Teacher fired for beating students

Gao Xiaopeng, a teacher in Beijing's Tongzhou district, has been fired for administering corporal punishment on 11 students in class, local authorities said.

Last Tuesday, Gao physically punished the third-graders in the district's Mingxing Elementary School for not finishing their homework.

"He slapped us first," one of the students said. "Then he used a paper fan and a broom to beat the students, and even shoved one of the student's head into the blackboard."