A
Malaysian teacher has apologized for forcing 200 schoolgirls to squat in a
dirty pond after they failed to own up to a sanitary pad found in a toilet
bowl, a newspaper said Thursday.
The Star
newspaper said in its online edition that the 27-year-old female teacher had
been spared punishment after the apology to the parents of the students. (www.thestar.com.my)
"Everybody
has forgiven her," the school's parent-teacher association chairman, Jimmy
Kiu, was quoted as saying. "The incident is
settled in good faith."
Newspapers
Sunday reported that the girls were in the pond for an hour in heavy rain and
the teacher, who was also a hostel warden, watched under an umbrella.
A school
official had said the warden was angry and punished the girls after she found
the sanitary pad in the toilet bowl.
