Posted by temasektimes on June 23, 2012
The Temasek Times has received two emails from MOE teachers
complaining about the conduct of Leonard Koh Yiak Kheng, the
principal of Northland Secondary School who was recently in the
news for allegedly ‘stalking’ ex-students on Facebook:
We also received one PDF file containing over 100
snapshots of Mr Leonard Koh’s ‘interaction’ with his
ex-students on Facebook including the ‘interesting’ pages and posts
he liked and shared:
In many of the posts, Leonard Koh posted ‘nice’ on the photos of
his ex-students some of whom were surprised at his comment. When
asked how he found them on Facebook, he replied that he surfed it
‘randomly’.
He also requested to meet up in person with some of his
ex-students one day:
“Hey, so nice to meet you online! Let’s meet up one
day!”
According to our informant, MOE received the file last year
which was circulated to other teachers as well, but chose to turn a
blind eye to it.
While the comments were not crude or lewd, something is not
right somewhere when an educator actively seeks out his ex-students
(not only one, but more than a hundred and more) on Facebook with
the intention of asking them out.
MOE should account to the public whether it is acceptable and
appropriate for its teachers to engage in such form of
‘communication’ with their students, past and present on
Facebook.