A 12-year-old boy from China needed eye surgery after his teacher apparently ordered other students to slap him in the face as a punishment for failing to do his homework.

Chinese boy requires surgery after teacher orders students to slap him in the face.
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"Whoever's slapping is loudest will get a prize," the teacher reportedly told students. According to the Shanghaiist, the boy was struck about 40 times.

“After being slapped, the teacher made me do push-ups and did not allow me to eat lunch,” the boy, surnamed Dou, said. “Later that night I found out that I couldn’t see properly from my left eye.”

Dou's mother called the elementary school principal when she'd discovered what happened. "I didn't know the damage was so severe," she said. The doctor told me my child's eye might not be cured."

“The school has given us 30,000 yuan ($5000) as compensation, but after one surgery had to be done we’ve already spent it all,” Dou's mother said.

The teacher who encouraged the slapping claimed that punishing children helped them to progress in class, according to Chinese media reports.

The school's principal said the teacher responsible was detained by the police.

The incident happened in Zhengzhou in China's Henan province.

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