The day the education system is taught a lesson


Positive outcome: The plaintiffs namely (second from left) Calvina, Nur Natasha and Rusiah with their lawyer Sherzali at the Kota Kinabalu Court Complex.

KOTA KINABALU: The three students who won a lawsuit against their teacher for failing to turn up for months in 2017 want this to be a lesson for all teachers and a motivation for students to speak up when their rights are violated.

One of the students, Rusiah Sabdarin, hopes that constant monitoring on teachers’ performance and attendance in school would be prioritised from now on.

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