Education system on a down?

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The phrase 'Why you didn't do your homework again?' have been following me around for a very long time during the time i was schooling, all the way up to my tertiary education, my tutor will still be nagging at me to do my tutorial so that i can get better grade so on and so for. However, no matter how hard they try to convince me that doing tutorial is the only way to get good grade which i think otherwise. In secondary school, i can be described as a mischevious student, often distrubing classmate with my pranks and getting punished for either that or not completing my homework on time. The punishments then was standard in a way, stand outside the class, detention classes, suspense from school, see princpal, see parents and last of all if worse come to worst, will only be expulsion from school. However, in recent times, punishment have gone a level ahead of the traditional corporal punishment. How many of us actually know what is the meaning of corporal punishment? I suppose not many people will know what the term corporal punishment mean. Teacher asking the whole class of student to bash up just because the student didn't do his homework. This mean that i should be beaten up long ago by my classmate. Teachers resort to violence and vulgarities just like how student resort when they can't handle their emotion. Last time female teachers can only cry out loud or male teachers chasing us out of the classroom when they can't handle their emotion.

Teacher demanding a published apology on Straits Time just because the student hurled vulgarities at her and she was very disturbed after the incident happened. The teacher have been living in a cave for half of her life that she have never heard of vulgarities being hurled before? I agree that the student maybe overboard with this however the teacher was also over-reacting by demanding published apology. Not as if during my secondary school times, we were such angels not to scold teachers. Be it secondary school days or during my times in polytechnic, i can always been seen as the bad student who always argue with teachers. Although i always end up at the losing side, due to some conspiracy i suppose, I was never made to do a public apology infront of the whole school or lecture group let alone publishing apology on Straits Time.

In one of the link i posted, 2 students caught having sex in school being suspensed from school. For once, i want to point out this meaningless punishment. Suspension are usually given to student who commited serious offences. Students who are being suspensed from school because they commited serious offences just mean that the school are actually giving them the chances to commit the offence in public. In this case, suspending the two students from school just being that they are given the chance to have sex in their respective home without being caught because their parents will be working. Its time that they reviewed about this punishment to consider if what i said make sense. Teachers actually should be given a manual or instructions guide to help them identify what kind of punishment is acceptable and unacceptable.

Punishment, something that a teacher will use only when a student get uncontrollable on his/her behavior. Long gone are the days of corporal punishment, creative punishment are what people in the education business are seeking, using violence or trying to humilate a student? you choose it. Who knows , one day we might see teacher/lecturer setting up blog to complain about his/her student just like what students are doing nowadays.

* I was lucky to have graudated to be blogging about this. If not, let lecturer find out about this. I sure kana marked by them*