Friday, July 13, 2007

Dilemma of a School Teacher

She is a beautiful girl. But she would use vulgar words on teachers if she is provoked.

That's how students behaved today. They know that they can do it because it would get the teacher angry and lose their cool, do silly things and ultimately be suspended.

They called it student power! Today, we have a different kind of student power. 3-decades ago, the student power is used to deal with political abuses and to protect students'' rights. Now, the students are aware of the attention they get from politicians and PTA. So, they used it and they got the results wanted.

Lim Nien Nie is only 13. She is from SM Raja Lumu in Klang Pandamaran. The teacher scolded her for shouting and using vulgar words at another students. She responded to the teacher with the same "good" manners. Probably, she uses a far "stronger" words on the teacher in order to forward her point to sent clear signals to the teacher. The teacher received her point clearly and unambiguously. The message caused the teacher's nerve to react instantaneously and caught her face. She called it "two punches".

Deputy Education Minister Datuk Noh Omar immediately instructed the teacher to be suspended and advised the parents to engage a lawyer to sue the teacher if they so wished. Nien Nie's father, Lim Kim Chung, 41, then lodged a police report.

If you are a teacher, how would you deal with such students?(exclude the good students and those who behaved well)

Let them be what they are, garbage, or, educate them till they changed for the better?

28 comments:

Helen said...

Maverick, I really got to applaud you for writing this. I've felt this for so long.... I think students' right and children's right has gone too far.

I've personally seen how teachers take the town bus to school because they dare not drive their own car to school for fear they'll get a free makeover.

I think there should be a more balanced directive to deal with all these.

Anonymous said...

I feel there is only one suitable way to prevent similar cases from happening. At the end of each academic year, starting from Form One, all the subject teachers must individually record the behaviour, discipline and work culture of each and every of their students, giving them grades based on 1(extremely bad) to 10(excellent).

The total grades are then added up and the average taken. Those students with scores of below a certain cut-off point, say 3/10, would be placed together in a certain class, say Form 1 Special, where they will be taught by 'veteran' teachers hand-picked by the Principal. Parents of students in these special classes would have to sign letters of guarantee that their children would be expelled within 24 hours upon the slightest misconduct.

This is because not every teacher can control his or her temper when provoked. I should add that students such as Lim Nien Nie, 13, would not had been able to enter secondary school had the 1960s Sec School Entrance Exam not been abolished.

famil said...

spare the rod and spoil the child...

kids are getting spoiler nowadays. last week I saw this kid at the midvalley wearing those annoying shoes with rollers and hit an auntie.

instead of saying sorry, the parents scolded the auntie for not lookign where she was going.. I was aghasted!

Anonymous said...

My neighbor conducts tuition at nite. Sometimes after classes the students will stand outside to wait for transport. This is at about 10 pm. They are loud and the language they use, you just wanna take out soap to wash their mouths. Once we told them off and got told to f*** off by them. And the teacher said they are the same in school. I think teachers deserve "combat" pay on top of salary. And where does the minister comes off telling parents to sue for something like this? Jeez, just let the students run the school, why don't you?

Anonymous said...

Election is NEAR.

Reason : even this pathetic doggy deputy minister Mr N.O also not hesitate to show his ugly face on papers for STUPID PR.

iman said...

That idiot Dep. Minister did not even defend his teacher? What an a*hole! The Teacher's union should kick his back side.

Anonymous said...

If you provoked me with words, it gives me the right to assault you?

If you punch me once, it gives me the right to kill you?

That's all I have to say, use your brains! But I doubt you all have any!

Anonymous said...

Perhaps you all are just similar to everyone in BN (BArbarian Nasional). Or maybe you all just come out from the jungle?

Anonymous said...

Ya...Teachers,

All teachers need to learn smart and be HT.....install video and camera to record and send to DEM Datuk Noh Omar for his pleasure!!!!

Thanks

Anonymous said...

Like father, like son. Like mother, like daughter. Bet you she learnt all those "good" manners from her mother at home. And the minister suspended the teacher? Was there an investigation before the minister told the parents they could sue the teacher?

Where did Noh have his secondary education? SM Lumu?

Anonymous said...

ya the DEM nor should investigate first before suspending the teacher or even before asking the parents to sue. imagine, not defending his own kind. instead terbalik pulak... defended the girl's parents.

we read so many times of a head defending their men, like the rela head, the JAWI head, always defend their men, though we see what they did as obvious wrong. why can't nor be a good head?

Anonymous said...

Noh Omar should first go over Lim Nien Nie's Primary 5 and 6 disciplinary records before suspending the teacher. The vast majority of psycho students were already established mental cases well before they enter secondary school.

A visit to her neighbours would also reveal the level of discipline instilled by her parents who apparently tolerate the 13 year-old's usage of vulgar language. Her distasteful manners if repeated to certain people outside her school would not result only in a couple of punches in her face; she might end up as a corpse.

Anonymous said...

Why is Pak Lah's team endorsing all the wrong values?

Now all the teachers are going to have a tough time enforcing discipline in schools.

