from IRIN
When school teacher M. Shihama was put in charge of a class of unruly slow learners earlier this year, her heart sank.
“At first, I was reluctant to take them on,” said the social science teacher at Al-Falah high school in Negombo in the western Gampaha District, fearing they were just troublemakers “But then I found that the children were actually miserable because they had been told they weren’t as good as the others."
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Monday, March 24, 2008
SRI LANKA: Boosting capacity in “psychological first aid”
