vendredi, avril 30, 2004 It's rather unfortunate that the principal of Nan Chiau has to step down because of a breach in disciplinary protocol. From the number of calls made to the Chinese hui guan, he seems to be a popular guy, with words like "soft spoken" and "mild mannered" being applied to his character.He said that he hit the girl because she had lied to him - and this was her 20th-or-so disciplinary offence. It sounds like he probably gave her a number of chances to prove herself worthy of trust, but she breached it time and time again, and this was the last straw, and the principal lost it just before he could walk away from the situation. I rather admire the guy for his morals - he said that he clearly broke the rules, and so he would follow them to the letter. But I guess that he has to leave his job, even though I think he might have just made a terrible slip in a moment of weakness. If he doesn't, it starts a rather dangerous precedent where teachers can just hit students as and when they feel that it is "justified". Who decides justification on these sorts of matters anyway? Though sometimes I think that the fear of the teacher in the classroom, and a general respect for rules and regulations could and should be whipped back into the kids. But that's just my two cents' worth. [南桥男人难做人] |
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