Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Article 3: Everyone has the rights to life, liberty and security of person. Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 26(1): Everyone has the right to education. Higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

THE REVOLUTION: OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE TEACHING PROFESSION IN MALAYSIA

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, United States Declaration of Independence.

More than 200 years after Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, these truths cease to be self-evident at least to some of the teachers in Malaysia.

Let us hope that one day there will be no more oppression and bullying in schools where the biggest bullies of all are none other than the school principals themselves.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

A FIERCE BATTLE IS YET TO BEGIN

The good samaritan who promised to help me and Miss Edelweiss56 to get a transfer has done his best to help us but our transfer applications were rejected by the Pengarah. I don't know how to tell Edelweiss56 this piece of bad news when she comes back from Switzerland. She will be really disappointed. It has always been her intention to leave the school even when she first came. As for me, I don't mind staying (this is my ninth year in the school) if Tuan Haji S or Puan Hajah R, or Encik N were still my principal. I have had the most beautiful moments of my life during their reign. And I love my students. When I went into Form 1-I sometime before the end of last semester, some of the girls hugged me tight. I am not even teaching that class. I only went in to relief their teacher who was absent that day. I was really touched by their affection that I nearly cried. Actually there is virtually nothing wrong with the school. Compared to other secondary schools, the students in this school can be considered as angels. Most of my colleagues are nice, friendly and helpful with some exceptions, of course, since there are some spies around who are busy taking advantage of the situation to earn some merits. Should I leave the school because of the present principal?

And what is going to happen to me in the next semester? What will the present principal do to me and Edelweiss56? I hope that Edelweiss56 's prediction is not true. She said that if the principal sees us again next semester, she will chase us with a parang. A fierce battle is yet to begin and that's the reason why I started this blog. Let the whole world know what is happening in this school. I have to be prepared mentally and emotionally to fight this battle.

Some of us will still remember what Thomas Jefferson said in his Declaration of Independence dated 4 July 1776:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

More than 200 years after Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, these truths cease to be self-evident. They no longer apply to some of the teachers in a secondary school in Kuala Lumpur.
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