Story By: Jonathan Macias, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News

CEN/@dariellaflores

This nursery teacher has been made redundant after recording herself playing a prank on a young girl by squeezing a bottle of water into the tot’s face.

The video was recorded in the Santa Fe Institute in the colony Vista Hermosa in the city of Monterrey in the state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico and later uploaded to social media.

The footage shows the teacher named Dariella Flores, no age given. explaining an activity for a group of children gathered around a table.

The teacher first shows a coin and a bottle of water to her pupils before choosing a girl for the activity.

Then she is heard saying: “Megan is going to see how the coin can be seen if we put it underneath the bottle. Megan do you want to see this magic?”

Then when the little girl leans pouts her face over the bottle to look at the coin below the teacher squeezes the bottle, splashing water into the girl’s face.

Both the teacher and the kids are seen laughing at the confused girl.

The video has bee widely shared on social media with netizens complaining about the teacher’s behaviour in the class.

Netizen ‘Jose Carlo Sanabria’ wrote on Facebook: “Honestly it is sad that there are people who call themselves teachers and use kids to become viral, I do not think they are all like that but why do they do it?”

The school has released a public statement announcing that the teacher was made redundant after the joke.

The Santa Fe Institue wrote in the public statement: “The person on the video is not part of our staff anymore and we have taken legal actions with the competent authorities. We insist that her actions are not aligned with our institutional philosophy”

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