Wow…can’t believe Star (online version) printed this. I wonder what will come out in the print edition tomorrow.

If this can be proven, the teacher must be sacked. Nothing less is demanded. For a FEMALE HISTORY teacher, its unforgivable. ISA is also an option to be further explored.

The parents must also initiate legal action. Many lawyers (HINDRAF, Pakatan, and BN) should waiting with glee at this opportunity. I love to see Kavyeas or Murugesan take on this path if the parents and students are interested. Dare or not? A hefty fine is expected. About RM10 million will do. The money can be used to set up fund for the school’s students.

No need for some publicity stunt where teacher apologises and gets off with a slap on the wrist.

I doubt that this is a simple matter blown up or even false information because it happened in class, in front of many students. Judging from the report, it happened more than once.

I also wonder how can a female teacher hit secondary school students. Isn’t such powers only given to discplinary teachers and headmasters?

Is it a case of provocation by students until the teacher erupted? Still, it highly improbable that it can happen on two different days.

The article is by Wani Muthiah and Gladys Tay:

About 500 angry parents and other members of the Indian community
gathered outside a secondary school here on Monday to protest racial
slurs and abuse allegedly uttered by a teacher against Indian students
recently.

The crowd began gathering outside SMK Telok Panglima
Garang’s main entrance near here at noon and dispersed about two hours
later.

The headmaster was on leave, so some teachers accepted on
his behalf copies of police reports made by a Form Four student and a
Form Five student. According to the police reports, the female history
teacher had allegedly called Indian students in a Form Four and a Form
Five class ‘keling pariah’, ‘Negro’, ‘black monkeys’ as well as other
derogatory names.

The teacher had also purportedly said that
‘Indians came from dogs’ and the community members were stupid and
prone to thuggery and thievery.

The police reports also alleged
that the teacher had said that Indians were the ‘children of
prostitutes’ and the community’s youths ‘did not have testicles’ on
July 17 and 22, and had also purportedly beaten up some Indians
students.

The Form Four student also alleged in his report that
the teacher had written the word ‘keling pariah’ on the board and lost
her cool when the Indian students in the class told her that they did
not like being called names.

Coalition of Malaysian Indian NGOs
secretary Gunaraj George, who was among those who handed over the
police reports, said that exposure to such abuse would only breed
hatred and racial polarisation in schools.

“No one in his or her
right frame of mind would have said these things. Given this, the best
option would be for the teacher to be assigned to a desk job and not be
allowed to be near youngsters anymore,” he said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong said the schoolteacher might be sacked if the allegations proved true.

The
allegations were serious as no one was allowed to insult others,
especially in a school environment, said Dr Wee, who was asked to
comment on the incident when visiting a nine-year-old accident victim
at the Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor Baru.

He added that the ministry was awaiting an official report before taking any action.