Abuse in Madrassahs
OP - September 18, 2012, 02:28 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19519444Just seen this via butterflies and wheels.
The mother said police had told her that her son's teacher had punched him in the stomach and "slapped his face, and hit his hands with a pencil".
"And he made him stand like a chicken. If he fell down, after five minutes my boy said he made him do another five minutes."
The stress position her son was forced to adopt is a torture tactic used in war zones.
Corporal punishment has been banned in mainstream schools since the 1980s.
However, madrassas are classed as supplementary schools where it is still legal in religious settings as long as it does not exceed "reasonable chastisement".
The schools are unregulated and teachers often have no training.
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
A.A. Milne,
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