Kuala Lampur, Oct. 9 -- Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain. T. Nhaveen. Zara Qairina Mahathir. Yap Shing Xuen. Muhammad Idlan Fareeq Shahril. Irene Sofiya Mohd Khairool Faisal.

Different names. Different years. Different circumstances. Yet each represents a young life lost, a grieving family and a future that will never be realised. As an educator and a mother, I find myself asking an increasingly disturbing question: In our relentless pursuit of academic excellence, have we quietly overlooked the very humanity we are supposed to nurture in our children?

The tragedies involving Zulfarhan and Nhaveen in 2017 should have been a turning point. Nearly a decade later, we are still confronting disturbing incidents of violence and deaths involving stu...