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SHE took a collection of her students' mistakes, combined them into a parody and posted it on the Net.
The GP teacher, from a top junior college (we're not naming the JC to save the students further embarrassment), had put them in her online journal or blog under the title, Bad Engrish.
GO ahead and name her and the JC ... be my guest.. I won't humiliate the "kids" but I'll humiliate the teacher and the JC in question.. Just when some schools are shutting blogs down for the prospects of the teacher may be "deframed" in public, this shit happens.. Teachers and student were bad mouthing each other since the time there were teachers and sutdents, but a teachers doing this is like rubbing salt in the wound.. Not to mention really immature of them.
She says she did it to help her students in a fun way.
Yeah.. how fun will it be when WE talk shit about you failing your driving test for FIVE times or bitching about your choice of clothing when you look like... 55 yrs old?! How freaking fun will it be?
But most of the students and teachers we spoke to said it was mean.
One excerpt included this piece:
'I know that Singapore is a small dot in the globe but is giving aids to many countries and Indonesia is being hazy all the time.'
The entry was featured on local blogger bulletin tomorrow.sg, a site that routinely posts links to interesting blogs about different facets of Singapore life.
"FRIENDLY WAY " <= You got to be f**king kidding me
The teacher, who goes by the online moniker Ondine, confirmed with The New Paper that the entry was hers.
The 29-year-old teacher added that blogging about her students' mistakes was her way of correcting them in a friendly way, and that they do occasionally read her blog.
I wonder having "the finger" pointed to her would be correcting her accent or the fact that she never got married at her "old age"
She said: 'By using humour and parody, it would be less threatening for them.
'Trying to teach it in class was too much of an academic exercise.
'I wasn't scolding them for their mistakes - I was merely showing them what they were doing in a light-hearted and yet pointed manner.'
But did the teacher's good intentions come through?
A straw poll of 20 JC students and 20 teachers who read the entry indicated otherwise.
DUH!! You don't need a "poll" to know that.. ask any teen and they will be spitting "Hokkien bullets" at you. My responce would be "KNNBCCB! KNS! why the teacher here is like a low life sc*ms! F**k you to hell bit*h!!"
Fifteen of the students and 17 of the teachers polled felt the entry was mean-spirited, while just five students and three teachers thought it was funny and entertaining.
None saw it as educational. <= Another DUH of the day.. : )
Said Jessie Lim, 17, a first-year JC student: 'I don't like it that teachers gather round and get their amusement at our expense.
'It's their responsibility to help us improve. If we write poorly and fail our exams, it doesn't reflect well on the teaching either.
'If teachers can get on our case for being disrespectful to them in our blogs, they should respect us, too.'
Agreeing, Candice Ng, 18, a second-year JC student, said that many of her classmates who are weak in GP often stay back for remedial classes.
'They try really hard to improve. If they aren't trying, that's a different story - but to make fun of students who are actually trying - that's just mean.'
Teachers The New Paper spoke to also felt the blog entry was unnecessary, although a few did say that some students routinely make ludicrous spelling and grammar mistakes in their GP essays. (See report on facing page.)
RATHER CHILDISH <== Very true..
One GP teacher at a top JC, who declined to be named, said: 'It just seems rather childish to me - it's totally unnecessary to blog about your students' mistakes.
'It might be funny to some, but it could hurt the feelings of weaker students.'
Another GP teacher at a JC in the North zone said: 'Many of my students come from non-English-speaking families.
'Their command of the language is weak to begin with - add that to poor general knowledge, and that's where all the ridiculous mistakes come in.'
When asked if she thought students would take offence at the blog entry, Ondine maintained she didn't think they would.
'It wasn't taken from any person's piece of work - it really was just a parody of the different mistakes that I've come across through the course of teaching and observation,' she said.
FEEDBACK POSITIVE
She also said that feedback from her students about the Bad Engrish entry was mostly positive.
'Some have commented on how silly they must sound when they make such mistakes in class or in their writing.
'Those that I've talked to have taken it in good jest - some students have actually come up to me and told me that they check on one another now, to make sure they are not slipping when they talk to one another,' she added.
Now she is "checking on their speach?!" What's next huh? wearing a board like a sign saying "I am a fu*kin' moron and a retard in engrish. Please do laugh at me, tease me for all eternity and recougnise me for being a fu*king imbercile of the year" and ordering them to walk around school and the nearby neighbourhoods during recess? WTF?!
As you can see.. I'm not a really nice guy : )
In all honesty i DO NOT appreaciate any teacher who would stoop so low and do that kind of shit. Any teacher who does that to me personally will be "flammed at" (I'll give you the real meaning of that word throught may action, so don't say I didn't warn you!).. ok that's all i want to say about this issue. Anybody who had any teachers "flamming" at you just because you called her a "bitch who couldn't drive a car" and their responce on their blogs are on the lines of "that fu*king bast*rd", please comment on this blog entry... thanks! |