Protect our children
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May Almighty Allah help the children of this nation and forgive some ignorant 'teachers' for the irreparable damage they are doing to the individual student and society on the whole. As a doctor I see the physical damage regularly. The fact-filled provocative story by Sir Frank Peters about the mental scars and horrors of corporal punishment should be given as a government hand-out to all teachers in Bangladesh. I fear the majority of 'teachers' do not know what damage they are causing. Teaching practices have gone unchecked for far too long. For decades we accepted corporal punishment as being 'normal', even turned a blind eye to the most brutal, inhumane beatings of children as if magically the torture did the child good. I'm sickened that although corporal punishment is now OUTLAWED, some 'teachers' continue its practice. The quicker these 'teachers' are removed from the classrooms, the better for Bangladesh.
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