14-year-old girl’s shocking attack on teacher
An English language teacher at a local secondary school has lodged a police report after her 14-year-old student allegedly kicked her in the abdomen and slapped her on the head.
The 45-year-old teacher, from a school in the south, had tried to stop the teenager from disrupting her lesson on Monday when she claimed she was assaulted.
According to The Straits Times, the student in question has a history of behavioural problems and was already being counselled by the school.
The alleged attack on the teacher took place in front of an entire class after the teacher told the teen to stop knocking a library book against her desk. When she refused to stop, the teacher tried to confiscate her book.
But it was not until the teacher started recording the girl’s behaviour in a notebook that the student was said to have lost it completely.
She allegedly began screaming vulgarities and stomped on the teacher’s right foot before rushing out of the classroom. She then went on to attack another school staff member in the staff room before returning to the classroom.
After that, she reportedly attacked the teacher again, kicking her twice in the abdomen and hitting her on the head.
The school principal merely confirmed that the student had become agitated and hit the teacher who tried to counsel her on her “uncooperative behaviour in class”.
“Our school staff intervened immediately and the student calmed down after that. The teacher did not sustain any injury,” he added.
Despite the principal’s claims, the teacher’s husband was upset enough to insist his wife go for a medical examination, and accompanied her to a police station to file a report.
“My wife was in shock, this was her first run-in with the girl,” the husband said. “I am worried for her safety.”
The petite teen student is apparently not new to trouble. She was reportedly caught with a penknife in school, was often rude to teachers and ran away from home in March. In addition, it is believed that she is also involved in another police case in which she allegedly instigated three boys to beat up another student.
The school is well aware of the student’s problems and had been working with her and her mother to address the issues, according to the principal.
The principal added, “She has been given time off from school to reflect on her actions and assigned schoolwork to be completed at home. We will continue to counsel the student and review her progress.”
Counsellors are increasingly concerned about teens losing their cool and turning violent.
In May this year, netizens were outraged when a video of a teenage boy assaulting his schoolmate in the lift made its rounds on the Internet.
Executive director of Singapore Children’s Society, Mr Alfred Tan, said he is seeing more cases of children resorting to violence toward teachers and caregivers when they have difficulty controlling their anger.
“This may be because they are exposed to violent movies and videos, and they copy the actions, and also because parents are less strict in disciplining their kids these days,” he said.
Chief executive of Ain Society, Mr Yusof Ismail also suggested that parents be more willing to seek help when they have trouble controlling their children.
He said most parents do not file for a Beyond Parental Control order, which is a formal request for the court’s intervention when counselling does not work.
“They are embarrassed and also afraid their children will have a bad record,” he explained. “But this doesn’t help the children and one day, they will snap if they do not learn how to manage their anger.”
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Jacobian on July 30, 2010 at 2:13 pm
wow…a femme fatale
fabiodanial on July 30, 2010 at 2:25 pm
so sad…..not worth to be a teachers in spore…..so sad
vereneonn on July 30, 2010 at 2:25 pm
This 14-years-old student must have learnt the violence from somewhere.
If she is not corrected now, she may grow up becoming a gangster Ah Lian in our society.
mamad79 on July 30, 2010 at 2:31 pm
F*%k the student…..really should punish dis ‘gangster’ wannabe..tink wat? Singapore can act big ah??? stupid bitch!!!!!! SALUTE TO ALL TEACHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I SUPPORT THE HUSBAND….MOE, don play nice with this kind of student…revert to the old days….give teachers the dignity of bringing wooden cane and enforced physical but standard (unlikely to cause injury)punishment….wei I kena b4 u noe……keeps us in check with the authority……Fucking young Singapore students don noe shit about disciplin…
brightkupu2 on July 30, 2010 at 2:32 pm
What is sad is that parents should think carefully about becoming parents before having children. Parents pass all their unresolved emotional issues to the children. Of course its not intentional and the parents are unaware they are doing it.
The 14 year old has problems because it all starts at home, it goes back to childhood and what homelife was and is. I wonder if counsellors are aware that they MUST bring the parents in for counselling as well, its not all the child’s fault!
akilanr9 on July 30, 2010 at 2:37 pm
as what i know, many students are stressed with studies, and also other sress in family, and teachers need to help them and
not make life more difficult
darklight12345 on July 30, 2010 at 2:38 pm
It’s not the child’s fault !
