Two Students Forced To Wear Bells, Eat Grass And Treated Like Cows By An English Teacher
A Year Two English teacher has come under fire after forcing 2 of his students to wear cow bells and act like cows for forgetting their homework.
By Sadho Ram — 26 Jan 2014, 03:08 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
Two Year Four boys were made to wear bells around their neck and “offered” grass to eat as punishment for not doing their homework at a vernacular school here
Two Year Four pupils from SJKC Khai Meng are claiming that they were made to wear bells around their necks like cows by a teacher for not doing their homework.
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Their parents claimed that the teacher had also asked them to pull grass from the field and asked the boys to eat it on Thursday.
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A group of pupils in their classroom at a Malaysian Chinese school.
Image via themalaymailonline.comWorse, after the lesson was over, the pupils’ class teacher saw the boys and allegedly mocked: “Since when did I have two additional cows in my class?”
The 9am incident on Thursday allegedly happened at SJK (C) Khai Meng after both pupils were caned twice by their English teacher for not passing up their homework
During recess time, the same teacher plucked grass and allegedly told the boys to eat it or get another 10 strokes of the rotan. The boys refused but were spared from further caning.
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This was related by a mother and a guardian of the two 10-year-old boys at a press conference at a public hall in Taman Permai here yesterday.
One of the two boys, Muhammad Naswinder Muhammad Hamid, was also present.
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His classmate, Mohd Izat Iqbal Mohd Harith, was said to be too distraught over the incident to talk to anyone.
thestar.com.myTheir families lodged police reports on the matter on Friday. The school’s headmistress declined to comment and barred reporters from entering the school.
Naswinder’s uncle, Muktasim Hashim, said the teacher had gone overboard in disciplining the children. “He had caned the boys twice each before that, but chose to humiliate them by making them wear bells around their necks and calling them cows in front of the class,” he said.
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“If that was not bad enough, he took pictures of them on his mobile phone and threatened to post them on Facebook before asking the boys to eat grass or get another 10 strokes of the rotan,” Muktasim was quoted as saying today.
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While the boys were eventually spared from eating grass, Muktasim said his family was demanding that the teacher be transferred to another school.
thestar.com.myThe 25-year-old teacher was said to have apologised but the families have called for him to be transferred out
“The teacher apologised when we met him at the police station yesterday but that is insufficient and in no way remedies the situation.
“We want him transferred out immediately.”
Yarnis Kasuma Dewi, mother of Mohd Izat Iqbal showing the police report she made during the press conference.
Image via thestar.com.myHousewife Yarnis Kasuma Dewi Zainal Ariffin said she had enrolled her son Mohd Izat Iqbal Mohd Harith in a Chinese school so that he could learn a different language.
thestar.com.my“The teacher should be made to leave as it is he who had done wrong. I will not transfer my son to any other school.
“Why should he be penalised and denied the chance at an education in the Chinese medium due to someone else's mistake?” she asked, noting that SJKC Khai Meng was the only Chinese primary school here.
thestar.com.myState Education Department director Muhamad Roli Hassan said he had asked the Batang Padang district education office to look into the matter, adding that he was awaiting a full report
Meanwhile, Tanjung Malim MP Datuk Seri Ong Ka Chuan said the punishment on the two boys was uncalled for.
“Teachers must be careful when carrying out punishment, especially in this multi-cultural society.
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“They must always look into the sensitivities and taboos of each specific race and religion,” said the MCA secretary-general.
MCA Wanita chief Datuk Heng Seai Kie said: ”It is not right to punish pupils in such manner, regardless of the mistakes they had committed,” she added.
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