“In history once again, at the end of the class, the teacher made the boy apologize to me in front of the whole class. He said sorry, but I felt like it was not meaningful. The teacher made him explain why he was sorry, but he didn’t seem to understand why. That just made me feel miserable. It made me never want to show my face again.” — Rahama
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