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It’s the teacher’s fault. She should be charging the school fee like $2000 per month. Or else. do you think it’s fair ?
Singapore education should be charge at least $1500 per month for primary schools and $2500 for Secondary schools.
All those cannot afford to do education can go to work in construction site.
It’s the parents fault when they cannot afford a proper education. They can always sell their children to some Pervert in Oversea. Like thailand and Indonesia. Sell them as SEX SLAVE.
Singaporean are just too luck to have PAP that provide them with a “FREE EDUCATION”.
darklight12345 on July 30, 2010 at 2:45 pm
This 14-years-old student must have learnt the violence from somewhere.
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Some just born naturally lah. No use one. Sell them as “SEX SLAVE”. OK liao loh.
Or just let her totally stop schooling. Why give chance ? So many people need help. SHe can always work at KTV.
darklight12345 on July 30, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Too many laws in Singapore. That why cannot break this cannot break that.
Even Joo chiat also cannot do anything. Welcome to Singapore.
Hahahahahhahahah………………….. .
It’s a total waste of time. Let them died.
darklight12345 on July 30, 2010 at 2:53 pm
MOE useless lah. I tell you ! It’s time to up the education FEE in Singapore.
Nothing is free ! Let them pay. Education shouldn’t be free.
Or else find foriegn teacher loh. My Cheap foriegn workers want to be teachers too with high salary. Who want to work in the hot sun ? And something boss don’t give salary ? Work for MOE better ! Got steady salary.
asshole1234 on July 30, 2010 at 3:08 pm
the alleged student must be banned from entering the school for a period, fined and sent to do community work under close scrutiny. the principal of the school is acting too slow, need to buck up to prevent recurrence.
vereneonn on July 30, 2010 at 3:14 pm
If i were one of her parents, i will give her one tight slap for her rude behaviour. This is to wake her up. Hokkien ppl call “See-kin-na!”
weizhang05 on July 30, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Fault lies in both parties, since the school already know that the female student have *behavior problems*, they should have already been prepared to anything incase of emergency. Its normal that her reaction was launched on the teachers…suspending her from school will also not help her to *overcome her problems*. Frankly speaking, it will only make things worst. The culprit parents should also have send the girl to some counseling session to improve her abnormal behavior. But still, the teacher is still at fault. Want to play hero? Instead, she got bash up by some 14 year old kid. Literately common sense, MOE should really do something to make *teachers to able to communicate well with the students*.
abetterfutureformyfamily on July 30, 2010 at 3:27 pm
We are bringing up a bunch of useless thugs in Singapore,who dont respect anything,dont respect elders. They only care about the altest gadgets and money.Its no wonder we have to bring in Foreign Talent. Good luck to our next generation.
darklight12345 on July 30, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Fault lies with the school for not having body guard for teachers.
Nowday children are just too lucky already.
” Her problems ” answer is “WHO CARES !” welcome to real life ! 14 years old is teens already. No longer call children. Children should be 10 and below. Where they are WEAK.
10 to 18 should teens. Able to protect themselves. And some even carry pen-knife and ability to do robbery, ability to Rape. Ability to murder.
How to teach them with care ??????? Impossible already.
youlahthan on July 30, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Spare the cane, spoil the child. Being teachers nowadays is damn difficult. Teenager even resort to sueing their parents. Teachers not allow to use cane. Parents reprimanding and even suing teachers for disciplining their child. Like that how lah? Luckily the teacher didnt hit back, otherwise, she will become the bad person instead. Good that she report to the police. Let them take action on a spoilt brat.
florid2008 on July 30, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Kids nowadays have too much time on their own with no one monitoring as both parents have to work. Kids are frustrated with too much homework and no one at home to help or talk… I’m also facing the same problem with my 14 yrs old but what to do, we need work to feed the family.
darklight12345 on July 30, 2010 at 3:33 pm
the principal of the school is acting too slow, need to buck up to prevent recurrence.
