Misguided

I suddenly remembered during my school days where parents were more open minded and flexiblealthough many were not highly educated unlike today where we have doctors, engineer and the like. Previously, it was common to hear parents saying to the teachers to use necessary disciplinary tools including the cane if their children become unruly and if it so happened that they were caned at home they would have to bear another beating from their parents! Thus, we seldom heard of children telling their parents that their teachers had used the 'gula - gula panjang' instead the kept and even steadfastly guarded it as if it was a national secret. Yet, we can see nowadays the fruits of such regime where they manage to be somebody today but then everything come to oblivion and they totally forgotten the invalueable lessons from the teachers, their parents and the cane!

Just because we are in the modern world it certainly doesn't mean that the old ways are now obsolete as theso called old ways have shown time and again of their worth. It is very unfortunate today that parents who were once the products of the more simple but effective way of making them realised their mistakes have totally forsaken the way as obsolete and inhumane even. Islam itself permits beating and I slam is not even human made but a revealation from high above - the Almighty but yet others dare to say that it is obsolete and inhumane! We are mere mortals and most of the time we do not see the rationale or benefits of something until it is too late to ameliorate our mistakes.

For sure everyone have seen the film 'Anakku Sazali' and we have seen how unchecked and blind love could ruin us. Parents should remember how they were educated and how such transformed themselves as to what they are today. It is torturous and sad to see some of my colleagues handling disciplinary cases when their hands are tied the most they could do is to issue caution letter one after another until the students have to be expelled and to be re admitted again. The process is just like non stop merry go round and yet the offenders seem oblivious to their mistakes as they keep on repeating thesame without remorse.

The media like the horrible TV3 certainly does not help to correct the situation they without checking the facts keep on blaming the teachers for their inhumane treatments on the students. Every incident involving students to them is newsworthy as they set on a crusade against the teachers. Even if such incidents like fighting happened outside the schools, they subtlety point at teachers. They seem to enjoy defaming those who are the baby sitters of their own children without shame and most of the time are baseless and totally unfair without calling the teachers to defend themselves. They immediately judged the teachers guilty of the offence.

I urge the society to place themselves in theshoes of those teachers and see whether they can endure the continuous barrage of the students for 6 to 8 hourswithout losing their mind. This also goes to the infamous TV3 who seems bent on tarnishing the image of our education system at whatever cost.

"Humans are everything but immortals"