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Chinese teacher fired for running from quake school11:07AM Thursday June 19, 2008
BEIJING - A Chinese high school teacher has been fired and denouncedby local media and internet users for fleeing a classroom before hisstudents during last month's devastating earthquake.
FanMeizhong, a Chinese-language teacher at a private high school inquake-ravaged Dujiangyan in southwest Sichuan province, has beenbranded "running Fan" on internet chat-rooms and come under fire fordefending his actions online in a lengthy post.
The 8.0 magnitudeearthquake on May 12 killed more than 70,000 people, includingthousands of children at their desks in what many parents believe wereshoddily made school buildings.
"At such a life-or-death moment,I would only consider sacrificing my life for my daughter. I would notdo it for anyone else, even my mother," Fan wrote on popular onlineportal Tianya.cn.
"Ina flash I felt it - a big earthquake! Then I charged to the building'sstairs," Fan said, adding that he was the first person to emerge fromthe school on to the soccer pitch.
None of the children in his literature class died in the quake.
China'seducation ministry confirmed that Fan had been dismissed, but said itwas the school's decision and denied media reports that it had issued aspecial order demanding it. Fan said he had not ruled out suing theauthorities over the decision.
Fan's account has enraged China,as it struggles to rebuild damaged cities and provide housing formillions of victims displaced by the quake.
"I know many teachersdied protecting children during the earthquake... In this long essay, Ican't see any 'person' here, I just see a big 'me'," a post in responseto Fan's account said.
Despite a massive outpouring of charity inthe wake of the quake, Chinese bloggers have been quick to round onthose deemed unsympathetic.
Movie actress Sharon Stone drewscathing criticism late last month after suggesting that "karma" mighthave played a part in causing the earthquake after China's crackdown onunrest in ethnic Tibetan areas in March.
- REUTERS
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