Why are schoolchildren forced to suffer?
I very often read in the newspapers and watch in the television news that schoolchildren all over Bangladesh are kept standing on roads under scorching sun for hours together to greet the ministers, state ministers, deputy commissioners and even thana nirbahi officers. This is not acceptable because Bangladesh is not a kingdom but a democratic country. These high officials, for whom the poor children are forced to suffer, are public servants employed for the benefit of the citizens of Bangladesh and don't require any honour to be shown by torturing our young citizens.
So I would request the relevant authorities to identify the people responsible for making the children suffer in this way, punish them and stop this kind of medieval brutality permanently.
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