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http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_dis...hread_id=279198 I was at Yishun MRT NTUC earlier today about 715pm, and I heard this commotion. This woman was shouting at the top of her voice with all the f-words and other assortment of swear words at this cashier. Apparently the system overcharged her or something and the cashier had to scribble something on the receipt in order to refund the overcharged amount to the customer so that her cash total would balance for the day. But this woman was totally rude and acting like an animal towards the cashier, who said nothing back for all her abuses. She claimed she was a "f-ing English teach at Raffles Girls' Secondary" and her father is in the police. Is this how educated people should act? Is this how a schoolteacher should behave? Is this how a teacher from Singapore's top school should conduct herself? It is such a small issue and did this even justify making a scene over, and one with all the obscenities one can find in the English language? I wonder if she can be punished properly. An indian lady could not put up with her language told her to mind her language and reprimanded the security guard for not calling in the police for all the bad vocabulary that the "RGS teacher" was using. And the RGS teacher just kept swearing and swearing. The poor cashier just kept quiet and cried. This is simply not right. Any RGS girls know who is the teacher?

Duck! Here comes Super Teacher! Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:15 AM ET TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese teacher who threw a chair at his students was named "super teacher" by the local board of education despite having been reprimanded several times for using corporal punishment, a news agency said on Saturday. The 52-year-old high-school teacher in Kyoto has been awarded the title every year since 2005 in spite of a history of aggression in the classroom because his strict teaching methods improved his students' performance. He was punished three times between 1997 and 2001 for physically attacking students, including throwing a chair at the volleyball team he was coaching, and was again accused of corporal punishment this year, Kyodo news agency said. The teacher, who was not identified in the news agency report, resigned on Friday, having been on medical leave since the latest accusation. He was selected as a role model due to his "outstanding achievement in leading the volleyball team," Kyodo said, citing board officials. Japan's school system has been at the centre of heated political debate for some time. Some politicians have demanded stricter discipline at Japanese schools, including harsher forms of punishment, to improve overall standards. But others say that school children are already under too much pressure due to a heavy workload, a strict exam system and frequent cases of bullying.