From ‘Baffled by award for teacher who went on trip while wife was dying’, 12 May 2012, ST Forum (Mark Gregory Rozells): WEDNESDAY’S report (‘Caring teachers win awards’) about a teacher who received the Caring Teacher Award because he accompanied students to a competition abroad, even as his wife was dying of cancer, has left [...]
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From ‘Verbal abuse’ by teacher: Dad files police report’, 10 May 2012, article by Stacey Chia, ST AN UPSET parent, learning that a teacher had used hurtful words on his daughter in class, has filed a police report for verbal abuse. Mr Mohamed Ariffin, 53, said that his seven-year-old daughter, who goes to New Town [...]
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From ‘Poster with CHIJ logo ‘insulting’: school chairperson’, 18 Jan 2012, article by Jeanette Tan, sg.yahoo news. A poster featuring a naughty message has scandalised some people from the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) schools in Singapore. The large circular poster, which depicted the school’s crest at its centre, included a caption in [...]
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From ‘Teachers should stop saying shut up to pupils’, 4 Nov 2011 and ‘Shut up is only the tip of rude iceberg’, 11 Nov 2011, ST Forum. Cheers to quirkyhill. (Alicia Hock): WHEN I was a pupil more than 30 years ago, it was common for teachers to tell their classes to ‘shut up’ when [...]
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From ‘We f***ing did it, says NTU top student in grad speech’, 31 July 2011, article in Asiaone Edvantage “CONGRATULATIONS to the graduating class of 2011. We f***-ing did it!” Those were the parting words a valedictorian from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) left her graduating class with during their convocation ceremony last Friday evening. [...]
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From ‘Parent outraged by the word ‘Nipples”, 17 July 2011, article in insing.com translated from SM Daily. A parent is complaining that her child in kindergarten 1 is learning the word “Nipples”. The parent found this word in her child’s practice book as an example of words starting with the letter “N”. The parent confronted [...]
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From ‘Who says domestic helpers are overworked?’, 22 June 2011, ST Forum (Low Ai Choo): IT IS true that maids should not be treated differently from other workers, and they need rest (‘Consider law to give maids a day off every week: Halimah’; Monday). But do they really need one weekly day off for that? [...]
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From ‘Mum’s schooling concerns’, 12 May 2011, ST Forum online. Thanks to ‘stupidsolutions’ (Sherley Servos): I AM an Aljunied voter. Since Nomination Day, I spent every single night sleepless, pondering what to do. I considered many things: the nation’s desire for an opposition voice, the People’s Action Party’s good work in my GRC, estate maintenance, [...]
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From ‘Teachers from India’, 9 April 2011, My Point, ST Forum. (MR NICHOLAS LOH): ‘Thursday’s article (‘Teachers from India join Singapore schools’) highlighted how teachers from India are being recruited to teach subjects including the Indian mother tongue language, English, history, geography and economics. While teachers from India may be well-suited to teach the Indian [...]
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From ‘LOL, teachers won’t accept it”, 27 March 2011, article by Heather Marie Lee in Sunday Times Just because the Oxford English Dictionary has accepted abbreviations such as OMG, LOL and BFF and usage of ‘heart’ as a verb to mean ‘to love’, it does not mean that English language and literature teachers are prepared [...]
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