A HEAD teacher at a public school in Bao’an District was stripped off her duty for asking to borrow money from her students’ parents, the Daily Sunshine reported yesterday.

    The teacher, surnamed Mai, of Xiwan Primary School (originally known as Xixiang Central Primary School), was exposed through a post made on sznews.com early yesterday morning.

    The poster said that Mai had asked more than 20 of her students’ parents to lend her thousands of yuan and that Mai ran after-school classes for money and profited from selling books to students.

    The post, which contained several screenshots of text messages between Mai and parents of students as evidence, soon circulated on local online forums.

    Gao Bingsheng, the school’s vice principal, confirmed in an interview with the Daily on Tuesday that Mai did ask to borrow money from students’ parents to raise funds to buy an apartment.

    Gao said the school learned that Mai had received 8,400 yuan (US$1,368) from tutoring seven students since September despite being forbidden to engage in tutoring for a profit. In her defense, Mai said she had tutored at the request of friends and relatives who voluntarily offered to pay money.

    The school denied the accusation that Mai had profited from selling books to the school’s students.

    Gao said Mai had apologized for her behavior and agreed to stop tutoring in addition to repaying the money she had earned from it. (Anna Zhao)