Mathura Teacher Walks on Chairs Held by Kids to Enter Flooded School, Suspended

The teacher was suspended after a video of the incident came out.

A school teacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district was suspended after a video of her walking into a flooded school by using plastic chairs as stepping stones went viral.

The video shows a group of children setting the chairs in half a feet water for the teacher to climb and cross over.

The school compound was inundated on Wednesday, 27 July, after incessant rain.

A primary school teacher in UP's Mathura was suspended after she was seen climbing on chairs to cross the water logging outside the school. pic.twitter.com/F6uHkhFakm

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Neetu Singh, Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) in-charge, Mathura, said, "We have taken cognisance of the video. Higher up officials also know about it. We have suspended the teacher Pallavi."