Furious teacher flung a sandal at a student

You need a lot of patience to be a teacher nowadays. As long as you are dealing with the so called Generation-Y or Millennial Generation or the Facebook Generation then, you need exceptional patience, self-motivation and superb anger-management to be a teacher. Some youngsters are spoiled brats, unlike those growing up in the sixties or seventies which are more humble, polite and respectful to their teacher. Our society has been changing over the past two decades and thus the teaching professionals such as teacher, lecturer and so forth must also change their mentality and also the ways to handle the student.

A primary school teacher was reportedly flung her sandal at a 7-year old disobedient boy for chatting in the class despite being reprimanded earlier. Fortunately the boy only suffered minor injuries but the parents had lodged a police report on the incident and demanded that the teacher be suspended from her duties. When a police report is made, naturally such incident will be reported in the newspaper.

Use your imagination; if you are the teacher, while you are busy teaching in the class full of enthusiasm and there’re disobedient students keep-on talking and making noise in the class despite your warning many times, what would you do? This kind of things happened very often when I was young in the primary and secondary school, the teacher would just fling a duster to the student and no one dare say anything. Sometimes the duster hit the student, so you can imagine the student’s uniform will be full of the chalk dust.

Those days, the disobedient students would never inform their parents on such incident unless very serious thing involved injuries or whatnot. The students even though naughty, are scared of the teacher. The parents no matter how still respect the teacher and if they know that their kids are being punished for some wrongdoings, very likely, the parent will punish their kids for another time at home.

A few months ago, the parent of a college student who committed suicide went to the college that so happened my wife is teaching, blaming the college authority for not alerting them on any abnormal behaviors of their son who committed suicide. They opined that if the college authority were more attentive and observing, could have help to prevent the student who suffered from depression from committing suicide.

The fact is; if we do not straighten the discipline of our own children, then don’t expect the teacher to do it for you. If as a parent you can’t even discipline your own kids, then you can just imagine how possible could the teacher doing it in a class of 40 to 50 pupils? Those days were different as the pupils were scared of the teacher more than their own parents but nowadays, the spoiled brat don’t even bother about their parents let alone the teacher.