{"id":2305,"date":"2008-08-24T00:33:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/08\/24\/racist-teacher-transferred-out-of-state-while-police-is-powerless\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T00:31:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:31:06","slug":"racist-teacher-transferred-out-of-state-while-police-is-powerless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/08\/24\/racist-teacher-transferred-out-of-state-while-police-is-powerless\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist teacher transferred out of state while police is powerless"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">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 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/08\/20\/teacher-who-insulted-indian-community-just-given-warning\/\">warning letter<\/a> was issued But today, the Star <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/8\/23\/nation\/20080823172316&amp;sec=nation\">reported<\/a> Deputy Education Minister Wee Ka Siong saying that the teacher will be transferred out of Selangor next week (when school reopens).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The teacher, who is currently suspended from school and doing<br \/>\nclerical work in the Selangor Education Department, has been undergoing<br \/>\ntwo-week counselling. She has been reprimanded and given a stern warning. The teacher has promised that the incident will not recur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not sure if this the &#8220;we will do it our way&#8221; outcome of MIC.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the police admitted that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Saturday\/National\/2329742\/Article\/index_html\">they cannot act<\/a> against teachers like Ms Rusitah who go about insulting the Indian community, unless they physically harmed the students.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>District criminal investigations department chief Deputy Superintendent<br \/>\nRoslan Ibrahim said no action could be taken against a teacher accused<br \/>\nof verbal abuse.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;When such cases (verbal abuse) are reported, we can only forward it to the Education Department for further action,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>  On  racial slurs, Roslan said it could be categorised as mental abuse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However it would be difficult to charge a teacher suspected of<br \/>\nracially abusing a student unless there is strong supporting evidence<br \/>\nand witnesses who are willing to testify in court,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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). [&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],"tags":[117,112,19,24],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-mic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","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=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}