民青团总秘书刘华才博士今日对日前新山一所寄宿学校的3位教师引用过度严厉与苛刻的体罚方式来训导17名中五学生的事件感到遗憾。据报载，这些学生因为上载一段有关他们发泄压力的短片至优管，结果遭3名教师掌掴、拳打脚踢，甚至强迫脱下裤子做700下伏地挺身。
"我在阅读了这则新闻后感到惊讶与无言，教师何以如此对待他们的学生？学生被指示在他们的同学面前做伏地挺身，这对他们来说简直是一种侮辱。更糟的是他们被迫脱掉裤子，这肯定将对这些学生造成一生的创伤。"
刘华才博士继而谴责这3位教师，并指责他们的行为是可耻的，因为教师应通过爱的方式与教育对犯错的学生循循善诱。这起事件只是最近多宗教师涉及滥用职权对学生进行体罚与羞辱的其中一宗，此前也曾发生教师通过种族性辱骂的词语来侮辱学生的事件。
"我了解有些学生或许会过于胡闹而很难管教，但是如果教师本身也如此以最恶劣的方式来应对状况，那他们与其他没受过师资训练的人们又有何分别？毕竟还有很多种训导方式是可以采用以应对状况的。"
同时也是思特雅国际大学的刘华才博士促教育部认真地探讨这项问题，以避免类似的事件再次发生。他也希望师训学院可从这起事件中学习，并作为培训师训学员学习解决问题技能的参考。
"我认为现今很多教师都备受现实生活的压力，例如过多的工作量，导致缺乏私人生活时间等，这造成增加他们所默默承受的焦虑与压力，而这都是教育部必须加以关注的。"
Gerakan Youth deplores teachers' harsh treatment to students
Dominic Lau says this will traumatise the students for life
Press statement by Gerakan Youth Secretary General
Dr. Dominic Lau Hoe Chai
20 November 2012
Gerakan Youth Secretary General, Dr. Dominic Lau Hoe Chai deplores the recent harsh methods used by 3 teachers to discipline a group of 17 Form Five students from a broading school in Johor Bahru, where the students were forced to do 700 push-ups and strip down their pants.
"I am at a lost for words upon getting the news. How can the teachers do this to their students? It is total humiliation for the students having to do 700 push-ups in front of their peers. What is even worse is that they are also forced to strip down. This will surely traumatise the students for life."
Dr. Dominic Lau further condemned the 3 teachers by saying that this is a disgraceful act as teachers should be educating and disciplining their students in a humane way. This incident is one of the latest news of teachers abusing their powers to humiliate their students in the pretext of disciplining them. Previously there were incidents where teachers who insulted their students with racial slurs.
"I understand that students are bound to be mischievous and can be hard to deal with, but if the teachers themselves stoop so low to handle the situation, what is the difference between them and untrained people? As for disciplining methods, there are many ways to control the situation."
Dr. Dominic Lau, also UCSI associate professor urged the Ministry of Education to seriously review this matter to prevent such incidents from happening again. He also hoped that teacher training institutes would take this incident as an example to train their students on problem solving skill.
"I think that many teachers are also exposed to real life stress such as having too many workloads while at the same time just having very little time for their private lives. This could increase the anxiety and pressure suffered silently by our teachers which the Ministry of Education should take heed."
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