YOURSAY | Rot in education system revealing itself in Ain’s case
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Dr Raman Letchumanan: The government, Education Ministry, National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP), and the school principal seem to have ganged up on this girl, who went public with a complaint and for good reasons.
A teacher allegedly telling a mixed class of teens about who best to rape is not a joke. It is more hideous, given that this is an advice on how to rape and get away with it.
Whatever the reason, the school should have proactively settled this matter, considering the seriousness of the misconduct. The girl went public after the school did not take her complaint seriously.
COMMENT | Education Ministry must intervene in Ain s possible expulsion
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COMMENT | We are outraged by SMK Puncak Alam’s warning notice of expulsion to Ain Husniza Saiful Nizam, especially in light of the lack of transparent penalties against the teacher who made the rape comments amongst his students in a class session on sexual harassment, where Ain was present.
There seems to be a string of unchecked and increasingly brazen displays of power by figures of authority within educational institutions in an attempt to punish Ain for speaking out about her teacher’s rape jokes.
First, there were the online lewd comments about Ain’s body shape and breast size allegedly from teachers in response to her TikTok video. A week later, the secretary-general of the National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) openly contested the widespread sexual harassment and rape culture in schools, when hundreds of current and former students have already come forward online
LETTER | Student welfare should be taken seriously by NUTP
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LETTER | The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG), Bulan Sisters and Pertubuhan Pembangunan Kendiri Wanita dan Gadis (WOMEN:girls) would like to address justifications that were given by the secretary-general of the National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP), Harry Tan, on
Astro Awani’s Consider This programme on May 5 for the union’s opposition to the National School Walkout Day (NSWD).
Firstly, Tan noted that NSWD was being unfair to all 450,000 teachers nationally by projecting the image of teachers “lurking around and harming students” and “waiting to make and crack jokes about (rape)”. Whilst we agree with Tan in that not all teachers are perpetrators, he refuses to understand that NSWD aims to raise public awareness of the systemic nature of sexual harassment, rape and abuse in schools.
Stakeholders and interest groups denounce lack of action over rape joke NORMAN HIU/ THESUN.
PETALING JAYA: Victim-blaming and denial have become the default mode when Malaysia responds to the issue of sexual harassment.
The latest episode is that of an exposé by a student on a teacher cracking a joke about rape at school, followed by his union representative’s demand for “facts” and arguing that there are other “bigger problems”.
In an interview with Astro Awani yesterday, National Union of the Teaching Profession secretary-general Harry Tan (pix) asked for “facts and statistics” to prove that sexual harassment at school was widespread.