Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Yerevan School Teacher Quits Over Abuse Video

A teacher at a public school in Yerevan resigned on Tuesday following the emergence of an Internet video that shows him verbally and physically abusing one of his students.

The video shot on a mobile phone camera by another student was posted on Youtube on Monday and quickly disseminated by online media and social networking websites. It features a middle-aged man insulting and hitting a teenage boy in the classroom.

He was swiftly identified as Eduard Gevargizov, a history teacher at the Secondary School No. 8 located in downtown Yerevan. According to the school principal, Marietta Matghashian, the incident took place in March last year.

Armenian News

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