I am opening a forum for everybody to have their say on the way schools are run in Malaysia.
Education affects everybody and everybody from the students to the grand mama has a right to speak.....
I was a teacher for 20 odd years and head of a school for 18.
As a teacher I was right most of the time..when I became the HM..there was a dramatic improvement..I was right ALL of the time! I am now wondering.... if I had become the PPD or Director...
Going home was not much fun because the wife was right every time.....
Meanwhile we will kick off this first post.....
Please Pick One - Why Are You Late?
One thing I used to do while I was headmaster was to prepare a list of all the possible reasons why I or any teacher is late for school. Every time I come across a new one i would add on to the list.
The late teacher will be asked to pick from the List of reasons...among which were...
Heavy traffic or traffic jam -
All traffic lights RED -
COws on the road -
Car cannot start -
The baby care came late, send child to mother-in-law's place -
Stomach ache in the morning -
Woke up late - had late night
Send father to hospital -
Alarm clock failed -
After a short few weeks there was a dramatic increase in punctuality.
I had told the teachers that I wanted to study the relationship between lateness and gender, graduate or non-graduate, age, university/schools, races, car-owners/ motor-cyclists/walkers, distance from school....
I did not have enough data to make any conclusion. WOnder if any school today can enlighten me?
But seriously - Do you think that people should be excused for being late?
