SEGAMAT: Preventive measures must be enhanced to handle disciplinary problems in schools, especially bullying and gangsterism, said Education Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid.
Mahdzir when commenting on a schoolboy who is said to have fed his alleged bully a plate of noodles laced with roach poison, said the school, State Education Department and District Education Office must take proactive measures to prevent indiscipline in schools becoming a serious problem.
“We have to double our efforts to prevent disciplinary cases in schools. We must use micro targeting and start counselling or monitoring students identified with discipline problems.
“I was speechless when I was informed about the latest case but we have to face such situation because it is our responsibility to safeguard the community and ensure the education system in the country remain relevant,” he told reporters in Sekijang, here yesterday.
Mahdzir who is also an Umno Supreme Council member earlier opened the Sekijang Umno Division delegates meeting which was also attended by Umno Sekijang Division chief Datuk Dr Baharum Mohammad and 325 delegates.
Local dailies had on Friday reported that a Form 1 schoolboy who was a victim of bullying had retaliated by giving noodles laced with poison to the boy who had bullied him at SMK Sri Aman in Sarawak.
The victim who unknowingly consumed the poisoned noodles was taken to hospital after he started vomiting.
Police are said to be investigating the case. — Bernama