YOURSAY | ‘Bully today, courtroom tomorrow.’
Form 3 student ‘beaten, stripped, nearly strangled’ by Form 4 bullies
Drkam: So, you almost killed someone from bullying… and the next scene?
Six families marched to the victim’s house, begging for the case to be dropped. Bravo! What a fine example of “Malaysian problem-solving.”
Here’s an idea: instead of playing the sympathy card, let’s make you famous.
Try these bullies in court as adults. Put their names in the history books – a shining example for future generations that stupidity and violence come with consequences.
Every school should tell this story to juniors and seniors alike: “Once upon a time, some kids thought bullying was fun. Now they’re learning about the consequences… from behind bars.”
Enough of this nonsense where families think they can bargain away accountability like it’s a pasar malam (night market) discount.
Malaysia doesn’t need bullying as a culture. We need responsibility as tradition.
So here’s the moral: Bully today, courtroom tomorrow.
Hrrmph: Why the necessity to have new laws and tribunals for bullying?
Charge these bullies as criminals under the Criminal Procedure Code.
Their actions are criminal, and they should be charged and, if found guilty, punished like any criminal.
No kid gloves and no special treatment!
Mano: The students in school have seen enough bullying to emulate.
1. Teachers bully students, especially minorities and the marginalised. Even with the minorities, teachers will often not try their tricks on the middle and upper classes.
2. They have seen enough of Umno Youth chief Dr Akmal Saleh-types bullying of minorities and egged on by probably their parents, relatives, even people they pray with.
3. They saw how a Chinese disabled Grab driver was assaulted by a police officer when the police officer should have been a protector.
4. They saw how activist Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam (and her parents), a bright, outspoken student who spoke up against a teacher for infusing sexual grooming during a school lesson, was harassed and bullied by the whole school, the district, state and federal education systems.
5. They saw, read and heard about how teachers bullied students by checking on their menstrual pads, and so far to date no action has been taken.
So many examples to emulate.
Mat M Din: Principals should enforce strict discipline in schools to prevent bullying from taking place.
If bullying happens, principals should be held responsible for negligence.
To enforce strict disciplinary measures in schools, it is advised that during the school morning assembly, principals have to make a strict announcement that students who are caught bullying will be suspended or dismissed from school.
Students who are threatened with bullying should immediately inform their class teachers so that prompt action can be taken to stop it.
Students who are caught making threats should be summoned to the principal’s office together with their parents for admonition.
If these measures could be strictly implemented, bullying could be prevented.
Mechi: Slow action, inertia by top school authorities, bureaucratic practices, and interference by “politicians or those who are close to politicians” are some of the barriers to eliminating this problem.
Principals are incompetent or indolent!
Students to protest demanding Fadhlina’s resignation
World Citizen: Many people have said Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek should be given the boot, but this is the ultimate.
Her most important stakeholder, the students, are now protesting that she resign. This is utterly shameful.
Fadhlina has failed on many fronts and has made many silly mistakes since taking office.
Most importantly, she has failed miserably to reform and uplift the country’s education system and standard of education.
It is time for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to let her go and find somebody who can bring some real changes to our education system.
Appum: Fadhlina, where art thou? Are we nurturing a sadistic culture in schools? School children are our future.
Put on your thinking cap, if you have one, and consult with education experts of all races and come out with a curriculum or programme that can help produce useful citizens of tomorrow for our country.
Don’t bury your head in the sand!
Fools seldom differ: Parents are partly to be blamed and fully responsible for not inculcating discipline in their families.
They need to be charged for the violent and inhuman behaviour of their children.
Looking back, our flip-flop educational policies are a let-down and a complete farce. Ministers come and ministers go.
They are not doing anything but collecting their fat salaries and perks. I hope and pray our country will not descend into lawlessness.
Hmmm: @Fools seldom differ, not completely true.
Our latest education minister has just implemented a national flag badge for all students.
This will surely solve our bullying problems as well as falling educational standards.
GoldenParrot4280: Please lah. Bullying has existed for the longest time. Want to blame this education minister only?
There are many others to blame as well.
Note also that there are criminal laws against bullying. Want to blame the police as well?
Really Tired of Idiots: Yes, the bullies must be punished.
But more important is the follow-up of the victim and the bullies.
Hopefully, they will be reformed.
FYI, bullying is also common in the workplace, be it the office, factory or hospital.
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