EIGHT years ago, Maznah Yusak received a call from a Primary 6 pupil telling her he wanted to commit suicide after a fight with his brother.
“I panicked. To buy time, I stayed with him on the phone and made him direct me to his home,” the 56-year-old mathematics head of department and school discipline mistress at Chong-zheng Primary School said.
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