing her skull to fracture.
The nine-year-old girl had to undergo a five-hour brain surgery to remove the shattered bone fragments and foreign objects in her skull. The 40-year-old male teacher, surnamed Song, had injured the student, surnamed Liu, during an after-school activity at Bocai Meixi Lake Primary School in Yuelu district of Changsha, Hunan last Wednesday , Chinese media reported.Song had hit Liu on the forehead with a triangular ruler made of tempered glassSong reportedly did not inform Liu's parents of the accident, but brought her to the infirmary to bandage the wound.