Comments on: How far can you tolerate caning from school teacher

By: zee zee

zee zee — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:02:40 +0000

Caning (with limits) is fine wif me if my kid did something wrong. But forgetting a book? Reprimand her yes. No need to raise yr hand. I remember when my eldest was in primary sch. There was this teacher who was so fierce and pick on every little things. She scares the daylight out of him tat he actually was vomiting and complain of tummy ache. Took him to Doc. thinking some virus attack. Surprise surprise, doc actually told me its all in his mind and enquire abt his sch. I korek korek bit by bit frm my son. Tats how I found out. (no wonder he was reluctant to go to sch prior few days b4 tat). Spoke to d teacher (my son was begging me not to) to let her knw of my son condition. Not to cast blame but for her to understand. She was so defensive n started to raise her voice. Kept my calm n told her, am not blaming but for her to knw what my son is going thru’. N u knw wat she changed after tat. She was so much nicer.
Teachers those days and nowadays are way way different. They r so stress bunch nowadays tat they take it out on d kids without good reasoning. Am not saying all teachers but sadly, most of them are.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:30:58 +0000

Kesian, princess… I don’t condone caning at school, epecially in public. If there policy is to cane for some specific disciplinary problem, it should be in private and accompanied by counseling. I don’t think that forgetting to bring a book to school deserves caning.

By: just me

just me — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:42:46 +0000

I guess your daughter is in a Chinese school where the culture of caning a student is a normal thing to do. A friend of mine whose son has been caned before did approach one such teacher and was told ” You can always send your son to another school.”

By: sasha

sasha — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:01:15 +0000

finally i can come to your blog officially and comment. (i used to work in yr sis’ company ..thats why ;)). anyway abit susah also la. Approach the teacher…susah. Don’t approach then we feel susah. How? SUSAH LAH!

By: fishingman

fishingman — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:48:13 +0000

Hi have not been here a while, sorry to hear about your daughters episod.
IMHO it not a really big deal. Nothing compared to what we went through. She’ll probably be more careful when packing her bag next time as well.

But I do think that chinese school teachers are a bit too much in using the cane! I still remember those char kuey teow, sin chow mai etc etc from the chinese class teacher. If you put a mask over the bugger’s head he’s probably look like Zorro! I doubt using the cane so much will hepl the students remember better, instead it’ll make them terrified to go to class. Can’t learn much in class when your shaking with fear now can we?
There’s still a certain standard 5 teacher who like to pinch our midsection till bleeding sometimes that I’ll like to settle the score with. Hmph!

By: Immomsdaughter

Immomsdaughter — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:47:25 +0000

Aiyo, I had wanted to write a similar post. Yes, I cane my kids but I am also not happy/upset my Ryan, also 7 y/o like your princess gets caned at school. Yep, he got caned because he did not bring his book too. And another occassion he got caned on the leg because he was too noisy or naughty.

What gives the teacher the right to cane? And I am like you too, I fear when I complain, I’ll open up more opportunities for my son to be bullied And yes again, my son is also in Gov’t school so cannot expect to much *sigh*

The Queen says: *hold hand and cry* I think we are in the same boat. Hopefully our child will be better after all these caning. *sigh…

By: velverse

velverse — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:21:08 +0000

Well… hhehehe… sounds like a difficult position.
At times it is the job of a good & bad cop. Like when I was a kid… my mum will be the good cop while my dad will be otherwise.
I guess that sorta brings the balance.

Then again, I guess the caning gives a good lesson for your princess will be more alert. At times we must actually learn from mistakes

Well, I sorta blame the DHA in milks which causes childrens to be hyperactive and uncontrolable hence.. at times, I really do agree on caning kids… but then again.. not to the extend of torturing them lar.

Sigh… Hard to be parents hor? That is why my mama always say.. “wait till you be a mama yourself, then you know”.

By: Iris

Iris — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:05:25 +0000

I got no kids yet. Wahaha!! I am working in government sector where we train all teachers in Singapre. All government schools are under government control. As for private school infact they are not as strict.

Teachers are scare to canne students cos if the parents not happy they will bring the matters up to the TV station and unknowingly the teacher will became famous overnight. Heehee…

I guess Malaysia not as strict la. As i truly und how ppl work thr.

I truly und your dilemma… I guess got to take it lor ya..

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:53:41 +0000

Jessie,

After I read tat the Princess’ teacher caned those who’s forgetful and not those who are lazy, then I think u shld at least speak to the teacher abt ur concern. I am not against punishment per se, but it seems like the teacher is not good at giving the right punishment.

But then again, I think such things shld be an issue dealth by adults and not let princess know tat she’s gotten the wrong punishment. Otherwise in future, these children will always doubt if the teacher is right to punish them and it’ll be hard to make them learn their mistake.

Btw, I’m speaking in the context of a Singaporean and it’s purely my personal view on how I wan my child to learn

By: sila

sila — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:26:30 +0000

poor princess!

i’m not against moderate corporal punishment, but i think maybe caning a 7 year old for forgetting her book is a bit much la. hope she takes this as a lesson, and will try her best to remember to bring her book from now on!

The Queen says: Sila, can you help me to ask your mom for her opinion? Oh, and please say hi to her too