Wednesday, January 16, 2013

To Force or To Enforce

Star Q


Gone are the days when students (and teachers included) only have one (or two at the most!) types of attire to wear.  Students have their normal school uniform to wear from Monday to Thursday; and for the Malays they wear their traditional uniform on Friday.  Now however, the students have to buy a different attire for their societies, sports and uniform bodies.  And for some, a different set deemed as the corporate attire!

The situation is not dissimilar with that of the teachers.  Gone are the days when male teachers only had one type of attire to wear, that is their long-sleeved shirt with slacks and ties (at least ten different shirts)  Now, male teachers have to contend with almost a different set of attire per day.  On Monday, it is the normal long-sleeved shirt plus slacks plus tie.  On Tuesday, it's the corporate attire.  Wednesday sees the male teachers wearing a uniform of some kind; Scouts, Police Cadets for example.  On Thursday will see them wearing the school's official batik shirt and on Friday it's the traditional Malay costume complete with head gear and 'samping'!

The sad thing is, the idea of wearing these different attires every day is forced upon the teachers to the point of blackmail.  A senior teacher was noted as saying 'If you do not wear these clothes (referring mainly to the 'Wednesday' attire!) it will affect the assessment of your work performance!

These teachers worry about the money factor incurred when acquiring these new attires and the fact that they are not at all comfortable when worn during teaching (aside from the fact that the teaching environment itself is not suitable in the first place!)  To make matters worse, they have to be blackmailed into wearing them.

On the hindsight, forcing (they say enforcing!) teachers to acquire different attires only serves their bloated and pompous purpose which is to show other people that they can have these teachers well under their control; behaving like robots in the palms of their hands.


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