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Racist teacher transferred out of state while police is powerless

August 24th, 2008
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Earlier, we had the community fuming at the lackadaisical attitude shown by those responsible in punishing the teacher who insulted the Indian community. Only a warning letter was issued But today, the Star reported Deputy Education Minister Wee Ka Siong saying that the teacher will be transferred out of Selangor next week (when school reopens).

He clarified that this was past of the disciplinary measures decided upon completion of the investigation. One then has to wonder why this punishment was not revealed earlier together with the warning letter.

The teacher, who is currently suspended from school and doing
clerical work in the Selangor Education Department, has been undergoing
two-week counselling. She has been reprimanded and given a stern warning. The teacher has promised that the incident will not recur.

Not sure if this the “we will do it our way” outcome of MIC.

Meanwhile, the police admitted that they cannot act against teachers like Ms Rusitah who go about insulting the Indian community, unless they physically harmed the students.

District criminal investigations department chief Deputy Superintendent
Roslan Ibrahim said no action could be taken against a teacher accused
of verbal abuse.

“When such cases (verbal abuse) are reported, we can only forward it to the Education Department for further action,” he said.

On racial slurs, Roslan said it could be categorised as mental abuse.

“However it would be difficult to charge a teacher suspected of
racially abusing a student unless there is strong supporting evidence
and witnesses who are willing to testify in court,” he said.

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Teacher who insulted Indian community just given warning

August 20th, 2008
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Ca you, the reader, honestly ask yourself that if the race of teacher and students was reversed, would the outcome be the same?The teacher was given administrative warning, meaning like a show-cause letter which will be recorded in her personal file. Future promotions and other benefits/opportunities may be restricted or denied based on the blotch on her career. In public service, there are few levels of punishment – letter, suspension of pay rise, suspension of work, demotion and finally sacking. Thus the person was given the most lenient punishment possible for a crime which threatened national harmony.

However as temporary measure, the teacher was placed in Selangor education department’s counseling unit where a counselor will be working with her (how long?).

The Star reported that “educationdirector-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom said the Selangor education
department’s disciplinary committee investigated the case by calling those involved including the teacher and students.”

Alimuddin said the Selangor education department’s disciplinary committee decided that the teacher be given the warning.

“The ministry regrets the incident which occurred during a class at the school on July 18. It also caused dissatisfaction among the parents at the school,” said Alimuddin.

The ministry, he added, regarded the case as solved and hoped all parties would not raise the issue again.

Ha! the famous words – ” regarded the case as solved and hoped all parties would not raise the issue again”. That means message to close the mouth and keep it that way.

However, I hope the parents will persist with legal action. I’m sure many people will come forward to help fund the legal costs. Anyway, I doubt lawyers from MIC/DAP/Gerakan/PKR/PAS/MCA/PPP etc would want to charge any fee. Wait a minute, no one from the political parties is representing the aggrived group? Maybe ex-MIC fellas like Vigneswaran want to grab this opportunity? 🙂

BTW, if found guilty by the court (fined or imprisoned), the teacher will be automatically sacked.

I’ll continue later.

 

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Selangor MB supports UiTM for all

August 11th, 2008
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well, this won’t go down well with the myopic few. Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim said that he agrees with suggestion by state executive councillor for higher
education Dr Halimah Ali, who said there was nothing wrong in opening
up UiTM to non-Bumiputeras. He went further to suggest that 10% of the places are reserved for non-Bumiputeras and foreign students (something like matriculation).

He said the move would be timely as it followed the changes in the education system. At the same time, it would give early exposure to UiTM students to be more friendly towards other races.

“UiTM was set up to uplift Malays and Bumiputeras from Sabah and Sarawak in the education sector. This effort must continue.

“But at the same time, UiTM should think more globally to ensure their graduates are more friendly with people of different races in the nation.”

He said inter-ethnic interaction was crucial for UiTM graduates as they would be better prepared to step into the working world, which was far different from life as they knew it.

