Schools are looking into cases of bullying that are being reported - Akbar

The Minister for Education, Rosy Akbar has confirmed that schools are looking into cases of bullying that are being reported in the media.

Akbar has also revealed that the Education Ministry is working on a mechanism to deal with cases of bullying in schools.

She says that details of those mechanisms are to be released soon.

We continue to get reports that there is a culture of bullying in some schools which is also encouraged by some parents, teachers and senior students. Their mindset is that the best way to discipline students is through punching them up or instilling other forms of discipline through violence.

There are cases where some teachers and ex‑students have allegedly said that this is the best way to discipline junior students. Some ex‑students of some of the schools have confirmed to Legend FM News that this culture has existed for years.

Two recent cases have indicated that a student after continuous bullying has lost his life and another refuses to go back to school.

In the first case a 16 year old student who was bullied for over a period of time was assaulted and this assault resulted in his death while a 14 year old student refuses to go back to school because of the continuous assault by students.

Both cases came from where the victims were continuously bullied over a period of time.

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