Neither teachers nor students feel safe in school, according to a new report on school-based violence released this week by the South African Human Rights Commission. Some schoolgirls are exchanging sexual favors for good grades, or “sexually transmitted marks.” The school system is losing thousands of teachers a year due to psychological and physical abuse by students, the report says.
Children’s games have taken on a whole new dimension, with some 7-year-olds playing “hit me, hit me” and “rape me, rape me”, games in which schoolchildren chased and pretended to hit or rape one another.
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