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MOE give too less power to the principal lah. NO choice. He should have sack the girl long time ago. OUT OF SCHOOL just like her WISH !
kumsiahamida on July 30, 2010 at 3:37 pm
This teen has serious anger and violence issues. I think the parents also dunno what to do with this girl. I wonder how are the parents like?
kumsiahamida on July 30, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Too bad, nowadays secondary schools doesn’t have public canning system.
kumsiahamida on July 30, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Should cane her hand in the public for her bad behaviour and mischief to wake her up. Of course must seek parents approval.
darklight12345 on July 30, 2010 at 3:42 pm
I remember last time when in my school days. Got one student also 14 years old. He take broom stick and beat the teacher. The teacher block and his hand end-up in hospital. Then he go and throw a chair at the woman’s teacher.
It take many student to hold him down. Even me have to pull him until we all got tired of it. And we are all 14 years old. We have to block his attempt to hit the teacher. Taking tables, taking brooms, taking stick. WOW LIAO !
He been cane, He been punish. No use one. Standing in front of the school. Until lastly he got sack by the school. So his father sent him to learn how to repair car in the end. He go work in the workshop and we never see him again.
I strongly recommend people like them go to the working life.
Don’t stay in School. It’s a waste of time.
Let LIFE teach them. Not the school.
I believe. This kids belong to him now. Since now I am already 40.
Same DNA. No use family. Better end the LINE. All go and died.
ocean911 on July 30, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Well, that’s the end result of an individual’s upbringing. At home, when parents enforce strict discipline, they say it child abuse. In school when educators enforce the school rules, they get beaten up or complaint. In some cases, either one of the parties will go to the police to lodge a police report against each other and even worst case, turning to the media for attention or gain sympathy from the public.
Are we breeding new generation of hooligans,bullies or someone who can contribute to the society now? Counselling address to violent individual and how often the successful rate achieved? By sending those hardcore or violent students to Court will ruined their future?
If this trend is going to persist on, most of the innocent students will be the one who suffer the worst. How about setting up a 10 days BOOT CAMP by the prison department for this ugly individual to correct their mindset and be a more responsible person to our society in future before they ruin themselves and ruin what we have today.
darklight12345 on July 30, 2010 at 3:50 pm
weizhang05
You go and do loh. You see one time. You got cock. GO inside. You got hole. It overturn inside out.
I seen it long time ago. The teacher head got bleeding. Blood in his hands. The female teacher got a BLACK EYE. All the students go and hold him down. We have to sit on him to hold him ! And in GANGS like 7 student to 1 student.
And that is in 1989 OK !
So now you know. Such people cannot be stop. Must go out to the working life or prison.
Even parents call also no use lah. I tell you it take violence to solve violence people.
zmmoe on July 30, 2010 at 3:55 pm
This girl may have bad experience and bad friends. Her parent also have responsibility for her. May be she do not have enough breast feeding and drink a lot of cow milk and so sometime like … may be no enought heart warm love touch from her parents or may be from movies.
My elder son always bully my younger son as he like to see cat & mouse cartoon movie.
kenluckyl on July 30, 2010 at 3:57 pm
What’s happening to the school? Did the teachers from this school treat the girl fairly before she turned violent? There’s no reason the girl would turn violent without valid reason. That’s the problem with problematic school. Should just close down the school and reflect on all the issues and rectify them before re-opening the school. MOE on its part should start to educate children on Moral Education rather than to think of becoming the number ones.
egplaininfo on July 30, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Am I surprised ? No not at all parents these days have very little time for their kids and even if they do, they do not correct them when there is the need to do so. Most kids spend so much of time on computers, tv and handphones and therefore there is little time to interact and therefore kids do not know how to communicate or even behave. The values they get from internet etc is absolutely of no help. Finally who is to blame the parents and the way they they upbring their kids.
excuse2010 on July 30, 2010 at 4:06 pm
If the teacher really care on the student she won’t go to police station to file a report, because that will upgrade the status of the student in the school and the world of “BAD GIRL”. That also cut off the return road to become a “GOOD GIRL” in the school and society. I don’t think by stopping the student from knocking a book will cause such a behaviour. I’m more interested to find out what is the real cause of her to be so agitated then just blame the girl and their parent. Last but not least, statistics show a lot of great people are bad children when they are young.
youlahthan on July 30, 2010 at 4:06 pm
zmmoe on July 30, 2010 at 3:55 pm
This girl may have bad experience and bad friends. Her parent also have responsibility for her. May be she do not have enough breast feeding and drink a lot of cow milk and so sometime like … may be no enought heart warm love touch from her parents or may be from movies.
