KUCHING: People who have no aptitude for teaching and who act out their feelings by abusing defenseless children must stop teaching and look for other careers.
Ba Kelalan assemblyman Baru Bian said teachers had been entrusted with children so that they could be taught and be shaped into good citizens.
“Teachers are employed to inspire pupils to learn and to thirst for knowledge. During their formative years, the influence of teachers is paramount in shaping the attitudes of our future generation,” he said in a statement yesterday.
He was commenting on news published on Sunday that a Primary 6 pupil in Long Lama had allegedly been abused by his Mathematics teacher to the point of nearly passing out.
Baru pointed out that it was only natural that some school children might not keep up with their homework but that did not entitle the teacher to kick, slap and beat them.
This sort of abuse, he said, would traumatise them mentally and emotionally and put them off going to school, besides putting them in danger of physical harm.
“I understand that the teacher concerned is a young man from Peninsular Malaysia. I have said before that many teachers from Peninsular Malaysia are not happy to be posted to our rural areas, and perhaps this is why this particular teacher took out his frustrations on the boy,” he said, adding that the teacher concerned had betrayed the trust placed on him by the parents of the school children at the school.
Baru also noted that if it were indeed true that the teacher had in fact kicked, slapped and beaten the pupil, he should be charged for assault.
“This is a criminal act and the authorities must show that such heinous acts are unacceptable. We do not want our children to be damaged by them.”-Borneo Post
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