13-year-old with cancer forced to sit alone in class because teacher thought his disease was contagious
A teacher in a primary school located in South-East China was suspended after he was accused of discriminating against one of his own students who had cancer. The 13-year-old boy, Xiaozhou, was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Local Chinese media have reported that the teen was forcefully made to sit apart from the rest of his classmates and wasn't allowed to take his exams because his teacher believed the disease was contagious.
According to Strait News, the child had only recently been transferred to the Liancheng Primary School in Quanzhou, Fujian, so he could be closer to where his parents stayed while he recovered from his chemotherapy sessions. Zhou Xiongying, the teen's father, took to social media in the beginning after his son told him why he didn't get a mark for a midterm examination.
