Teacher was just having a bad day

Police in Shanghai are investigating a Chinese teacher who threw a mechanical pencil at a nine-year-old pupil, leaving the pencil's lead sticking into one of his eyes. After emergency surgery at 2am yesterday at Xinhua Hospital, the pupil said he could sense some light with his injured left eye, but still could not see things clearly.

The incident occurred at the Shuifeng Road Elementary School in Yangpu District during lunchtime on Wednesday when the teacher threw the mechanical pencil at the student from about a meter away.

The student is reported to have said that his teacher used to be a good and kind who "would not give the students a lot of homework." But he said he couldn't understand why she had become so angry and thrown the pencil at him.

The teacher is now under investigation by both the police and Yangpu District Education Bureau officials.  What is the quote of the day comes from the education authority which said "the teacher might simply have lost her temper." Her behavior was a one-time aberration as she had previously enjoyed a good reputation and was regarded by pupils as a kind teacher, a bureau official said.