ST 23/8 Teacher cuts pupil's hair, mum files police report
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articles so true, let me bookmark that…
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hi Larau02,
thank for sharing -
i couldnt stand kids who constantly challenges their parents, or teachers worse… sorry to say i wouldnt know how to teach them correctly too… its the accumulated kind of behaviour that ppl around him has implant in him that made them challenge the adults…
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verykiasumummy:
i couldnt stand kids who constantly challenges their parents, or teachers worse... sorry to say i wouldnt know how to teach them correctly too... its the accumulated kind of behaviour that ppl around him has implant in him that made them challenge the adults..
Talking back - is what my mom's generation used to say. Rarely hear parents complaining about it these days. Who's heard this: Tee Kee, jiao geh, xiam loh gai ou jiao!
:shock: 'jiao' again! :siam:
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of cos there is… plenty in the sch… i see them quite frequent whenever i fetch my kids from sch…
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concern2:
verykiasumummy:
i couldnt stand kids who constantly challenges their parents, or teachers worse... sorry to say i wouldnt know how to teach them correctly too... its the accumulated kind of behaviour that ppl around him has implant in him that made them challenge the adults..
Talking back - is what my mom's generation used to say. Rarely hear parents complaining about it these days. Who's heard this: Tee Kee, jiao geh, xiam loh gai ou jiao! :shock: 'jiao' again! :siam:
I heard every single one of these from my mom.
your \"jiao\" here is still safe when broken up and translated individually
unlike vlim's \"par\" & \"jiao\"
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all these are the very familiar "scoldings" from our parents… i dun use them on my kids now… i use either eng or chi only…
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kids now don't know a single word of dialect... sad coz they don't experience that sense of fun and camaraderie when we speak similar dialect to others.
When my DH and I want to \"criticise\" my DS and it's not for his ears, we'll use our Cantonese and Hokkien dialect. :evil: -
Lilac66:
haha same here.... except that my dialect is also limited edition only... haha...kids now don't know a single word of dialect... sad coz they don't experience that sense of fun and camaraderie when we speak similar dialect to others.
When my DH and I want to \"criticise\" my DS and it's not for his ears, we'll use our Cantonese and Hokkien dialect. :evil: -
the haircut mum is once again mentioned...
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/the-ugly-singaporean-parent----demanding--unreasonable--self-centred.html
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Often displaying a warped sense of what is wrong and right, these pushy parents come down hard on any educator who dares mess with their kid, even if the latter is wrong.
\"Haircut mum\" has thrown the spotlight on both the kinds of demands placed upon educators and the sky-high expectations of parents.
To recap, Serene Ong filed a police complaint after a Unity Primary school teacher re-trimmed her boy's S$60 haircut despite several warnings by the school to keep his hair tidy.
\"There is absolute no right or wrong in this matter,\" said Madam Ong, after her son's case was highlighted by Education Minister Heng Swee Keat at an education seminar recently.
One might say the above example demands a re-look at current school rules and discipline. What, for example, does it matter if a student's hair \"covers his ears\" or \"touches his collar\"? But that's for another day.
What's more frightening is the sense of entitlement some parents have.
Consider these.
A teacher at a government-aided mixed school in the East told Yahoo! Singapore a parent of her Sec 3 pupil tried to pay her extra money to focus more on her son in class.
\"When I told her 'no', she said she would complain that I had neglected his progress and ask that he be put in another class,\" she said.
Another teacher, 37, who has been teaching over a decade, recounted how she had let slip in class that she was a Tampines Junior College alumni.
\"The next thing I knew, parents of three girls had written in to the principal to say that I was not fit to teach at the school and they wanted me transferred out,” she said.
“I was so hurt and angry. The parents only want teachers from brand-name schools teaching their brand-name children,” she added.
A former teacher with 27 years' experience shared how a parent had demanded that his daughter be allowed to eat anytime of the day, claiming that she had a gastric problem. He filed a police report against her art teacher and wrote letters to the Prime Minister and senior management at MOE when she was not allowed to eat in the art room.
In a separate instance, she also recounted how a parent volunteer filed a report with the MOE to investigate the school for misappropriating resources when her son didn't receive drinks donated by another parent at a school cross-country run.
So who are these pushy parents exactly?
Several educators we spoke to said they're likely to be university-educated, well-to-do and stay in private housing.
What kind of society and what kind of human beings are we raising our kids to be?
Our education blogger, Daniel Wong, recently wrote that parents cannot shirk the responsibility of raising their own children and instilling in them the right morals and values.
\"Are you an excellent role model for your child? Do you show respect and honour for everyone you interact with, regardless of their social status? Are you always in control of your emotions?\"
I couldn't agree more.
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