Editorial Desk :The suspected killer of schoolgirl Suraiya Akhter Risha was caught at Domar in Nilphamari by local traders on Wednesday and was handed over to a team of RAB and police. His arrest has created a sense of relief among us. Though we know it very well that Risha is lost from us for ever. We can hope that the suspected killer will get due punishment by law for his cruel misdeed. But what about inhumanly negligent behaviour of Willes Little Flower School management?According to media report the ill-fated victim who was an eight-grader of Willes Little Flower School and College was stabbed in the abdomen by a stalker in front of her educational institution at Kakrail in the capital on August 24. She died from her wounds at Dhaka Medical College Hospital four days later. The perpetrator, a tailoring shop worker, used to stalk and disturb Suraiya and stabbed her on that day while she was crossing the foot overbridge to go home.The school management was aware of Risha’s case. But, as reported they felt no obligation to help the child fighting for her life. Helpless and inexperienced fellow students rushed her from hospital to hospital for medical care. After the incident Risha’s schoolmates took her inside the campus not knowing how to help. No teacher or nobody from management thought it necessary to accompany the injured girl for arranging medical treatment. This kind of inhumanity in a highly expensive children educational institution must not be condoned. We admire the children’s desperate efforts to help their classmate victim who could not be saved.We are tolerating inhumanity in many spheres our life but it is too much to see our innocent child student die for lack of attention by the school teachers or the management authority. When teachers cannot show human considerations what human beings they want to create through education of our children. We do not want education by teachers who have no respect for human values. They are simply careless money earners not worthy to be teachers.Previously, a student of this school committed suicide by jumping from the roof because of unsympathetic behaviour of the teachers. Her family was disrupted as her mother died and father married for second time.We are surprised that guardians also did not go into action against the inhumanity of the school authority. The children are sent to school to be in the care of the school. Every school must have a students welfare office for providing urgent medical facility.It has become very ordinary and routine thing to blame police for delay in arresting the culprit. Is it really of much importance whether a murderer is immediately arrested or not. The important thing should be the question why the life could not be saved and for whose negligence. In the case of Risha our belief is — her life could have been saved if timely treatment was possible. She was bleeding when she was taken from one hospital to another.The guardians of the students must take up the matter seriously to know how the school is run and is it safe to send children where no human atmosphere exists. Our education system has already earned the reputation of neglecting human values and a sense of responsibility. But let nobody dare to ignore the safety of our children at schools.
