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Today’s parents are too soft

Parents with their children Photo:Courtesy

Someone once said, “A child educated only in school is an uneducated child.” How I wish some parents could read and understand this statement or, better yet, put it into action.

The other day, students from a high school disappeared from school only to appear six days later with the sorry excuse that they were being mistreated at school. Apparently, to them, discipline is mistreatment. Why would a student run away from school and disappear for six days because of ‘mistreatment’?

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