Teacher first and soldier last


  • Letters
  • Monday, 17 Jan 2005

A FORMER serviceman, who became a teacher after he quit the forces, was put in charge of discipline in a Seberang Jaya school which had serious disciplinary problems. 

When he first walked into the school several years ago, the state of affairs there shocked him into numbness, as he put it. His heart was in his mouth when his colleagues told him how the previous disciplinary teachers had fared. 

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