I can guess that the responses will be – “there are many other ways to create inter-ethnic interactions, why pick on UiTM”, “number of students in UiTM small compared to private colleges/universities, so not much effect”, “over my dead body”, “don’t dare to question our rights”, “normal Malaysians won’t be interested to join UiTM”, etc etc.

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Murugiah says teacher to be transferred but parents unhappy

August 6th, 2008
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I got to know that Deputy Minister in PM’s Dept, Murugiah was at the school yesterday along with angry and unhappy parents. Never heard anything from the sole guardian of the Indian community our beloved Samy Vellu. Maybe he has more pressing concerns involving RM70 million.

As expected, the teacher (I have got the name, Rusitah Abu Hassan, and photo, but unauthenticated) has “apologised” and Murugiah says the teacher will be transferred. He said disciplinary action will be recommended, but I think after a week it will be all quiet.

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator T. Murugiah accompanied by few of his Public Complaints Bureau staff, who visited SMK Telok Panglima Garang yesterday,said the teacher regretted the incident and had apologised to the students. He said the issue was now considered closed and advised members of the Indian community
as well as parents of the affected students to accept the teacher’s apology.

She also said that she did not expect things to become so serious and has agreed to be transferred to another school.

It is still unknown if his head was working well when he was at the school. This is because the community is fuming and this deputy minister tries to sweep the mess under the carpet.

The Star reports that relatives of the affected students as well as the members of the Telok Panglima Garang Indian community refused to regard the matter as closed.

“She must make a public apology as she insulted all Indians and be transferred to a desk job and not
allowed to teach anymore,” said the group’s spokesman S. Muthamil Selvan.

Coalition of Malaysian Indian NGOs secretary Gunaraj George concurred and said his organisation was preparing a memorandum on the matter to be presented to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

As I mentioned earlier, legal action must be taken. We can’t trust the discplinary action nor the teacher’s apology. So far, no lawyer had come forward yet. Let’s see if there are only cowards in these political parties. If the parents want to go ahead, I’m confident that many people will contribute financially to support their legal action. Let this be a warning to all those who serve to “disrupt national unity and harmony” – as our ministers so fondly like to say. Or does it apply to certain groups only?

If you check the school’s website, under sesi pagi, there are 3 Indian teachers listed (Cik Vijayavaney A/P W.V. Richard, Pn Gunadevi A/P Rajadurai, En Nadarajan A/L Thambu). Nadarajan teaches Moral, so perhaps he can give his views. Hopefully all of them will give some comments. Btw, the violent racist teacher’s name is also there I believe.

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Malaysiakini report on teacher who insulted and beat Indian students

August 5th, 2008
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This time Star and NST beat Malaysiakini to the news. The story on teacher who beat and insulted Indians only appeared today at 2pm, while NST and Star versions appeared much earlier.

Some of the article is reproduced below:

Two police reports have been lodged against a secondary school History teacher for allegedly uttering racial slurs against Indian students. The reports, lodged by two students from SMK Telok Panglima Garang last Friday, stated that a female history teacher had allegedly called Indian students ‘keling pariah’, ‘Negro’ and ‘black monkeys’, amongst other derogatory names.

In the report, the Form Four and Form Five student said the teacher purportedly told students during class that ‘Indians came from dogs’, Indians are ‘children of prostitutes’ and the community is stupid. They also allege that teacher had said the community youth ‘did not have testicles’, ‘always menstruates’ and indulged in thuggery and theft.

The teacher in the Hulu Langat school had also purportedly beaten some Indian students and punished them with push ups if they were late for class. The Form Four student in his report said students were “ashamed and embarrassed” by these incidents.

“She told the Indian students to stand up and said she wanted to test how we would react to the word ‘keling pariah’. “We said we did not like it and she raised her voice and repeatedly called us ‘keling pariah’ and wrote the words on the blackboard,” his report stated.

Meanwhile, the school when contacted, said they were not permitted to give a statement as the matter is currently being investigated by the police.

Its headmaster Nordin Bin Saad is on leave and was not available for comment.

Tamil dailies today reported that about 1,000 angry parents and members of the public gathered at the school yesterday to show their anger against the teacher.

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