Spare the rod, spoil the child...

It has been a hectic week in school. Even Monday was an occasional holiday in the school due to Chap Goh Mei celebrations, many students came back with a talkative attitude. Were they talking about the celebrations itself or was it about the heavy floods that occur the Friday before?
What ever it is my observation are that students in my school are quite obedient except for a handful. The Iban students deserve my praise. Coming from a suburban area, they are quite different from the Iban students that I had from my former school. However, some of these Bumi students had an illness called "Laziness".

Coming to the title, "Spare the rod, spoil the child...". I think if teachers are able to exercise canning on problematic students, the school will be a better place. Parents nowadays spoil their children too much. In my previous school, I was told that when parents are called to the school because of their children's discipline problems, they got angry and shouted at the teachers. No wonder their children have so much problems in school as the saying goes, "Like Father Like Son".

Recalling an incident in a class of Bumi students, I jokingly told the students that the students whom I canned before make it to institutions of higher learning and that I met these students when I was studying my masters in UM, one Iban boy said to me " Cikgu, bawa rotan hari Jumaat ini. I nak Cikgu rotan saya supaya I boleh masuk universiti..." I had a good laugh and told him that if he really wants to go to the university, he must study hard. Those that I canned were lazy students whom I thought they could get good grades if they work hard. The pain that they endured as a result of the canning became a constant reminder that they should always do my homework. The chain result is that the constant homework is the practice that they need to do well in the exams. In return the good results in the public exam pushed them into the universities...

So what do you think, fellow teachers?...