Overview

• Police and officials confirmed the October 17 altercation at Poselskaya Secondary School in Ivolginsky District, where a student sustained a wrist fracture.
• Video circulated on social media shows the confrontation in a cloakroom as other students tried to separate the teacher and the pupil.
• The regional child ombudsman condemned any use of physical force in schools and said authorities are in contact with the family.
• Law enforcement opened a check after a hospital report, the republic’s prosecutor took oversight, and the Education Ministry launched a departmental review with a district commission on site and a mediation session planned.
• The district chief said the physics and math teacher, in his second year at the school, is suspended pending clarification, and school leaders will hold an unscheduled meeting on October 21.