Teacher cuts pupil's hair, mum files police report

This is a public school. What the ministry can do [before an incident], I've already described in the above post. If there are issues with the disciplinary actions, then there are avenues to raise them e.g. complaints to the ministry, the principal etc.; if the issue is valid an investigation would be set up and the usual downstream processes that we wouldn't hear about would begin. The government does... relatively little. It's not as if every punishment must go through the ministry first before being met out... such centralisation is impractical.

What kind of oversight do you mean? Like making sure that such incidents don't occur? I mean... this is a fairly rare incident - and now that beating the student (in any form) by teachers is no longer allowed (and has been hammered in like nobody's business in the teaching academy) (and caning not counted, because it must go through the principal now), we don't see much of such things. So... I'm not sure how much having governmental oversight would help in reducing such incidents - sack the teacher and send out a warning to all? That nearly backfired before.

Hey Dean, did you hear PM Lee's rally? Just like what we're seeing now. Some parents complain that teachers are too soft, some complain that teachers are too strict. Wth do we do?

Hadriel