A 11-year-old Chinese schoolgirl in Hunan Province was thrown out the window to her death after being beaten by a metal rod in class by her history teacher.

Chinese families across the country are able to send their children to school tuition-free in the nine-year compulsory education period as of Monday. From this fall semester, about 28.21 million urban students in primary schools and in junior high schools joined rural students to benefit from the plan, according to the Ministry of Education. The students still must pay for textbooks and uniforms.