A teacher's shameless act
Many times in my life I felt embarrassed to be a Bangladeshi, but never more than now. The incide4nt of severe beating and breaking of one hand of a seven-year-old girl named Rexona in Tiakhali Government Primary School is horrific.
It is outrageous that the child could not get proper medical treatment only because her parents are poor.
Why doesn't the school or the offending teacher pay the bill? It's the least that we can demand from them after inflicting such horrific pain to the little girl.
Every child who can read will tell you that a ban on corporal punishment in schools was imposed by the High Court on January 13, 2011. This is probably the only law that every parent, child and teacher in the country knows, thanks to Sir Frank Peters but it's being wilfully and shamelessly violated. If our teachers can not set a good example to our children -- one that is right, moral and lawful then whom the parents would turn to?
We send our children to school to learn the difference between right and wrong and if those who teach them choose to be outlaws, it's time they packed their bags and left before they cause our children more harm.
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