What's happening to our schools today?
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What's happening to our school today?
A good question to ask ourselves. Malaysia has gone so far in terms of its development and technological advancement. But, what remains unfix, unsettled and shameful is the attitude of the citizen here. ( read pride and shame of being Malaysian )
Over the past few months, the number of headlines highlighting the 'good act' of teachers in the country has not been few. From time to time, we see yet another case of teacher being brought to court, teacher slapped by headmaster in school, students got canned, student got slapped on the face by teacher, and teacher killed.
Yesterday saw yet another case of a warden punishing 200 SMK Bawang Assan girls in the pond under heavy rain. What could possibly be on in the warden's mind when he/she executed such punishment? Is he/she out of his mind or is he/she purely satisfied of his/her act?
If you read the comments on this is shocking blog, you'll hear comments suggesting teachers and wardens should not behave such unprofessionally. Instead, they should take on positive punishments like punishing them to clean the toilet etc etc etc.
But, here's my point:
Truly, the culprit is at fault and should be punished. But what’s obvious was that she didn’t admit her guilt, resulting in unworthy punishment for all girls. This is so wrong a thing to do.
Yet, we can’t just judge the news by its surface. This might not be the first time the warden encounter a clogged toilet bowl of sanitary pad.
The fact that the warden got so furious and irrational might possibly be caused by the many encounters of such incident.
And as Kiu in the news pointed out, “I think the warden was angry as it is expensive to fix a clogged toilet.” I think he has a point there , mainly because broken or clogged toilets in schools are often left unrepaired besides taking a long, slow, circuitous manoeuvre to repair them (i've seen this happening hundred times in my hostel here yet NOTHING has been done).
Yet, what’s said by many of us here is very true. Education, as remarked by Lynda Yong, raises students’ awareness of the importance of hygiene and cleanliness in school as well as at home.
As adults, we need to be patient and be able to control our emotions, particularly when dealing with kids’ misbehavioural problems. A lack of any of these will result in dark cases like this.
Let this be a lesson to all.
posted by Nicky @ 5:14 PM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
indeed, it is quite outrageous. seems that the anger of the teacher caused her to lose logical reasoning at the spur of the moment. i do agree with you on the issue of having self-control especially when dealing with kids.
another thing that showed her lack of control was her side of the story, (which by the way, does not really justify her decision of that punishment). She mentioned that she only decided to punish them for 5 minutes, but since the girls were chit-chatty, so the punishment was prolonged.
that seems to me that she is making a decision based on her emotions.
on the other hand, a comment on the post in "The Monster Blog" struck me:
"It’s hard to be a teacher these days. One is constantly under the spot light. A mistake is what it needs to destroy one’s reputation despite a hundred good deeds in the past."
it was thought-provoking as i suddenly realised that many a times, we only see the mistakes made by people and forget the good that they have done. not only for teachers, but life in general.
i then felt a tinge of sympathy for her. anyway, sympathy doesn't mean that agreement with her action.
hopefully a fair and just action will be taken on the teacher. and indeed, from this whole case, hopefully people are more aware of issues of clogged toilets and hygiene etc..
ps: this sort of issue actually do happen in NZ too. two years ago, i read the paper about issues of student punishment and such. they were not very humane punishments either :)
Let's all learn from this...
thanks for the post Nick!
Hrmm actually the whole pond incident thingy have been greatly exaggerated, facts are being twisted lah~ haiya lazy to explain but if u ask the more kepo senior sibu teachers they will know lah the whole story... tatz y STU still defended that warden and the parents even students forgave her. As for other incidents like teachers cincai slap slap students, that mayb they veli tension oredi~ owes courses, bengkel, paperwork, PEKA PEKA so they go cuckoo and take it out on the kids. Hey, teachers are human too and we r semi professional- so the other half tak professional one is the part whr we tend to go cuckoo.
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