Read an article on TheStar and I seriously think Ministry of Education (MOE), Wee Ka Siong or whoever that in charged of this are terribly stupid. Read the article and noticed the highlighted points:
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PETALING JAYA: The four students who were caught bullying their classmate, which was shown on YouTube, have been suspended for 14 days with immediate effect.
Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong said the students would also receive counselling. “We had a meeting with the Federal Territory Education Department director (Mohd Adenan Deraman), the school's senior assistant and disciplinary teacher as well as the victim and her uncle,” he said in his tweets yesterday.
Dr Wee said the victim's uncle was happy with the Education Ministry's decision.
“After examining the victim, we have decided to transfer her to another school nearby,” he said. Dr Wee was commenting on the three-minute video uploaded on YouTube on Saturday, which showed several female students bullying their classmate by pulling and cutting off the victim's hair.
The victim was also seen being hit with books on the head and strangled with a tie.
She cried and pleaded repeatedly for the assault to stop but her classmates ignored her pleas and jeered at her.
Mohd Adenan said the department would provide assistance to the victim. “The student (victim) has not transferred to the other school yet,” he said. Mohd Adenan said on Sunday that the students had apologised to the victim.
Dr Wee also reminded schools to enforce the ruling on banning handphones. “Schools must conduct spot checks to ensure the ruling is adhered to,” he said. Dr Wee had earlier confirmed that the victim was from SMK Raja Abdullah in Kepong and had instructed education authorities to get to the bottom of the incident. “We do not condone bullying in schools,” he said.
The incident had sparked an uproar among Facebook users.
Several groups have criticised the conduct of the bullies and also called for stern action against them. Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) commissioner James Nayagam urged that violent bullies be taken out of schools for rehabilitation.
Please watch the clip and you know rehab center is not harsh to these bullies.
Sentul OCPD Asst Comm Zakaria Pagan said a relative of the victim had lodged a police report.
To me all these actions taken are stupid and not effective at all. First, putting the school-bullies on 14 days suspension is like rewarding them. Come on la!!. No need to go study is the happiest moment. The MOE assuming that, Oh we put them on suspension and hope that they will think back of their wrongdoings and they will eventually be a better person. I like what the…. School-bullies are not those who bully-and-forget type. They tend to bully and create problems to other. Hello!! what if these baboons hitting was your own daughter? I am sure he will do whatever it's to put them on jail or something. No matter how many times I watches the clip, I feel like slapping them over and over again. Putting them on 14 days suspension? Niamah him!! So by putting them on suspension or counseling are definitely not helping but in a way, this is rewarding them.
Wee’s said that putting the bullies into rehab center might be too harsh but as this is the case, then I am sure there are alternative ways to punish these girls. Can’t he think of something like community works? Rather than giving them 14 days punishment which in a way is also entitling them with a long holiday as in really "holidaying", instead the government should give the bullies some community works where some hardworks are involved. In that way, I’m sure the bullies will learn something in return while helping the others. They deserved it right?
The second point would be transfer the victim to another school. This may seem helping the victim but seriously it caused more harm than good. The clips are being circulate on YouTube or any social pages. So definitely a lot of people saw or knew it. If she got transfer to another school what make sure she won't get tease by others or the incident won't happen to her again?
The last point is banning handphones in school compound. Let say if there are no cellphones used to records such incidents, will the school's authority and the MOE aware that there are so many school-bullies out there? I bet they won't know or yet they want to know. Banning cellphones is just another way of saying "No phones, No clips, No complaints and No need explain!!". End of story. So all in all MOE and Wee's is not helping at all. And in future, I can guarantee that more of these bullies-case-clips will surface.
