{"id":1898,"date":"2008-05-12T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T16:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/05\/12\/teacher-absent-more-than-30-days-since-january\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T16:36:11","slug":"teacher-absent-more-than-30-days-since-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/05\/12\/teacher-absent-more-than-30-days-since-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher absent more than 30 days since January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already the school are not playing on level field, now we hear this kind of news!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perak Education Department told to investigate teacher who played truant<\/strong><br \/>\nBy : Syed Umar Ariff<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Sunday\/NewsBreak\/20080511172723\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BATU PAHAT, SUN:<\/p>\n<p>IT&#8217;S usually the students who play truant, but now a teacher is under investigation for cutting class.<br \/>\nDeputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong said today he has told the Perak Education Department to investigate a 43-year-old Tamil schoolteacher from Ipoh, who is said to have skipped more than 30 days of school since January. &#8220;This is absolutely unacceptable,&#8221; he said, adding that the parents of his students are outraged.<\/p>\n<p>He teaches physical education, English, Tamil, mathematics and science.<\/p>\n<p>Wee said if the teacher is found guilty stern action would be taken. He could face dismissal.\u00a0 We only want quality, dedicated teachers. A teacher who would just &#8216;makan gaji buta&#8217; (take a salary without working for it) is not one of them,&#8221; he said. He expects the probe to completed within the next couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already the school are not playing on level field, now we hear this kind of news! Perak Education Department told to investigate teacher who played truant By : Syed Umar Ariff source BATU PAHAT, SUN: IT&#8217;S usually the students who play truant, but now a teacher is under investigation for cutting class. Deputy Education Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","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=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}