{"id":2266,"date":"2008-08-04T23:53:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/08\/04\/legal-action-againts-history-teacher-who-hurls-insult-on-indians\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T23:53:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:53:35","slug":"legal-action-againts-history-teacher-who-hurls-insult-on-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/08\/04\/legal-action-againts-history-teacher-who-hurls-insult-on-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"legal action againts history teacher who hurls insult on indians ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow…can’t believe Star (online version) printed this<\/a>. I wonder what will come out in the print edition tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

No need for some publicity stunt where teacher apologises and gets off with a slap on the wrist.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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

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

The article<\/a> is by Wani Muthiah and Gladys Tay:<\/p>\n

\n

About 500 angry parents and other members of the Indian community
\ngathered outside a secondary school here on Monday to protest racial
\nslurs and abuse allegedly uttered by a teacher against Indian students
\nrecently.<\/p>\n

The crowd began gathering outside SMK Telok Panglima
\nGarang\u2019s main entrance near here at noon and dispersed about two hours
\nlater.<\/p>\n

The headmaster was on leave, so some teachers accepted on
\nhis behalf copies of police reports made by a Form Four student and a
\nForm Five student. According to the police reports, the female history
\nteacher had allegedly called Indian students in a Form Four and a Form
\nFive class \u2018keling pariah\u2019, \u2018Negro\u2019, \u2018black monkeys\u2019 as well as other
\nderogatory names.<\/p>\n

The teacher had also purportedly said that
\n\u2018Indians came from dogs\u2019 and the community members were stupid and
\nprone to thuggery and thievery.<\/p>\n

The police reports also alleged
\nthat the teacher had said that Indians were the \u2018children of
\nprostitutes\u2019 and the community\u2019s youths \u2018did not have testicles\u2019 on
\nJuly 17 and 22, and had also purportedly beaten up some Indians
\nstudents.<\/p>\n

The Form Four student also alleged in his report that
\nthe teacher had written the word \u2018keling pariah\u2019 on the board and lost
\nher cool when the Indian students in the class told her that they did
\nnot like being called names.<\/p>\n

Coalition of Malaysian Indian NGOs
\nsecretary Gunaraj George, who was among those who handed over the
\npolice reports, said that exposure to such abuse would only breed
\nhatred and racial polarisation in schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one in his or her
\nright frame of mind would have said these things. Given this, the best
\noption would be for the teacher to be assigned to a desk job and not be
\nallowed to be near youngsters anymore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong said the schoolteacher might be sacked if the allegations proved true.<\/p>\n

The
\nallegations were serious as no one was allowed to insult others,
\nespecially in a school environment, said Dr Wee, who was asked to
\ncomment on the incident when visiting a nine-year-old accident victim
\nat the Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor Baru.<\/p>\n

He added that the ministry was awaiting an official report before taking any action.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[117,112,19],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-discrimination","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","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=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}