I m down with the flu and I have mc for 2 days. Yay! The prelim exams are going on and for the first time yesterday and today - it ran without me in school. That shows the marks of a good system which I set in place. So I feel quite proud of that.
On another note not very happy in school. Especially where discipline is concerned. Its not very consistent. We had a case recently of a student who punched a teacher and the teacher was sacked immediately - the teacher had been giving prob before and was given a warning letter before. As for the student - they are still deciding as the parents appealed and threatened to go to the press. In the investigation that happened we found out the boy had joined hands with a another group of boys and was bullying another student like throwing up on his bag and so on. And the school is still sitting on the case even after a boy was punched by these guys. And today the boy has to be in the same class with them. Hope it goes well today and they removed the boy.
Yesterday I confiscated two handphones from my class students as the other students claimed they sent porno messages. Then when i checked their phones i found they had been exchanging messages in the morning during chinese class. So I asked them to get their parents to get their phones. The boys kow-towed to me and pleaded not to take their phones - both had warnings before. But I could feel that the class felt that I was being too harsh. It is yet a part of the local culture here - a lot of pple dont see that when they do something wrong there should be consequences. They feel sorry for the pple being punished and ask that they be forgiven. And this attitude prevails on all levels of society and thts why a lot of pple dont learn their lessons.