Primary-School Attack Sparks Online Debate Over Bullying

(Beijing) — Chinese social media has been buzzing about how education authorities handle bullying, after a mother accused one of Beijing's most popular primary schools of trying to downplay an incident as merely a prank that went too far.

In an article published on WeChat on Thursday, a mother of a 10-year-old student at Zhongguancun No. 2 Primary School said her son was attacked by two of his classmates in a school restroom on Nov. 24. The two boys allegedly put an overturned trash can over the victim's head, leaving him covered in soiled toilet paper.