Assalamualaikum dan hai, nama saya Leo dan berumur lima belas tahun.
Now I hope you don’t mind since I’m going to speak in english (because this is easier for me). Please bear with my grammar mistakes since I’m not
so perfect in english. Okay now, based on the title, I wanted to talk about punishments in school.
What kind of punishments? Obviously it is the punishments you get a lot if you are a bad kid in school. ‘Rotan’ ‘campak buku’ ‘tampar’ ‘tampar kawan’ and so on. You guys might have different opnions about this matter. ‘Those who are not punished are often have ill behavior’, ‘those who are punished more than they deserve often leave a traumatic experience in their life’, ‘they will develop a grudge against the teachers’, ‘I become a human being because of these’, ‘nowadays people is too soft’ etc.
Meanwhile I do agree these punishments is what make me a good kid today, I also have to disagree that violence is the answer to silence these naugthy kids. Do you ever imagine the side effects of nowadays kids if you keep using violence against them? For example, kids nowadays have to learn to read at such very young age. Not to mention they also have to learn a lot of basic things at the same time. Did you know? Kids nowadays develop anxiety and depression earlier than the kids generations before them. So, imagine if they are stressed and they are labeled as ‘naughty kids’ and got punished a lot to the point they thought they are good for nothing.
Also, a lot of these problematic kids came from a very unhealthy family. I once sit in the last class so I know them better than some of the teachers. What I can see, these punishments are often have negative impact than positive one. When you use violence against them, they start to get aggresive and mad, often ended with not so nice experience.
I can see why the goverment are trying to develop a friendly method rather than violence method against them. Since I have a lot of overseas friends, I often ask them about this and do research. And recently I accidentally read about a western’s social experiment towards the students. It was like this, they divided the students into a few groups. Lets say they have four groups.
Now, these first two groups get the nicest teachers (A) . The teachers would not get mad at them, friendly and have a deep passion in teaching. Meanwhile the other two groups got a not so nice teachers (B), would get mad when they make mistakes and so on. The earlier result shows that the two groups with nice teachers get a better exam score than the other two who got not so nice teachers.
Then, they decided to switch their place. Now, the Group A got not so nice teachers while group B got nice teachers. After a few weeks, the result shows that group B got higher exam scores than group A.
They also discovered that those groups that get nice teachers would not afraid to ask questions, develop interest in the subject and feel happier. Meanwhile the groups that get not so nice teachers have backward effects.
Back to the initial point, I think these ‘punish’ method are both suited and not suited for us malaysia. Here what I think after a bit of thinking, I think in the earliest age (1-6) teachers should treat them nicely because my kindergarten are also the same, as a result, i was born with a great leader like skill. and at the age of (7-9) teachers should treat them as a STUDENT with not so extreme punishment so that the lesson they learn will stay with them.
And then, (10-11) i think they should be treated like a slave if they refuse to follow the rules. And finally (12+) they should be treated as a friend because this is where they start to grow mature and see the difference between right and wrong.
Maybe some of you will said I’m still a kid and etc. But this is my own opnion. Because a lot of us complained about common sense, our discipline etc. From what I can see as a kid, I copy what I see and the result is I have what you guys call ‘common sense’ like keeping our trash until we see a rubish can, helping those stray animals when they are cold or hungry, wait for people when in elavator when im near the button etc. Thank you and sorry for the messy points.
– Mikail
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