Rehabilitating problematic students

ACCORDING to a report from the Education Ministry, some 442 students were expelled from secondary schools this year.

It was also reported that another 640 secondary school students are currently in eight prisons and four correctional institutions nationwide. There were no details of who these students were and why they were expelled or sent to prisons and correctional institutions. We can only conclude that they must be the hardcore problem students – the gangsters, bullies, juvenile delinquents, rebels and drug addicts – who are the “misfits” in our education system and who are beyond redemption in normal schools.