Too Much

I've just read in today's newspaper on the news about a nine-year-old girl was slapped by her disciplinary teacher for being 10 minutes late to school.

She was late due to heavy morning traffic jam in Puchong. The mother was only been informed of the incident when she fetched her daughter after school session.

According to the mother, she was shocked to see her daughter's face swollen. Furthermore, she claimed that the school ignored her complaint and rejected her request to see the disciplinary teacher.

If this was true, personally, I felt the action was too much. The matter could be tackle differently and a lot of other disciplinary actions could be imposed.

Through my experience, normally, we would loss our temper and felt like slapping someone's else face if the other person retaliated either using abusive or harsh words. However, a normal and mentally sound human being would not easily lose one's temper especially early in the morning over a trivial matter.

Hopefully, the parties involved should clarify on the actual incident as to clear the air.

Size Matter

I still remembered my primary school days in the 70's...my headmistress, the late Miss Sibert, was not an ordinary person. Her presence was noticeable not only because she emphasised on disciplinary but also her physical built up.

She seemed like walking drum barrel with jolted head since her size was XXXL, I guessed. Throughout the years she only had one designed of attires, knee length dress with short sleeves and pair of black sandals.

When she spoke everybody listened. The moment we saw her along the school corridors making her routine morning round, everybody was glued to the seat. Even the naughtiest one would behave.

When she retired in early 90's, the school teachers and kids had made special trishaw paraded for her. I just viewed the photographed from the local newspaper. She remained the same through out the years except aging...and I was truly happy for the respects she gained as she deserved it.

The reason I revealed her physical conditions was not meant to talk bad behind her back (especially when she was no longer with us) but to respond on the complaint by Joanna Gilbert Asson.

She claimed that she was discriminated by a senior officer at the Teachers Training College Rajang for being "fat". She was a business administration graduate from UNITEN and was successfully accepted to the later college after she passed the prerequisite examinations and interviewed by the college panel.

Well, if the claim was true, then in this era size does matter. Just look around us even in the music industry, those who are born with talents but lack in physical appearance, would not be credited compared to those who are gifted with beauty.

So, I wonder if Miss Sibert was born in this era, will she be able to secure her position as headmistress even though she had all the qualities ?