NUTP today, in a local newspaper reveals that there is a female teacher who is now suffering trauma even though she is a dedicated teacher. This is due to a punishment given to one of her student for not completing homework. The consequences she had to face were:
- The student's parents sued her.
- It gives her bad reputations to the community
- Her job and salary were impeded.
However, she won the case and NUTP paid RM60,000 for the lawyer cost because she is a member of NUTP. NUTP’s General Secretary, Yim Pheng advices teachers to act carefully when dealing with any punishment. Punishment such as toilet cleaning might be harsh to parents view.
Today’s Teachers.
This is what teachers get from present day parents. They are no longer respected. Punishment which is to educate is seen as hidden hatred of teachers to the students. If all parents continuously embrace this attitude I feel that in the future we will have majority of citizens who are law ignorance. This will force our law enforcer to work harder and again the blame will come back to teachers (educators?).
Punishment I: Psychologist perspective
A devoted psychologist, B.F. Skinner proposes his operant conditioning theory in explaining how human behaviour is affected by its consequences. He believes that both reinforcement and punishment can be used in shaping children’s behaviour. Punishment is given to avoid the repetition of desired behaviours (delinquency). Punishment will decrease the desired behaviour because punishment is a kind of undesirable consequences. Therefore, it is not wrong for a teacher to punish their students in shaping their behaviour and attitudes.
Punishment II: Religious perspective
There are so many scenes appear in both the Quran and the Bible that depict the punishment given by God to human misconduct such as:
The mass flood to the people of Noah
The plagues in ancient Egypt
The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
A devoted psychologist, B.F. Skinner proposes his operant conditioning theory in explaining how human behaviour is affected by its consequences. He believes that both reinforcement and punishment can be used in shaping children’s behaviour. Punishment is given to avoid the repetition of desired behaviours (delinquency). Punishment will decrease the desired behaviour because punishment is a kind of undesirable consequences. Therefore, it is not wrong for a teacher to punish their students in shaping their behaviour and attitudes.
Punishment II: Religious perspective
There are so many scenes appear in both the Quran and the Bible that depict the punishment given by God to human misconduct such as:
The mass flood to the people of Noah
The plagues in ancient Egypt
The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Flashback: I was punished for my careless of did not bring my
English Language text book. The teacher still gave me a chance to follow the
lesson of the day but my place was near the front door outside of the classroom
and... HERE I AM TODAY! A teacher like her...
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