Today the whole world celebrated World Teachers Day. It is celebrated in a very low-key manner in Malaysia because as usual we want to be different from the rest of the world. We chose it to celebrate on a different day and month. I am sure many teachers are not even aware the importance of today’s date. In any case, I would like to say a few words about the teaching profession in Malaysia on this important day.
Firstly, I would like to express my sincere congratulations, a big thank you to all the dedicated teachers either serving or retired that has shown their sincerity and commitment to this honorable profession. I must say that my expression of congratulations is not for all teachers but only to those deserving ones.
To those teachers who are lazy, not motivated and has no interest in this profession, I would like to say bluntly; “leave the profession. Go on with your life by doing some other job. Do not bring shame to those dedicated teachers. Stop taking free lunches and trying to earn easy money”. Like the famous Malay proverb; “Kerana nila setitik, rosak susu sabelanga”. This group of useless people who call themselves teachers are spoiling the milk i.e. the good name and work done by other good teachers. The good teachers themselves must also play their part and become busy body and “kick” this lazy bumps out of the system.
I am sure many teachers will feel offended. Some idiotic buggers like an Ustaz in my children school says that “ cubit peha kiri, sakit peha kanan” In my children school, which is a prominent school in Kuala Lumpur there are about 20% of the teachers who are lazy. They do not teach. They do not do what is minimally expected of them. They just do not do their core business. I know who this people are and it is my intention to write to the respective teachers and telling them to leave. As a parent, I had enough of them. High on the list is a GPK that goes by the Mxxxx binti masam. She is the leader of the pack of 20%. Even the HM cannot move her because she has good cable in the KL Education Dept.She is comfortably warming her chair because of her connections and not because of her ability.
For the Education DG, I request that you look into this matter and the welfare of the good teachers. I remember that you commented sometime last year on TV that you said over the years, more people want to become teachers and that is the indication that profession has becoming more respected. I beg to differ. The actual reason why more people are applying to become teachers is that they cannot get any job elsewhere. This people are rejects from other profession. They have no where else to go. Hence they applied to become teachers.
The teaching profession has become the last available frontier that can provide an easy job, a steady income, a good side income and that they can fit in. I believe the weakness in selection of teachers is the main reason why we have 20% of the teachers to be the bad apples. Please do something. Reward the good teachers. Terminate the service of the lazy ones. Why keep them? If parents complain, it is a reflection of the MOE image. Don’t bother transfer them to other schools. Identify the lazy ones, the hardcore and tell them to leave. It saves a lot of headache for everyone.
I would also like to highlight a case of a school in Ipoh, Perak where the Headmistress who is a single woman and was never married. She run her school to a certain standard that she set. The problem is she wants to do ISO 9001 certification and many more paper chase program and get all the teachers to be involved in many activities that are not related to the core function of the organization.
Teachers who are over burden with schoolwork are now burden with other unnecessary paper documentation procedures, which is not practice in any other schools. This head mistress is running program that is not even in the agenda of the Department of Education. While she should be commended for her initiatives, I think she needs to know where to draw the line. Just because she has no family, live and “married to the school” it is not right for her to get other teachers to do the same. This is done to the expense of people lives, their families and the teachers core function.
Lastly, I would like to wish to all the excellent and dedicated teachers that give 100% of their commitment to their job - Happy Teachers Day and a very big Thank you. Only GOD can reward you more than what I can do. We can only remember what you did.
I would also like to encourage those lazy ones to take the first step and leave the profession. In the case of my children school, it start with one particular GPK (Even the student called her Puan Mxxxx binti Masam), one ustaz who thinks it is OK to threaten parents and a few more that I do not wish to mention here. I will write to them personally and ask them to spare the burden. You all can do many other things in life. Move on. Consider goat farming. It is more profitable. Selamat Hari Raya dan Maaf Zahir Batin.
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p/s - Btw, it is interesting to see how children imitate teachers on a TV program called Tom Tom Bak, which was hosted by Aznil Hj Nawawi and was aired tonight at 700pm. All teachers must see it. That sums up the state of affairs of things in the classroom. MOE key officers must watch. I will try to get a copy of the clip and post it here at a later stage
