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	Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2013%2F2%2F14%2Fnation%2F12709742&sec=nation

Thursday February 14, 2013

‘Teacher caned and sent my daughter out of class’

Left traumatised: Syahrul showing the police report as Nur Emilia sits beside him at their home. — Bernama

BUTTERWORTH: A father claimed his daughter suffered emotional distress after she was allegedly caned and sent out of class by a female teacher for failing to complete her homework.
Syahrul Asmawi Rashid, 35, said his daughter, Year Six pupil Nur Emilia, 12, had since refused to return to school because the teacher had allegedly also told her to fill up a transfer form and move to another school.
“The teacher contacted me at 9.30am on Friday to say my daughter had returned home for failing to finish her homework,” he said, adding that Emilia did not come home although their house was less than 100m away from the school.
“I later found her crying in the village. She didn’t tell me what had happened until her friend, who dropped by, related the incident to me,” Syahrul Asmawi, a self-employed, said here yesterday.
He lodged a police report on Tuesday.
Penang education director Tarmizi Kamaruddin said he had ordered the school head to investigate the allegation.
“Maybe, the teacher was overcome by emotion. However, it is against teaching principles to send pupils out of class for they have the right to remain in class to learn,” he added. — Bernama

Reading the article above, it saddens me to see how children turn out these days. And as to the actions of the parents, hmmm... honestly, I'm pretty much speechless. The kid did not do her homework even at Year 6 (which happens to be a crucial year for primary school students considering that UPSR is just at the end of the corner). It is about time that someone teaches these kids the consequences of not taking their responsibility of a student seriously. It is after all for the future. For what it's worth, I think she deserved it. Sigh! When I was a student, I too got caned and sent out of class for not doing my homework. I was not emotionally distress over those episodes. Heck, I grew up just fine. It is how I learned how important it is for me to do my homework. Now, as an adult, I understood how important homework and all the stern teachers play their part to me being who I am today. Sometimes, I even wished that I could turn back time so that I could study harder and be nicer to my teachers (I wasn't exactly an easy student).