A primary school in Shenzhen has apologized for the misconduct of a young teacher who stamped blue and red marks on the faces of her students according to their performance.

School sorry for face stamping.

School sorry for face stamping

Online pictures showed red marks on the foreheads of pupils who performed well while naughty ones had blue marks on their cheeks. The pupils said they could not rub off the marks until school was over, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.

''I felt humiliated and my classmates all laughed at me,'' said a child with a blue mark on his face. ''I begged my teacher to stamp it on my arm but she refused.''

A parent said it's like ''tattooing an inmate in ancient times to show the man was a criminal.''

Shangfen Primary School in Guangdong Province said a newly recruited teacher surnamed Guo used the method on grade three pupils as she wanted to motivate them to perform well in school.

Other teachers gave marks on students' exercise books.

Guo admitted it was inconsiderate to stamp the faces of the pupils. ''I will examine my wrongdoings and I won't do it again,'' she said.

Li Yu, the school's deputy head, said the school would give further training for young teachers, but didn't say if Guo would be punished, the paper reported.

News of Guo's action circulated online and triggered a public outcry.

''She must be fired and local education officials are required to make a public apology,'' wrote a microblogger on Weibo.com.

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