Another student said the teacher once threatened to cut the students' hair if they did not behave, according to the website.
The girl's father, surnamed Ye, said his daughter was actually injured last Wednesday. "Because it is a boarding school, it does not contact parents when something happens to their children," he told the news website.
One of Xue's colleagues said that they did not contact the parents because the cut was minor, according to the news website.
The school's board chairman took responsibility for the incident, according to the website. Regardless of whether Xue's actions were intentional, the chairman said it was still the school's fault for managing the teachers poorly. He promised to investigate the incident.
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