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Singapore’s answer to school bullying? The cane … and counselling

South China Morning Post
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Singapore’s answer to school bullying? The cane … and counselling
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For six months, Adriana Lim Escano’s teenage son went to school and said nothing. He had tried to do the right thing – stepping in when a group of boys bullied a classmate – and paid for it with half a year of misery, name-calling and social isolation.
His mother only found out when another parent called to say her son had voiced suicidal thoughts to a friend.
The school’s response, when it finally came, was a talking-to from the discipline committee. No suspensions. No meaningful...

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