HARDEEVILLE, S.C. – The mother of a South Carolina elementary school student is fuming after teachers forced her son to clean a toilet he clogged at the school with his bare hands.

“He has to live with these decisions from the teacher, taking matters into her own hands and handling the situation that way,” the boy’s mother told NBC 5. “I feel like they should be not just suspended if that’s what happened, they should be fired.”

The parent told the news site her 7-year-old son was recently forced by a teacher and paraprofessional at Royal Live Oaks Academy to clean a toilet he clogged with his bare hands. The educators allegedly told the student he used too much toilet paper and made him pick it out through his feces, according to NBC 5.

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“I’ve heard of a lot of things in teaching, but I’ve never heard of anything like this,” Jasper County Chairwoman Barbara Clark, a 35-year teacher, told the news site. “I call it exactly how I see it, and that is wrong. It is so ridiculous, and every time I think of it, it makes me sick.”

ABC 13 reports the teacher and paraprofessional denied the allegations, but other students who witnessed the act substantiated the events. Both of the educators were suspended, but later returned to work.

The mother said her son left school traumatized by the incident. Clark agrees that school officials should fire the duo.

“It was belittling to the student it happened to, it was belittling to the teaching profession, and it should have been belittling to the teacher who had the young student do something like that,” Clark said.

“Get them out of that school. That is going to put a stigma over that school and we want to see our schools in Jasper County succeed,” she said. “We want to see the negative go away. We want to see the positive.

“And here it is, another negative.”

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Nearly everyone who commented on the story online were flabbergasted by the teachers’ actions.

“I can’t think of any reason why the school would want those teachers back in the classroom,” Charles posted to ABC 6.

“They need to be fired for good,” hollyfairview70 wrote. “That is biologically hazardous, no excuse for what they did.”

“The teachers shouldn’t just be fired, they should be arrested,” Michael Jenkins commented. “What they did was child abuse and endangerment, period, end of story. If it was my kid they would both be in the hospital.”

Neilander Jensen Bch suggested a more appropriate punishment for the offending educators.

“Both fired, after they cleaned all the toilets with their bare hands,” Neilander posted. “Unimaginable … poor kid.”

Others pointed out that the same behavior by parents may very well have resulted in serious repercussions.

“If parents had made their child to dthat, social servicews would get involved and more than likely the parents would be charged with child cruelty!” Helen Mclean Alexander posted to NBC 5. “They should be fired the both of them!”