
What happened: On Feb 24, sharing a video from @fakta.indo , India Today reported that Indonesian school teachers were recorded throwing smartphones, belonging to their students, in a barrel of fire. Click here to see the video in question. Details: In the video, a teacher can be seen tossing iPhones into a barrel of fire while several children plead the teachers to stop as another instructor throws an iPhone into the barrel. What we know: There is no mention of where or when the video was filmed, according to the Indonesian website, Suara.com, because neither the students nor the professors present appeared to be wearing face masks. When translated from Indonesian to English, the caption of the post reads: “Cellphone raids at Islamic boarding schools, cell phones confiscated and burnt.” The video: The video has received over 875k views, with social media users commenting on their thoughts in the post’s comments section calling the punishment a ‘bit too drastic’ as a user said, “Educators by name, and yet they choose to set such a poor example. If something doesn’t belong to us, we have no right to destroy it. They could have confiscated it and then returned the phones to the students a week later,” while another one chimed in and stated: “Maybe the boarding school has reprimanded it many times. Maybe in this way the students will give up bringing cellphones.”