A university teacher has been suspended for smoking inside the classroom while class is going on, a news report says.

Officials from the University of Jinan in Shandong province said that they have suspended a female teacher at the School of Education and Psychology, Dazhong Daily reported. This was announced via a notice circulated around the school.

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Photos that showed the teacher smoking while giving a lecture were posted on social media website Weibo. The photos were uploaded by user "I'm He Xiaoliao without princess syndrome."

"I don't want to breathe her second-hand smoke," the Weibo user wrote. "She doesn't even try to be discreet."

Others commented on the post, trying to explain the teacher's actions away. One commenter said that the teacher behaves that way because she thinks she's "indispensable."

A school official told the newspaper on Sunday that the teacher is a heavy smoker, and that she'd been caught before smoking while giving an exam.

Teaching the Wrong Things

If the teacher from the University of Jinan passed her second-hand smoke to her students, a teacher from Guizhou in southwest China passed the skill of drinking alcoholic drinks to his students.

It was reported last month that Gu Ming, teacher of Traditional Chinese Medicine manufacturing in Guizhou Anshun Vocational Institute, asked his students to drink alcoholic drinks in school as a test. He gave different marks based on the amount of liquor a student can drink.

Gu gave three different marks corresponding to the amount consumed, said a student on social media website Weibo. A full glass gives a student a full 100, half a glass gives a student 90, and a little sip will give 60. Those who refuse to drink even just a little sip will be given failing marks.

Gu's actions have been the subject of heated discussion online, with some bashing him for what he did and others actually defending him, saying that he was only helping the students get used to such a social practice.

Gu was taken off of his teaching position because of the incident.

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