2nd grader suffers fractured finger
A seven-year-old boy, student of second grade, had his finger fractured after a teacher at his school in Brahmanbaria town allegedly hit him with a metal ruler yesterday.
Rahid, the injured young boy, said his teacher Nur-e-Alam became upset and started hitting him with the metal object after he failed to solve a mathematics problem during class at Annada Government High School.
Assistant Teacher Nur-e-Alam teaches Islamic Studies at the school.
After Rahid’s middle finger in his right hand started to bleed, senior students from the school took him to nearby Brahmanbaria General Hospital.
Syed Ariful Islam, a doctor at the hospital, confirmed that they gave treatment to Rahid for fracture and cuts in the middle finger of his right hand.
While at the hospital, the young boy appeared quite shaken up. The teacher’s assault on him before his classmates seemed to be worrying him more than his injuries. “Sir [Nur-e Alam] beat me up in front of all my classmates,” a teary-eyed Rahid said.
Reached over phone for his comments, Nur-e Alam claimed, “I didn’t hit the kid that way. He had an old cut in the finger.”
The school’s headteacher, Farida Nazmin, sided with Nur-e Alam over her young student’s accusation. “The boy is a bit naughty. The teacher didn’t hit him. He [Rahid] had injured himself.”
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