Monday, October 13, 2008

Case of the Missing Pengetua

Today I received some news from many parents that the PMR students went back to the school for some briefing last Friday. Most teachers were there to wish the students success in their examination. Puan Lee (in her usual grin and smile) continuously whispered 5 sweet words to the students and the words were “Make sure Get Straight “A”.

I then asked the parents what did the Pengetua said? To my shocking surprise, the Pengetua wasn’t even in school. Apparently she was away in a course and won’t be in school next week during the PMR examination. What kind of Pengetua do we have who put her personal ambition (by attending a course) first instead of her students? She should have asked that she attend the course at a later date or even defer it as she should be around to give moral support to the students. This is also not the first time she does her famous "missing acts".

As such I let me summarize the following and I hope that the Pengetua and all of us will take note.

  • Missing during most part of the PIBG 2008 AGM.
  • Missing during Hari Bakat.
  • Missing at the Cheer Leaders competition.
  • Missing from some of the important soccer tournament whereby SMKBUD4 were playing in crucial qualifying matches.
  • Missing “Hari Temu Mesra”
  • Missing from all the “Majlis Suaikenal PIBG (which she got Puan Rose to provide the "excuse" that it was Puan Rose that requested the Pengetua not to attend)
  • Missing most of the time when officers from the kerajaan went to the school to enquire about the complaints raised by the parents.
  • Missing in school when parents go there to look for you.
  • Missing in school when students are looking for you.
  • And NOW the grand finale – Missing when your students are about to sit for the PMR examination and during the week of the PMR examination.

Honestly what kind of Pengetua are you. On the 9th August meeting, one parent has pointed out the importance of you (as the Pengetua) to be there to render your support to your students as you would be like a family to them when they are in school. Instead you push these students aside and place your personal goals and ambitions ahead of them. This is indeed very very and extremely SELFISH of you.

With this incident created, the parents and most students would now expect you to be away during the SPM. Maybe after this posting, you will force yourself to stay.

It seem that after the 9th August meeting, you still haven’t change your ways. The minutes of the meeting is still pending or rather MISSING and the PIBG is dead silence and also seem to be MISSING.

The simplest answer to all these problems is to transfer our children out of the school. My reply is why we must let one selfish PERSON make us go through all the trouble of transferring our children when we can UNITE and transfer the PERSON OUT. We cannot be selfish like the Pengetua or we will end up just like her. Transfering our chidren out would only solve our own problem, what about those that stay back in the school. We must also care and consider other students and other parents that still have children studying in the school.

One parent has posted a message as where we can make our complaints about the school. I strongly urge all parents to write in and express your issues to

Puan Ashah bt Samah
ashah.samah@sel.moe.gov

I advise all parents to write to her. She is a very nice person and would welcome your emails even if it’s written in English. We need to update Puan Ashah the urgency of this matter.

Please write to Puan Ashah now and let's unite together and resolve this matter. We must show to the Pengetua that the parents of SMKBUD4 cares and dares.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear Administrator, you have rightly put across the salient point of your message ie we all must UNITE and not be hesitant - i must say having spoken to several parents on this matter a lot of them are either afraid of the consequences or 'tidak apa' attitude and of course the worst ones are 'why should i be the one to do the dirty work' - very sad indeed!
Having said that to those who are hesitant please be mindful that it is crucial for all of us to take some positive action - Puan Ashah according to her peers in the jabatan is a very effective leader and truly a professional - i believe she can be fair in her execution of duties - unless there are obstacles beyond her. Therefore we must get our act and make the noise - it is not about what colour and race you belong or religion we commit ourselves to, it is about our children's rights to a properly run school with a right healthy and happy environment for them to grow and develop their best abilities and talents.

Anonymous said...

oolala

Anonymous said...

to me, all BU schools suck. no point starting a blog to change, because you can't. you're just being childish. if you don't want your child to learn under this system, then change school la. you wanna be a coward? show yourself! write official letters to PIBG so that they can take action. PIBG ain't gonna take action just because somebody wrote nasty things about the system. official letters WITH names are the way to go.

peace be with you.

PS : i still think this school sucks, but better than BU2 lah hehe

Anonymous said...

dear anonymous above me,

If you're from our school,shame on you for being so pessimistic. If everyone in the world acts like you,the world would be doomed.If you really think our school sucks that badly,then you're most appreciated to leave.

If you're not from our school, who asked you to come here?This is our school issues, you're most unwelcomed here.

Anonymous said...

better let it flow by its own