My elder son always bully my younger son as he like to see cat & mouse cartoon movie.
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Are you saying you did not give enough breast milk to your son??
youlahthan on July 30, 2010 at 4:08 pm
excuse2010 on July 30, 2010 at 4:06 pm
If the teacher really care on the student she won’t go to police station to file a report, because that will upgrade the status of the student in the school and the world of “BAD GIRL”. That also cut off the return road to become a “GOOD GIRL” in the school and society.
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I wish you were the teacher and/or her parents. Let’s see how you handle this.
manaeiou on July 30, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Send her to Africa to be a sex slave for a few years then take her back. That’ll shut her up.
dnboo on July 30, 2010 at 4:11 pm
She is to be pitied. Our education system only cares for the compliant ones and those who know how to please or “angkat” the teacher. This poor girl found herself caught up in a system where she cannot compete with the others to please the teachers and is using another outlet for attention.
darklight12345 on July 30, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Teacher to care about the student ? “LOVE” ? Are you crazy. the job is to teach. Unless you willing to pay.
Excuse2010.
The world is a cruel place. Everytime you eat “CHICKEN WING”. One chicken have to died for you for your time on earth.
Try to understand. You should be grateful to be live as a human. If you are the chicken on the table. You died like sh1t man.
levifarmer on July 30, 2010 at 4:13 pm
this is a reflection of what kind of upbringing we have to make our new generation today. nothing much to blame on, except our own mindset value has changed.
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komentarista on July 30, 2010 at 4:31 pm
not a place to bring up a child.
zmmoe on July 30, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Because of modern life , teacher have a lot of responsibilities and pressure, as parent, teach knowledge & skill, like police, and so on. But they can not do as a parent and police. According to eastern culture, student must respect to teacher or else they can not learn very well. Good knowledge and good powerfull skill is only benefit for good personal. Bad personal do not appreciate it and can not use it efficiently. This is natural rule, there is light, dark is run aways. Every parent have responsibility to switch their children to be good. Parent responsibility start from pregnancy, Mother have to listen music, postive thinking and so on.
csltay8033 on July 30, 2010 at 4:42 pm
What the world needs now is Love Sweet Love…
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Every kids have to be taught to love oneself first, then love others & our mother nature right at the very beginning…
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Parents play a very important responsibilities first at home then follow by school teachers…not domestic workers first…
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Once a “mould” is not properly form right in the first place, it is extremely impossible to revert to its original form…Sigh.
arichandran on July 30, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Dear Bro&Sis
Please do think from student and parent perspective, do not write which is not going to lead for good, I am sure this could have happened due to her mental illness, Student need to be taken to a psychological and taken care to over come her behavioral issues, this usually happen due to stress or disability that occurs in an individual
Thanks
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mmeinsg on July 30, 2010 at 4:52 pm
That ‘troubled’ 14 year-old’s behaviour is tolerable in a THREE-YEAR-OLD but any age older deserves disciplinary measures appropriate to age. Infantile, selfish, brainless is what I’ll call it to stop short of calling it criminal. A 12 year old is already capable of making the beginnings of wise and considered decisions and is definitely capable of decisions that consider the welfare of others before self. To detractors who support the notion that 14-year-olds cannot take personal responsibility for their own actions are definitely uninformed about human-development. To reinforce this view is to reinforce a blaming attitude that leads to future failures in life.
To the parents who worry about their children getting bad records, that’s a lot of boulderdash considering that society would be kinder to the individual’s indiscriminations at a tender age than when they are all grown-up and generally viewed as incorrigible. Is it better to have a bad record when you’re teachable and mouldable than when you’re set in your ways and expected to behave with rationality? The law is very clear on this – once a person reaches majority age, there is no return. The bad record becomes a permanent black-mark (unless the child intends to make her mark in mafiadom). Spare the rod and spoil the child (for life).
