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Trichy: Underlining incidences of child abuse at the hands of teachers, speakers at the ChildLine workshop for school teachers insisted on revealing the incidents to the officials concerned instead of covering up.“Please don’t try to save the perpetrators of child abuse if the abuser is your colleague well-known to you. Instead, teachers should give more attention to them and encourage them to study well,” he said. If a student performs low, the teacher should not treat him/her in such a manner that they lose hope on education. She termed the teachers as mothers of the children in school, and asked them to impart gender equality.A member of child welfare committee (CWC), Trichy, advocate N Krishnamoorthy detailed the role of teachers in ensuring that there are no dropouts from school. If you come to know about the incident as a teacher, it should be reported to the head of the institution or the higher officials..