article_snippet: Mr Xie, a teacher in China, has been sacked after punishing two students by making two students kneel on the floor and act as his footstool (above)
article_snippet: A teacher in China has been sacked after punishing two students by making two students kneel on the floor and act as footstools.
article_snippet: Mr Xie made the students crouch on the floor while Mr Xie played on Mr Xie phone and put his bare feet on the students backs, People's Daily Online reported.
article_snippet: Mr Xie, who has been a teacher for 27 years, was dismissed after the Nan'an City Education Department saw a picture on social media.
article_snippet: The image shows the students being made to kneel on the ground in the students school uniforms in front of a crowd of pupils.
article_snippet: The Year One pupils - thought to be aged between six and seven - were taken into a different room and told to kneel on the ground.
article_snippet: Mr Liu said the footstool photo was taken as a joke and added that Mr Xie, who was in charge of disciplining the male students at the school, 'performed well in Mr Liu work and was extremely talented'.
article_snippet: Boys and girls sit in lines outside Nanguang High School in Fujian, where the incident happened .
article_snippet: Mr Liu said: 'Mr Xie’s actions were in violation of our policies and there had to be some form of punishment by the school.'
highlights_snippet: Made students from Nanguang High School kneel on the floor while Mr Xie put Mr Xie bare feet on students from Nanguang High School backs .
  
highlights_snippet: Sacked after Nan'an City Education Department saw picture on internet .