Star Q
The news about the parent who was arrested by the police for threatening a certain headmaster (Star 26th August 2013) was something that finally allowed me to exhale. It had been many weeks since this headmaster was made a scapegoat by many people who think that they are well and above other people in the education arena in terms of knowing what is best for the students.
I am certain that Malaysians are aware of the circumstances in which the headmaster was involved in when an irresponsible and an ill-informed mother (surely she she didn't approach the school's administrators for clarifications) of one of the students of the school where the headmaster is an administrator, took some photos and purposely allowed them to go viral.
We also know (eventually, after the headmaster went through a hard time and scrutiny by the public and his superiors) that the headmaster was not really at fault. Thus, with his innocence, all the guilty parties who put him into the embarrassing and demoralising predicament, should in turn be brought to the front to bear the full brunt of their insidious actions, beginning with the person who initially spread the photos in the first place.
I mean, when this person proceeded to carry out an injustice to another innocent person, she should be ready to be prosecuted because as an adult, she should be aware that her actions would entail some kind of repercussions (it's not like she had some kind of memory lapse when she took the photographs; or maybe she has selective amnesia? What a coincidence!) The person who started the whole thing would have been following with interest the outcome of her conniving act (probably hoping for a glimpse of fame under the media limelight; or worse, actually hoping for the headmaster's conviction!)
We also know that being a government servant, the headmaster is expected to be all forgiving and say that everything is fine and life will go on as if nothing had happened. But what of the lady who instigated this national fiasco in the first place? At the very least, as bold and brave as she was to take the photos, make them go viral, then falsely accusing the headmaster and finally having the headmaster (and his family) undergo emotional stress and pain from all the judgemental eyes of the public and media, she should at least be equally brave and bold to come up to the headmaster and acknowledge the error of her ways and to ask that she be forgiven.
I for one think that it is highly unlikely that an irresponsible person will be responsible for her act.
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