Teacher lost job coz of STOMP!!!

MohamedF SG

the identity of the kids were never showned... I put myself is the student's shoes, I wouldn know about the existance of the post... and even if I know, at most I would feel angry enough to tell the principal coz only I myself know it was my compo and no one else...

fudgester SG

Dude... your in b4 lock post is getting to be a really annoying spam... I suggest you stop before banned...

Anyway, back to topic... I'm the type of guy that puts myself in other people's shoe... And I don't think he deserves it... He's a teacher, he instill knowlege... he helps the children to get smart... then one wrong move (which I still doubt to be a very wrong move to deserve to be fired), *poof* bye bye rice bowl... and once he's fired by MOE, he's never going to be a teacher in SIngapore anymore...

Pretty heave price to pay for something so small huh...

I would understand if he's habitual and openly humiliates the students personally, but this is nonsense... plus no one was hurt by the teacher's action...

I bet if this was never posted on STOMP, this probably would just be a complaint to MOE and the teacher would be warned to take down the post... no one had to get hurt, but becase of stomp the teacher got hurt...

There's another article from stomp (I can't remember where), the army driver accidently knocked down a fence... but the damage was superficial and he fut the fence back up like nothing has happened... but an idiot stomper post it on the net and now he kena DB... no one had to get hurt, but because of stome, someone got hurt...

Sorry man, the only nonsensical behaviour I see is that of the teacher.

Try putting yourself in the shoes of the kids he humiliated..... how would you react if you were publicly humiliated online by your own teacher?

Sure, he didn't think long and hard about the ramifications of posting those essays online.... well, I say that if his mouth goes faster than his brain, and he can't process the possibility that his words may hurt the kids under him, then he's not qualified to teach.

I'm just glad that we got rid of one useless teacher.

Ferret SG

The schools were identified. The compos were exact. People had read the blog and the link was spread.

rainee SG

They know which school the three pupils come from...and it is bad for the school image. Imagine having teachers who laughed at the students when they made mistakes, do you think as a parent you would want your kids to go to this kind of school if nothing is being done to the teacher?

ShrodingersCat SG

he only lost his job. and if he does not possess the inherent patience required for being a teacher - then it is good that he realises it now. I can imagine a teacher complaining about difficult behaviour, disinterested students, stressful administration - but a teacher complaining about his students' academic weaknesses? isn't that why he is there for?

as an adult, he shd learn from his mistake and move on.

the kids lost their self esteem, their confidence. Imagine to have your works put up for the public to laugh at - over what? Not because you wilfully don't do something properly - but simply because you are not good enough.

who lost more?

MohamedF SG

I had teachers who laughed at my mistakes in my face... And because of that, I learned my mistake... worst that happened was it hurt my pride... does a hurt pride cost as much as years spent trying to become a teacher...?

MohamedF SG

The schools were identified. The compos were exact. People had read the blog and the link was spread.

I never heard about that... where you get it...?

w.eikaas SG

1)The teacher is definitely lack of professionalism. Shouldnt post students work online unless he has real good things to say - even so, he has to seek his students' permission - intellectual property. In this case, he has done BIG harm to student's pride.

2)Stompers - a bunch of nothing to do, untrained, reporters wannabe.

ShrodingersCat SG

I am sorry you had to meet such a teacher that had to resort to this to make you learn.
However, there is a difference between laughing at your face

and annoucing your mistakes to the world?

I'm not sure if he was trained to be a teacher - he was relief teaching and you don't need to be trained. But if in spite of all the training - he does not learn how to be sensitive to who he is teaching - then I tihnk his training is pointless.

rainee SG

It is not only pride la, you have to consider the self-esteem of the kids? Kids' confidence can be really vulnurable at this age. Not everyone learns when someone laughed in his or her face.

browniebaobao SG

i think the teacher really too much already...

wat if those students who wrote those compos he posted actually read his blog? they will feel hurt and humiliated...and might eventually hate english and deem themselves as failures.

to a student, a teacher's words carry certain weight.

till today, i remember my maths teacher told me in my face 'you are a failure!'.. when a student is not doing well at a subject, a teacher's job is to guide him and correct his mistakes instead of mocking at him.

currently there are too many teachers who are really lacking in the passion/patience to teach...probably coz students nowadays aren't that easy to teach. I believe we have all read too many news about teachers (the black sheeps), that i feel that MOE should be more stringent when it comes to recruiting teachers. It seems that many of them do not have the right qualities/ethics to teach.

Ferret SG

I never heard about that... where you get it...?

http://www.sgforums.com/forums/8/topics/308120

curryman SG

It is not only pride la, you have to consider the self-esteem of the kids? Kids' confidence can be really vulnurable at this age. Not everyone learns when someone laughed in his or her face.

singapore kids so tauhu?

MohamedF SG

wow... you guys make it sound like the latest generation of kids is made of glass... a little humiliation and break apart and all the king's horses and men can't put them back together again...

furthermore, as I said, the students we never idnetified... its because of the KPO that the school was identified... and when he retracted his post, someone screenshot his blog... its sad, like a lot of people want him to lose his job...

I continue discuss another time... got to sleep...

ShrodingersCat SG

singapore kids so tauhu?

regardless of whether the kids were affected or not, it does not absolve the teacher's inappropriate behaviour.

does not mean that if the kids more thick skinned means what the teacher do is right.

ShrodingersCat SG

wow... you guys make it sound like the latest generation of kids is made of glass... a little humiliation and break apart and all the king's horses and men can't put them back together again...

I continue discuss another time... got to sleep...

I think even if he is not sacked, he should resign.

Primarily because if he cannot even handle basic job requirements of helping students improve academically without griping about it, then how can he handle the various other aspects of the job?

I have many friends who are teachers.. and sure, they gripe about their kids' behaviour, pressures in school, frustrations with students who unwilling to learn.

but where got teacher gripe about their own students' weak academic abilities!? Or he only prefers to teach elite schools where all the kids write beautifully?

Dead_Man_Inc SG

EDMW is the real cause.

Some guy same church of the teacher was jealous and hence posted it on EDMW.

Some kaypoh EDMWer thinks that the teacher was wrong then go send it in.
Hence now all papers.

i saw this in newpaper today and i was like wtf? isn't that what i saw in EDMW few days ago?

Ferret SG

There is a difference in public humiliation for disciplinary purposes (Standing in front of the whole hall for fighting with other students, etc) and public humiliation for his own enjoyment.

trendz SG

he is from my primary school. lol. but I can't really remember who he is.

brokenluv SG

some teachers face alot of stress and not everyone of them have the same mental capacity to take it. you nvr know what your teachers may be talking about inside their staff room, about how stupid/foolish or wadever their students are. this particular teacher just chose to blog it, in which he suay enough lo.

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