Another week coming to an end but this week marks our first ever Friday prayer at the musolla headed by Ust. Marzuki. It was heartening to see most of the hostel's residents as well as the staffs' children turned for the prayer. What made it more memorable was the khutbah or sermon by Ust. Marzuki himself. He shared his insights on the significance of respecting and valuing the contributions or the mere presence of parents in our life. Among others he said that everyone should take the efforts to care for our parents and the need to show our appreciations to them at all times. While some may view such as trivial and a non issue but it really got to me thinking about my parents. I felt that although I had not abandon or forgetting them but I have not done enough for their endless sacrifices.
On similar note, Buletin Utama tonight highlighted the plights and sacrifices by Southern Thai teachers by starting with the phrase while our education system is beleaguered with blown out of proportion matters, those in Southern Thai faced with even serious matters like losing their lives for the sake of educating the children. Their opening was indeed a sarcasm of teachers who aren't willing to do more sacrifices even to the extent of suing parents for false accusations.
While admitting that we are lucky enough to earn our living in a peaceful surroundings but such insinuation was something uncalled for. Comparing us with the chaotic Southern Thai was a step backward. Looking at what are happening in Malaysia nowadays, teachers who are only humans are facing with tremendous challenges to oversee that our education system manages to produce high quality human capitals. Teachers nowadays are prone against attacks by selfish quarters. They want the best for their children but at the same time will not even tolerate disciplining unruly behaviour of their children. Compared to the old days, students nowadays have become more and more unmanageable due to various and sometimes irrational restrictions.
If we compare ourselves to our parents we'll see a stark contrast whereby they are more resilient and resourceful than even our graduates. Students nowadays have no backbones as they are to dependent on assistance while at the same time are spoiled by overprotecting parents. They will not tolerate teachers disciplining their children as what they have experienced themselves. Because of the harsh but fair treatment of the old regime now they managed to become functioning human beings. They aspire to see the children to achieve excellence in their studies but they forget that academic excellence is far from sufficient. Just look at our corruption rates, this should serve as an undeniable proof that academic excellence is inadequate if there's no discipline. Islam itself allow some kind of physical punishment if eligible children fail to perform prayers and even matured women too are liable for such if they become unruly.
Instead, man made laws forbid such 'harsh' treatments on the basis that such are detrimental to the mental well being of the children. Disciplinary teachers nowadays have become toothless tigers where they could not even flogged unruly students without written authorisation. Public canning is now out of the question as it will make maters even worse. It might be true but what happen nowadays are mind boggling and excessively irrational.
Buletin Utama should check their facts before publishing degrading views against teachers. Even over packed classes seemed to be the teachers' fault. Tonight, there was also a coverage on a head prefect being beaten by students bandits while performing his duties. Let see whether TV3 will sensationalised later by sating such is the fault of teachers because there was no supervision by teachers. TV3 seems to be on a crusade against teachers nowadays preferring to air biased opinions while shutting down the views of those being aggrieved by such coverage. Giving them the doubts, they may have terrible experiences with their teachers and now they are taking revenge for the 'unfair' treatment they once experienced.
Getting tired of Buletin Utama's madman news reporting
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