Hi,
I have sent my son to MMI Pasir Ris for about 2 years. he’s in N2 now. My son has told me that his English teacher (name start with S) has accidentally given him a medicine which belong to his classmate. As both of them has the same surname. As a parent, i’m shocked to hear that this kind of incident has happened in the school. I’m very angry how could the teacher be so careless to give my son other’s child medicine. I have informed the principal (a lady) about this. At first, she was very defensive about it, saying sometimes children do anyhow talk. This makes me more angry and shouldnt she go & investigate it before putting a comment like that. How can she be so judgemental that children do anyhow talks, you mean we shouldnt trust our children when they come back from school tell us about what they did in school or what they eat in school etc?
After she has checked with the teacher, she has told me that the teacher wanted to give my son the medicine but later found out that it was not for him, so only give to the girl. But my son has told me that he actually drink the medicine and it taste a little sweet & bitter and still have some left over on the spoon (if he can describe like that, means he has actually drank it). Also, after confirmed with the sick child parent, the child father told us that his daughter has told him that my son do take the same medicine as hers. So now, the teacher is lying? I believed school teaches children not to lie and giving wrong medication to another child who is not sick it is not a small matter. How could we entrust our children to the school like that. Integrity and responsibility of the teacher is very important.
My message across to parent, if you want to put your son/daughter in this school, you might want to think twice about it? Cos this has affected me and i’m transfering out my son in this school and also dilemma & skeptical whether to put him into another MMI or other school.