Prof asks pupils to quit, become prostitutes

Bullying doesn't just occur among students. There are teachers who pick on and intimidate students too.

A secondary school teacher in South East Asia, Lim, told her female students to quit school and become prostitutes. It may have seemed like a harmless joke to her, but to the girls it was an outrageous remark.

Parents of her students reacted to the gross insults. They were upset that the teacher had belittled the girls in such a manner.

"It saddens me that the students had to hear those words from their own teacher," says Tan who was equally upset with the teacher's snide remarks.

"As a teacher, she should encourage her students to strive for excellence and not come up with statements that demean and demoralise them," she adds.

In another incident in Singapore, a Form One student Tang Wai Zhe, was allegedly assaulted by a trainee teacher and was later offered S$20 by the school authorities to hush up the matter.

Meanwhile, a 13-year-old boy from Alor Setar, Muhammad Iqllas Firdaus Abdullah, claimed that he was slapped after a teacher accused him of using an improper word against another teacher.

And in yet another case which drew much attention, a male discipline teacher Ismazi Megat Ismazi Ismail, 49 from a secondary school in Pandan Indah, Ampang Jaya, had allegedly molested 11 female students on the pretext of checking their heartbeat.

He has since been charged in court and transferred out of the school.

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