ST 23/8 Teacher cuts pupil's hair, mum files police report

[limlim]

Teacher cut student hair… created a big fuss…


Not long ago there was a saga on male photographer cut xmm model’s pubic hair… guess it didn’t even made it to the straits times…

[corneyAmber]

We need to strike a balance as parents. Taking care of our kids is necessary but molly-coddling to the extent of lack discipline, it will come back and haunt us in years to come. Not sure if you read the Chinese national who stabbed his mum 9 times at the airport? His mum loved him unconditionally until he took everything for granted. Sent him to Japan to further his studies but he could never complete, asked for money but his mum was already high and dry by then and he flew back just to stab his mum for not sending him money. It became a demand of rights.


So parents, we gotta be careful to strike that balance.

[corneyAmber]

limlim:

Teacher cut student hair.. created a big fuss..


Not long ago there was a saga on male photographer cut xmm model's pubic hair.. guess it didn't even made it to the straits times..

Maybe because pubic hair is hidden? :siam:

[pinky]

I agreed with what a writer highlighted in the chinese papers: what did the boy

learn from this episode?

[GLORYmum]

The unity saga has focused more on the school, boy’s and the 60 dollars hair cut. Was there much reported on how the boy felt and has learnt from the experience?


Maybe the boy dint bother since it was just another act of defiance except this time blown to full scale by his mum.

[verykiasu2010]

ksi:

limlim:

Teacher cut student hair.. created a big fuss..


Not long ago there was a saga on male photographer cut xmm model's pubic hair.. guess it didn't even made it to the straits times..

Maybe because pubic hair is hidden? :siam:

pubic not public

[AC_Power]

The school has pre-warned the student, if the student failed to comply, why cant the teacher cut the hair? The school apologised? For what?


Like that also lodge report? For what? Police got time to handle such case meh?

[PhoBIA]

I guess the boy learnt from this that there’s no need to listen or respect his teachers.

No need to follow any school rules as his darling mum will shield him by calling the mata…

[ponyo]

actually there are 2 more issues that I find disturbing:


1) I wonder if the mum truly understood the damage of her selfish love for her boy boy. When the ah-boy goes back to school, I am quite sure he will be teased to no end by his other classmates or worse still, even ostracised by his class for giving his teacher/school/principal a bad name. Wouldn’t he feel more stressed and upset and maybe even victimised? If not addressed properly e.g. he grows up blaming everyone including his mum how he turned out, then we have just created a potential problem? no? (machiam those hk/taiwan soap opera, 这不是我的错， 是你们害我这样做的！)

2) Where is the father in this entire episode? Did not the mum consult her hubby before she filed the police report? If yes,how come she is alone answering to the media? Where is the man to support his wife if the decision was collective? Filing a report is not a trivial matter so if the father is not consulted, it does say something about the balance of power in their relationship right?

The boy is in need of a good/strong father figure to grow up to be a man.

[Dreamaurora]

Time for me to wax my philiosophical eloquence :please:


I've read the comments here and some more comments at the other threads. Frankly I am disturbed by some of the comments made and this incident highlights the various degrees parents instill morality in their children.

We form our morality and principle by virtue of observing the positive and negative consequences of people's actions around us. Although our society has placed laws and rules to tell us what is right and what is wrong, we don't exactly based our morality on these laws and rules. For example, let's say that you regularly pirate movies and softwares from the internet. It is clearly a criminal act according to our law. Your children, however, seeing that there is no VISIBLE negative consequences to pirating softwares i.e. arrested and thrown into jail, will deem that pirating software is okay and hence will continue the practice when they become an adult. Our actions will be subconsciously programmed into our children. This is the reason why we are very likely to bring up children the same way our parents brought us up.

Much has been said that moral training should start from home. While I agree this ideally should be the case, it may not be the perfect solution as a lot of parents themselves have questionable morals. How many of us can honestly say we NEVER ever broken a law or rule or act ungraciously before in front our kids? It need not be something drastic such as robbing a bank. It can be subtle actions e.g. speeding on lane 1 in expressway, pirating softwares, jaywalking, using vulgar language, shouting at your maid, etc. Doing all this will send a message to your kids that not all laws and rules need to be respected. Whether we feel the laws and rules are stupid and unnecessary is a moot point; we need to instill respect towards authority in our kids.