{"id":1234,"date":"2008-02-02T01:40:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/02\/short-cut-is-reason-for-students-disqualified\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T23:21:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T15:21:56","slug":"short-cut-is-reason-for-students-disqualified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/02\/short-cut-is-reason-for-students-disqualified\/","title":{"rendered":"short cut is reason for students disqualified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earlier report said that it is due to the <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/29\/no-prize-for-cross-country-winners-for-wearing-shorts\/\">shorts<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Disqualified for short cut, not shorts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/2\/1\/nation\/20199973&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PETALING JAYA: The Education Ministry has clarified that students from a vision school in Kampung Jawa, Klang, were disqualified for taking a short cut during a cross-country race and not for wearing shorts.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy director-general (schools) Datuk Noor Rezan Bapoo Hashim said students had to pass through three checkpoints and collect a band at each point but those who reached the finishing line first only had one band.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It had nothing to do with the students wearing shorts,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, it was reported that students who won a cross-country race did not receive their prizes because they were wearing shorts but those who reached the tape after them were given the prizes, prompting parents to lodge a police report against the school administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earlier report said that it is due to the shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}