Discipline need not be harsh but must be firm and enables the child or teen to make sensible decisions to prepare them for an independent and successful life among society. It is better to have a bad record now than later when society is less forgiving. You still have a chance to make good.
zmmoe on July 30, 2010 at 4:52 pm
to youlahthan on July 30, 2010 at 4:06 pm
He is now 3+ and still breast feeding + cow milk. He love very much his younger brother but sometime he follow action of cat at movie. I have to minimize him to see crual movie and let him know that doing bad thing will come back only bad things. So i have a cane. They so clever that They always hide my cane and break my cane. Now, i have very short cane and have to keep at high place. Whenever i cane them, my heart pain but i have to because i do not want them to be caned by court or by others because this will damage to them permanently.
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rhinomode1979 on July 30, 2010 at 5:06 pm
I believe the teacher have every right to report to the police what, if in coming event the student decide to use the knife, and the principal again will say the same thing, just because you have BF does not give you the right to hit anybody, talking to the student should stop, the more you give in to their BF behave the more their bold to become, should sent them straight to girl home, if not there will never learn. I support the teacher all the way, if no one want to defend her, she have every right to defend her self… For the principal just because you want to keep your school reputation, you close one eyes, As the wise PCK said: USE YOU BRAIN…
globalalert2002 on July 30, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Bring back canning to school system
kittywee on July 30, 2010 at 5:22 pm
After reading the news, I am quite sad that there are still such inccident happens in Singapore. I began to worry, why this happen. I am a mother of two boys. They are so young and loving. But hearing the soceity still have such gangster around. It really worries me a lot. Althought school, have taken action against such cases. But still I think most importantly have to work with families with such behaviour child. I think that girl learns from her father or both parents. Actually, I am also a victum too. I came from a school which public says is O You Tang!. Mean Oil and Diesel school. But that school came a very good Discipline Master. I began to enjoy the school. Cos that school full of gangster and groups trial too. Even the younger Secondary level also affected by those cultural. All been resolve when that Good Discipline Master came and change the whole situation.
Rules have been carried out, outsider from another school gangster had been wide out as well. Been warn and also collaborate with the Negihbourhood police force too.
All the older Secondary level left and slowly the younger Secondary level follows the school rules and everything turn out to be well manner and behave. I must say teachers and Discipline Master does a great job. Cos teachers had show concern and also hear what students had face and felt. They also shows they are friends amoung the students. Also when Students get emotional confuse or afraid, they can seek for discipline master or teachers for help.
vereneonn on July 30, 2010 at 5:24 pm
If a child turns out bad, it’s the parents’ responsibility.
Instead of getting angry, maybe that teacher can make an effort to check out the 14-yrs-old family background and see if she could help by talking to her parents.
That 14-yrs-old may not come from a good home with loving parents or maybe her parents never had time for her while she was growing up.
This could be the reason why she has become a bad teenager. Even if the school punishes her for her bad conduct, it will not help her to become a better person.
excuse2010 on July 30, 2010 at 5:25 pm
It takes thousand of year to evolve medical to become what we are now. Are you expecting behavioural counselling in a short time frame. I hope her counsellor can learn from this incident.
kittywee on July 30, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Also teachers should not just teach the subjects, but also show good moral values too. If a student have lack his or her studies, do offer help and show concern. Don’t be like their parents who only know how to scold or nag the old method way. As those students, what they think and what they want first. Show them example, why they are not ready for certain matter. I am sure those students are very independent and smartest too. They also don’t want to do something stupid.
Most of all teacher, DM and families memebers should acknowledge and accept students/ child who they are and what they are. Not just point to their poor results but also aware of what they are facing, like school stress or family stress.
Sometimes, you never know a healthy family does comes with an unemotional stable child. Parents just don’t get it.
Lucky for me, I seek for professional help cos I am afraid I will be like my father who had problem in his anger manangement. To be sad I also have the same behaviour like my father. But I seek my family help and also professional help to control my emotional and also low self esteem.
Now I am much happier as I expand my friendship life and also avoiding sensitive issue to out break my sad memory.
My reward, one day my both son wake up and run to me.
Saying “Mummy I Love you!” Mummy not sad, I here protect you. I throw them away. hurt you, make u cry.
This is very rewarding. When they know what you are facing.
kittywee on July 30, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Sad also heard orchard road cases, killing a man. And some are teens. I am really shock. sad and fustrated. I hope my both kids will never have to face such thing at all.