Pros & Cons

The 5-year-old sent home with faeces in his backpack..

This is one of the news reported on The Times newspaper today and it attracts my attention. you can read it by clicking on the title. and my first impression, why on earth did they put this on? but, hang on...the story is not the interesting part. the comments are. lets us see:

What a stupid story. My sympathies are definitely with the teacher.

Posted by: Grayman | 30 Apr 2009 07:13:09

This is so familiar - my son used to do things like that and it was percieved as bad behaviour. That approach caused more problems than it solved!! Many years later he was finally diagnosed as having Crohns disease - which is a chronic lifelong bowel problem.
In many cases he just couldnt get to the toilet in time.
Teachers are normally medically clueless and only see bad behaviour.

Posted by: peter | 30 Apr 2009 07:18:10

There they are, the pros & cons. so which party is in the right position? in my opinion, no one is. it depends on how the journalist himself plays with the words and of course; different mind, different thoughts. it is so fascinating to see different people with different way of thinking wrote their comments about this news that someone like me; who thinks it just a piece of crap, would just spill out the first thought came on mind. yes, i would like to ask what's the motive they wrote this one on such a newspaper, which is said to be one of the tabloid-free paper. but try to put oneself on other's shoe; for instance the parents themselves. they are so worried about their son's education and think that maybe the teacher may have gone way too far.

what about the teacher's shoe then? i dont know what she was thinking by sending the young lad with a bag of faeces . and this one:

We are Definitely not being told the full story here!

Posted by: Samara | 30 Apr 2009 04:06:48

yes, the journalist got the blame. he is the one who controls reader's mind. i definitely agree with samara as the story is so short and the words were only from the parent's side. but hey, nobody can satisfy each and everyone. being a professional in all kinds of situation would definitely get the respect. again, but, there is something lacking somewhere because one thinks no one's perfect. :P

p/s: i admit by writing this post based on only two comments would be bias. like i said, mind-controlling. but, there's no way i can post all the comments here, write every point based on each comment. that would be nonsense. and the comments keep coming all the time. am being realist here and for sure, this is just one brain talking.



-did this just for fun.....revision! god xp-