OVER the years, we have heard of incidents when some members of the teaching profession involved in discipline imposed a punishment so excessive that it adversely affected students’ health.
It is therefore encouraging to see Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek taking a tough stand in the case of a teacher who allegedly punished a Year Five pupil by forcing him to stand for three hours in the hot sun, resulting in him having heatstroke. (“Inves-tigation paper on pupil being made to stand under hot sun referred to DPP’s office”, The Star, May 25; online at bit.ly/star_ punishheat)
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