Errant blogger again, and so I have one of my long-term readers to thank for this one – the two links at the bottom of this post are to the full story. I’m told this happened at a fairly small school in Taiping, Malaysia and the girls are in Pri 2 (is that still 8 years old like when we used to go to school? Cos there are a lot of different systems here, at Rockstar’s school within the ESF umbrella that age translates to Y4, his current year):
- top girl’s mum gets called by second girl’s mum after a school concert rehearsal where the girls have been informed of their form positions early so they will be going up onstage to receive prizes. Which is about when any school administrators reading will be doing this:
pic from dailymail.co.uk
- Over the phone, top girl’s mum is told by second girl’s mum that they’ve borrowed her daughter’s exam papers to compare answers. Even as everyone else who didn’t previously, is now going:
pic from dailymail.co.uk
- When top girl’s mum goes to see the headmaster/asst headmaster, she learns that second girl went to see them the day before with her mum, crying.
- Top girl’s mum is informed that her daughter’s paper was marked wrongly and position in form will be changed after it is corrected. In other words:
pic from sites.psu.edu
- Fortunately it appears top girl’s class teacher then told top girl’s mum the position wouldn’t change
, so no one has to die. - The mums
duke it outdiscuss this in civilised manner ending in handshakes in a meeting arranged by the PTA.
My comment: Saw these aunties in HK who sit under one of the flyovers and for (used to be) HKD 20, they will write the person’s name on say, a paper, and take the traditional wooden clog to hammer it and scold them. It’s called the Beating The Small Person Service. (“Small” person is metaphoric for “cheap” person I guess, someone who takes cheap shots.)
In other words, that’ll tell you whether people who take cheap shots exist in abundance, there is an actual “service” for which you pay money. You might not believe in it, but you’d possibly get a great deal of satisfaction and NO jail time for taking a hit out on a piece of paper (“Paper Must Dieee”) instead of an actual person…
Note candles to the lady in grey jacket’s right.
I know about beating the small person in HK but I am not sure whether there is such a service here or not. LOL!