SMK Bawang Assan PTA chairman insists he did it for ’students’ good
Jimmy Kiu is defiant and insists his conscience is clear. He said what he did was for the benefit of the students. He insists he has no personal vendetta against the teacher or the principal. Perhaps he felt he had to make this clarification.
The teacher is on indefinite leave after he ‘exposed’ the soaking incident to the press. The report he made was filled with gross inaccuracies, exaggerations and has been well received by the public who thought it all true. Even today, at this particular moment, people judge her by the words from his mouth. Sometimes fiction is more interesting than the truth.
Who cares about the truth? Who cares about Wee Yim Pien? She is a nobody. A teacher crucified by society before it has been given access to the full facts. Found guilty by reading a report written by a man perhaps in anger but now proven to be factually false in so many aspects. Every major subsequent press report has been tainted by the first report. Most of them have no idea where Bawang Assan is.
She did not report a child missing like Jess Teh or be suspected of being involved in a murder like Razak Baginda. But she is judged just as cruelly and she has no access to a legal counsel. Everybody in authority speaking as befits their station in life e.g. as director, minister, assemblyman, MP, headmaster, parent….judge, judge, judge.
Now Jimmy Kiu has asked the parents to forgive her. She is already on indefinite leave. She might never ever have the chance to teach again. All her years of study gone down the drain. If you think she is like a prison warder or someone from Al-Catraz, you couldn’t be more wrong. She is just a good and dedicated 27 year old female teacher. It is just that the average Malaysian only saw her as an individual through the first report in the press.
She will be forever scarred by the incident.
Update: the teacher was not on indefinite leave. It was only reported so in the papers.
I dont think Jess was charged at all.
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Well, she can take comfort in the fact that people have short memories about this sort of thing. Most probably she can start all over again when this is over and the media moves on to other things.
When the media kicks in, people are often already been judged and found guilty by them.
Adino: it didnt have to happen.
Kay: unfortunately everyone wants to cast the first stone.
sad case…it’s always the media that blows stories out of proportion and in many cases ruining ppl’s reputation n life…
I suppose if i were not in the know, i would believe the printed word too
Hi…if you don’t mind I’d like to link this post on my blog. I’m gonna summarise about this “case”.
BB: shud b ok. There r lots of links to this topic on the net.
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Thanks! And my post is done…
http://marg.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/a-brief-summary/
I also included some snippets from you there too. Yes,there are lotsa links to this topic. I just agreed more with what you said here.
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This issue is brought into the very open in the t.v. programme ” what say you “. As for the secondary students, a few rotten apples spoil the whole lot. The few ones with the tidak apa attitude when they throw away their bloody sanitary pads into the toilet bowls. There is now very bad blood in the school. While forgiveness are said and reported, the next step should be incident reporting to the Ministry of Education. Either one or both will have to be transferred out. As for the students, the few rotten apples should be transferred to another school while the rest stay on. I think that hitting on the non dominant hand with a ruler and not other things is alright but the student has to know why she is beaten on the hand by the teacher. That is as far as corporal punishment should go.
this is a fair comment on the issue. i am not able to comment further on the issue within the school itself. i however had to delete a part of the comments. sorry.
I got the info from
The Borneo Post
relevant read