Anonymous said...

This just reinforces which party I am going to vote for in the next GE!

Unknown said...

Back when I was in school, there has always been the fear that should we be caned by the HM or the teacher, we could be rest assured that another round of canings would await us should our fathers come to know of this. Carrying this 'no nonsense' attitude of my dad, when my kids were in primary school, I even told the HM that he should not spare the rod on my kids should they step of line. When they went on to secondary school, I was already on the school's Board of Governors and I could see the problems faced by the HM dealing with the uncouthed, unruly ill-disciplined kids. I told my kids since I was on the school Board, they had better behave themselves or they would be, not only getting the medicine from the HM, but getting from me as well.

Bad behaviour from boys are bad enough but coming from girls, this is totally unbecoming. Instead of disciplining the teacher why didn't the Minister and school find ways to discipline the kid. Spare the rod and spoil the child. For me, I feel like putting the girl over my lap and give her the good old English spanking across her butts.

Anonymous said...

Has Noh heard of vicarious liability yet? Sue the Education Department and the government. They can pay. The teacher can't!

Anonymous said...

WHAT TO SAY?? WE CHOOSE THIS GUY TO BE OUR MP, THEN PAKLAH APPOINTED HIM TO BE THE MINISTER, AND WHAT CAN I SAY IT SO HAPPEN THAT THIS GUY IS A VERY STUPID, MORON MINISTER.

OUR COUNTRY IS ON ITS JOURNEY TO DISASTER. MIND THE KID. LET SHE BECOME WHAT SHE WANTS TO BE.

ONE DAY SHE'LL REGRET IT. AND ONE DAY THE PARENT WILL ALSO REGRET IT. RIGHT NOW, I GUESS HER PARENT WANTS THEIR DAUGHTER TO BE A PROSTITUTE.

Anonymous said...

A prostitute who uses vulgar lamguage on her clients will get worse than a couple of punches to her face.

Unknown said...

You guys are pathetic. Punching girls make you feel very manly isit? So, next time if you scold someone else he/she can punch you isit?

What you guys don't understand the difference between discipline students by caning, detention and counseling as opposed to punching, whacking and bullying.

wd, are you a fucking pervert or a paedophile? Spanking the butts while she's on your lap? Makes you feel more horny isit you sick bastard.

You don't like to hear vulgar language isit? So sorry that's the culture of Hokkien and FooChow people. Better than some people formenting hate and violence.

Defend the teacher? My mother is a teacher and she is appalled by the thuggish Noh Omar. Oh yes he was a well established bully many years ago. Now he's brother is facing the gallows.

No wonder students nowadays got no respect for teachers and adults. Because you adults make them sick with your hypocrisy and lies. Yes long line NEP, long live the keris, and long live rascism. Bloody adults, although I am one too.

Unknown said...

Another thing maverick = She called it "two punches". Go and read the Chinese papers for the full story. There were 5 witnesses inside and outside the class who saw the teacher punching the girl and testified to the principle. So I don't know what you are trying to insinuate. Can't read Chinese isit?

Next time, with your attitude I hope when any of your postings offend UMNO Youth, they will come and give you 200 punches. After all if a girl can be punched twice, then you as a adult male can take many more punches, right?

Then he can say, "bloody bloggers power! Now all the bloggers do is bash my beloved UMNO and Ketuanan Melayu." You are a disgrace. Might as well join BN with your kind of attitude.

Not all prostitutes my friend. Some of them are very cozy with gangsters. Maybe its the client who end up dead. People only a 13 year old girl. Can't she make mistakes isit? Can't she learn from wrong isit? And yet you an adult already call her a prostitue. You are the one who is a disgrace man.

Can't imagine a blog that styles itself as anti-government can be so disgusting.

And before I end my rant and kiss this blog goodbye, wd if you so desperate to get a girl to sit on your lap and give you a hard on go to Jalan Alor lar, you pervert.

Anonymous said...

alex, just coach yer 13 yr old daughter to use vulgar language on others, preferably outside the school compound, and yer will be lucky she just ends up as a whore.

Anonymous said...

The teacher should have never allowed emotions to take over reason. Just send the girl to the school head and let that be the school head's problem. Or even better, i'd call her parents up and ask for a meeting.
If the girl was my child, i'd personally take her to the teacher and pass a rotan to the teacher to smack her.
Kids and teachers nowadays are just no hopers.....i cry for malaysia.

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Anonymous said...

i want to lick that girl la ..so cun

Anonymous said...

NOH OMAR IS THE MOST MORONIC JACKASS WE HAD. HE HAVE NOTHING INSIDE HIS HEAD AND HE TALK THRU HIS ASSHOLE. HE SHOULD BE SACKED AND CRUCIFIED.AS A HEAD HE SHOULD BE SUPPORTING HIS SUBORDINATES NOT SLAUGHTER THEM.SEND THE GIRL AND THE PARENTS TO THE GULAG OR GAS CHAMBER.

Anonymous said...

set up microphone and cameras to records any vulgars [of student and teachers too]...

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