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Bangalore, Sep 1: The recent incident, where a student was thrashed by her teachers is not an isolated one. Child helplines in the City have received scores of such complaints from students in past six months. The helplines are getting calls not just from the students but also their parents. ‘Makkala Sahayavani’, for instance, has received 19 calls in six months.
Recently, Karnataka State Council for Child Welfare launched ‘Child Protection Card’, where people can write about any problem related to children. Vasudeva Sharma, a Child Welfare Committee (CWC) member said that they had received 15 letters in the past few months, all narrating tales of harassment by teachers or by school authorities.
“We have sent notices to the teachers warning them against such behaviour,” he told this website's newspaper.
Sharma pointed out that the Bangalore urban CWC has also come across two cases of teachers pestering students in private schools.
Explaining such cases, Sharma said that in many schools the management makes the parents sign a letter during admission that lays down a condition debarring them from interfering with the management’s decisions.
“This condition says, in not so many words, that parents should not intervene when schools punish their children,” he added. While, in some cases, parents themselves ask teachers to punish their children.
He said all problems involving students could be brought to the notice of child helplines or through letters to the CWC.
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