How many children have our schools destroyed due to poor treatment?

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Last August, a surveillance camera inside a classroom in India captured a six-year-old first-grader who had forgotten to complete his homework. The teacher reprimanded him severely, slapped him in the face, and humiliated him in front of his classmates to the point that he went into shock, his heart stopped, and he died in front of the teacher. The incident was broadcast on the internet.

In the United States, a fifth-grade teacher once told her students, “I love you all,” while secretly harboring disdain for a student named Teddy. His clothes were always filthy, his academic performance was very poor, and he was withdrawn.

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She wronged the poor boy, unaware of his circumstances. She took pleasure in grading his papers with a red pen, writing “F” (Fail) on them. One day, she was asked to review the previous school records of each student. She read that the first-grade teacher had written: “Teddy is a bright, talented child who does his work with care and in an organized manner.” The second-grade teacher wrote: “Teddy is an excellent and well-liked student, but he is distressed because his mother has cancer.”

The third-grade teacher wrote: “His mother’s death affected him deeply,” while the fourth-grade teacher noted: “Teddy is withdrawn and shows little interest in studying.”

At that point, the teacher, Ms. Thompson, realized the problem and felt ashamed for having wronged him. When the students brought her Christmas gifts wrapped in pretty ribbons, Teddy’s gift was wrapped in a bag taken from grocery bags.

The students laughed at his gift: a necklace with missing stones and a perfume bottle that was only a quarter full.

However, the teacher expressed admiration for the beauty of the necklace and the perfume, thanked him, put on the necklace, and applied some of the perfume to her clothes. After school, Teddy waited for her outside and said, “Your scent today is just like my mother’s.”

At that moment, the teacher burst into tears, moved by his words.

Several years later, this teacher received an invitation from a medical school to attend the graduation ceremony of that year’s class, signed by “Your son, Teddy.” He had graduated as a doctor.

Teddy Stoddard is one of the most famous doctors in the world and the owner of the Stoddard Cancer Treatment Center.

We hope the Ministry of Education will consider schoolchildren as the future leaders of the country in the near future. How many children have been ruined by our schools due to poor handling? How many students’ personalities have we destroyed?

In 1962, I was a child at Al-Mubarakiya School. As you all know, the English letter “F” resembles the cane of an elderly person. Whether written large or small, it is a “cane.” The teacher, Abidun Bisso, came holding a cane and asked me to write the letter. I wrote it correctly, though my hand was trembling.

He shouted, “No!” and struck me harshly, as if breaking my fingers. The question now is: If I had come to hate this language (or languages) because of this teacher’s cruelty, would I have succeeded in my work at my country’s embassies abroad?

In English, I benefited my country by writing reports. In Europe, I spoke French with the French. I learned Portuguese in Brazil and spoke Spanish with the President of Argentina.