By IANS
Kathmandu : A teacher forced over 80 students in Nepal to eat dung because they had not done their homework, media reports said.
Exasperated by students repeatedly not turning in their homework, the teacher warned her third and fourth-grade students at Janajyoti School in Lung village in Pyuthan district that she would make them eat cow dung if they continued to play truant.
Last week, when the children still did not mend their ways, the enraged teacher forced 82 students to eat dung, Nepal's local media said.
The punishment created a furore, with angry parents forcing the closure of the school and demanding that action be taken against the teacher.
What added to the protesters' anger was that though Sushila's son too was among the 'guilty' students, he was not meted out the same punishment.