throw-back<\/span> to their own school days when they were given corporal punishment). How would they cope? \u2013 By beating their wives, kicking their dogs?<\/p>\nIt became all too clear that the teaching fraternity were incapable of self-control, self-discipline, self-regulation. Renegade \u2018teachers\u2019 carried on acting out their insanity and falsely labelling their cruel inhumane actions as \u2018discipline\u2019.<\/p>\n
The nation recoiled in horror and disbelief when stories of cruelty to children by \u2018respected caring teachers\u2026 pillars of society\u2019 like the following examples emerged in the headlines:<\/p>\n
[] \u00a0\u00a0In May 2012, 14 young girls at Talimul Quran Mahila Madrassah in Kadamtali were literally branded for life with a red-hot cooking spatula by their \u2018teacher\u2019 Jesmin Akhter to give them a sample of what hell is like (as if Dhaka\u2019s traffic wasn\u2019t enough!)<\/p>\n
[] \u00a0Culprit \u2018teacher\u2019 at Srijani Bidyaniketan, run by Patuakhali University<\/span> of Science and Technology, misbehaved equally as bad. A \u2018teacher\u2019 ordered the students to stand up and sit down while holding their ears as punishment for making noise during recess. <\/b>The secondary school director, AKM Mostafa Zaman, also agriculture dean<\/span> in<\/span> the university, then arrived on the scene, but not to admonish the \u2018teacher\u2019 for her misbehaviour<\/span> and law-breaking act, but to make matters worse\u2026 a hell of a lot worse.<\/p>\nHe confined the hapless pupils to a room of the under-construction building for the university\u2019s disaster management department, tied their hands with rope and put 10 house bricks on the head of each student. \u00a0Let us remember he was the dean, expected to set a good example to one and no doubt aware of the 2011 High Court ruling that abolished corporal punishment in schools.<\/p>\n
But did the crime stop there? \u2013 No! \u00a0He went on to beat the victims with sticks until they fell<\/span> sick!<\/p>\nThen this year headmaster of Nurainpur Primary School<\/span> in Patuakhali, beat several class V students and made them clean the blackboard using their tongues! If only these headmasters would put their innovative thinking into offering better education, Bangladesh would blossom.<\/p>\nThen there was Lob Chandra Das, a teacher of Kalidaha High School<\/span> at the Kalidaha union of Feni who ruthlessly caned 13-year-old Mirazul Alam after he had scuffled with a girl student in his class. Mirazul<\/span> could not speak for 11 days after the incident. Doctors said Mirazul was so traumatised<\/span> by this experience that he burst into a hysterical cry at the mere mention of his teacher\u2019s name.<\/p>\nEducation Minister Nurul Islam MP<\/b> and Education Secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury<\/b> deserve national honours<\/span> and to be listed in the Hall of Fame (beside Justice Md. Imman<\/span> Ali and Justice Md Sheikh Hasan Arif) for their efforts to totally eradicate the abominable corporal punishment from the education system.<\/p>\nWhile much has been accomplished since the High Court ruling in 2011, it is obvious just from the examples of torture given above, there\u2019s still a lot more to be done.<\/p>\n
APPEAL TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS:<\/b><\/p>\n
If you are a parent or a guardian do not allow these salaried thugs, hooligans and outlaws who carry the title of \u2018teacher\u2019 to damage your precious Allah-given gift. Speak up on their behalf. One of the main roles of all parents is to protect their children.<\/p>\n
Not too surprisingly \u2018teachers\u2019 who dish out corporal punishment are more often than not, bullies and cowards.<\/p>\n
To prevent your child from being on the receiving end of corporal punishment, most times all it needs is for the child\u2019s father to visit the \u2018teacher\u2019 and headmaster at the school and tell them they never want their child to be given corporal punishment again. (\u2018Teachers\u2019 at Motijheel Ideal school, National Ideal School Banasree, Rampura and Haydarabad<\/span> Ramoni Kumar High School can expect such visits.) Yes, it\u2019s that simple. The \u2018or else\u2019 bit is unsaid, but understood! They might be bullies<\/span>, cowards and lawbreakers, but they\u2019re not dimwits!<\/p>\nIt is the moral duty of all to speak up for those who are unable to speak for themselves, especially your family members. And if you love them, as you profess, then do something about it.<\/p>\n
Sir Frank Peters is a former newspaper and magazine publisher and editor, an award-winning writer, humanitarian, human rights activist, and a foreign friend of Bangladesh. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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