A kindergarten in Yanshi, Central China's Henan Province apologized after one of their teachers took nude photos of more than 20 male students and uploaded the images to social media without informing their parents, media reported on Tuesday.
The teacher surnamed Ma admitted that she took a series of nude photos in July and uploaded them to social media but insisted that she did this for a good reason, chinanews.com reported.
Ma was quoted as saying that she was giving the boys sexual education and helping them to learn about life.
One of the photos uploaded online showed about 20 naked boys standing in rows with their hands covering their private parts. Another picture showed boys lying on the ground in a heart shape.
Some parents, who stumbled across the pictures online, felt "very uncomfortable" and few accused the teacher of being a pervert, according to the chinanews.com report.
Ma said that she uploaded these pictures onto the Internet simply because she felt the kids were cute. Ma said that she sent the girls in her class to another classroom when she took these pictures.
The incident triggered public discussion among netizens with some questioning the teacher's motivation and others expressing their worries that someone could hurt kids in the name of education.
"What kind of education needs her to take nude photos? The teacher should be punished by law. And we really need to teach our kids to protect their privacy," a Net user commented on Sina Weibo.
