Teachers indeed!

Teachers are no longer the teachers they were decades ago in this part of the world. Nor are they expected to be in a country where values and ideals have become a great casualty of avarice and consumerism. Their aberration ranging from sexual predatoriness to ruthless violence perpetrated on tender-aged learners has been capturing more newspaper headlines in recent times than before. In two such separate incidents of mindless cruelty, a senior primary school teacher and another headmaster demonstrated their insanity of the highest order. One forced students of an entire class to slit their own fingers with blades collected from a barber's shop at a nearby bazaar. The other asked his students of the fourth grade to spit on their classmate, a girl student.
In the first case, the lady teacher was reportedly a veteran one who thought it appropriate to punish her student for failing to carry out an instruction of not so grave a nature. So infuriated was she that she ordered a bearer to collect the rejected blades from a barber's shop and gave them one apiece. How dangerous! When the barbers have been using blades for one-time shaving, a teacher uses those for slitting their fingers! Both inhumanity and ignorance at their worst display. Exposed as the students of the class are, what if a few of them get diseases including the most dreaded one, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) from any of the barber's customers! Surely, the teacher's mental health is in question. The authorities have moved to take action against her. They have temporarily suspended her and also served a show-cause notice.
In the other incident, the headmaster wanted to settle his score with the girl's father because they had a dispute with each other over a piece of land and other small matters. So the head of an educational institution felt no qualm about heaping such senseless indignity and humiliation on his enemy's daughter who happened to be his student. In this case, the violence perpetrated was more psychological than physical. When all spat on her, there was one of her class mates who did not take part in the mass spitting.
Now that the news carried in a leading Bangla contemporary drew attention of the higher authorities, several high officials including the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) went to visit the girl's house and led her to the school. The headmaster now sensed the danger and came forward to console her. He assured from that point of time no one would dare spit on her. No, this is no indication he has a change of heart. In front of a UNO, an assistant superintendent of police (ASP) and in-charge of upazila education office, what else he could do?  
Thanks to the deputy commissioner (DC) of the district who instructed his subordinates to move fast and take action against the injustice done to a small soul. The girl though missed one of her school examinations in the meantime. It is because she dared not attend classes or appear in the examinations after repeated incidents of spitting. It is all the headmaster's doing. Now the headmaster must be made to account for what he has done. A friend, philosopher and guide has turned into a vengeful beast who must be punished for the crime he has committed.