PETALING JAYA – The shocking and seedy goings-on at a secondary school in Rawang have galvanised the Education Ministry into action following an exposé by an English newspaper.
The ministry promised to get to the bottom of the situation.
. Deputy Education Minister Dr Wee Ka Siong said the ministry's day school management division and the Selangor education department were carrying out the investigation in the school.
Weeding out bad hats
“The ministry will not tolerate gangsterism and hooliganism in school," Wee said when asked to comment on The Star report today.In Muar, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said that if the ministry probe showed that the problems were disciplinary in nature, it was well within its power to resolve it.
"But if it involves violation of the law, we will ask the police to investigate," he said after attending a gathering with teachers in the Muar and Ledang districts today. Muhyiddin is also Education Minister.
National Union of the Teaching Profession secretary-general Lok Yim Pheng said all teachers have a right to discipline students.
Need to shape discipline
“However, the union would prefer if there was a discipline master who could handle the more 'hardcore' students,” she said.According to the The Star exposé, students at the co-ed secondary school have been extorted, bullied and assaulted.It also said violent attacks, rapes and drunken binges by schoolboys were common in the school. Residents outside the school are equally afraid of these schoolboy gang members.
Source : http://www.malaysianmirror.com
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