MORE THAN JUST A TEACHER

HOW admiring it is to find that there are still people who not only care but are quite vigilant of other people’s circumstances.

While reading the newspaper the other day I saw how this one teacher took it upon themselves to find out why this particular child exhibited such offish behaviour.
Where more often than not this child would have been reprimanded for wetting herself, this teacher looked beyond this, on a mission to find out why this young girl would remain behind when her classmates were given a pee-break.
Another teacher would have pulled the longest stick they could find to ‘abolish’ this behaviour with the belief that this particular child was purposefully wetting herself.

Another would probably even make fun of this young girl by making her the spectacle of the class to ‘demonstrate’ how not to soil yourself and how you look thereafter and what have you.
While the issue of whether or not to fully abolish corporal punishment in schools rages on, this particular child’s behaviour would have led many to strike or even scold her instead of looking at her circumstances.
This should be an example to even other members of society who should keep an eye out for children’s behaviour as not just a ‘weakness’ in them but rather a physical reaction to abuse they may be suffering at the hands of these vultures who live in our midst.

For some children, speaking out may be such a problem that even when facing real trauma they may hide the truth; usually because the more the adult probes the more impatient they may get with the child to even use foul language.
At the end of the day the real issue of the child goes unsolved though noticed and the perpetrator of this violence goes on scot-free.
Some children because of their ability to exhibit a sixth sense are continually hushed by their guardians such that when tragedy strikes they may not say anything as they are always told to shut up.

As Swazis or rather most African nations and other people’s believe that a child who constantly talks alone (imaginary friends), or draws strange or gory pictures is bewitched – which is only true if you believe in black magic – their ability to express themselves diminishes when their only outlet is clogged by overbearing guardians.
It takes the strength then of such individuals who look beyond a child’s physical behaviour or exhibition to ask why such a child would suddenly change and fear going to the toilet yet wet themselves shortly thereafter.

Society needs such teachers and individuals in particular, and it is about time CCTV cameras are introduced in schools to monitor individuals who roam school boundaries during odd hours.

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