The key facts

  • The incident occurred on November 9 at Kosulino Secondary School; the teenager hit a radiator
  • The Investigative Committee for Sverdlovsk Region opened a criminal case; the article has not been specified
  • The school is conducting an internal review and declined to comment; the class monitor called the situation ambiguous

Incident at Kosulino Secondary School

On November 9, at a secondary school in Kosulino near Yekaterinburg, a physical education teacher, according to a witness, forced a ninth-grader to his knees, dragged him by the hair and struck him. This was reported by Gazeta.Ru citing the E1 portal. During the incident, the teenager hit a radiator, after which the teacher began shouting at him, accusing him of violating discipline. According to preliminary information, relations between the teacher and the student had long been tense.

Reaction of the school and investigators

The school refused to comment while an internal review is underway. The class monitor, speaking to REN TV, called the situation ambiguous: “The guys put on a circus and do it constantly; this teacher simply stopped tolerating it — he tolerated it for all these 4 years, and honestly I feel very sorry for him,” the schoolboy said. After the information about the incident spread widely, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Sverdlovsk Region opened a criminal case; the article has not been specified. Investigators are questioning witnesses, an expert examination has been ordered, and the details and circumstances of the incident are being established.

Context of similar conflicts

Gazeta.Ru also recalls other conflicts between teachers and schoolchildren. In Kuzbass, a sixth-grader's insult of a math teacher ended in a fight: the footage shows the teacher first pushing the student toward the blackboard, then toward the exit, and after the student pushed back at the door, the fight continued in the corridor; schoolchildren said that two weeks before the incident the teacher had barred their classmate from classes over an insult. Earlier in Kemerovo, a student with scissors attacked a teacher right at school.