A Milan teacher was fired from her job after she allegedly used scissors to cut the tongue of a talkative 7-year-old pupil to silence him. As she held a pair of scissors in her hand, the 22-year-old teacher apparently told a boy to "Stick out your tongue so I can cut it. That way you'll stop talking!"
She then slashed his tongue so badly that he needed five stitches to close the wound, the Il Corriere della Sera newspaper reported. The child's family, who hail from North Africa have filed suit against the teacher, who has been suspended after last week's incident.