Friday August 21, 2009
Students stay away after teacher dies
Subang Jaya: Attendance was low at SMK USJ12 yesterday judging by the number of vehicles dropping off students outside the school before the morning session.
Despite the school conducting an extra-curricular assessment exercise, many students chose to skip school after a teacher died on Wednesday morning from severe pneumonia and multiple organs failure.
Rumours were abound that Chai Mee Feng had passed away due to complications from the Influenza A(H1N1) virus, although parents reported that school authorities had denied this.
Although the school allowed morning session students to call their parents to pick them up from school on Wednesday morning, a notice was later put up at the school gate stating that the school would operate as usual for the Wednesday afternoon session as well as yesterday and today.
Low attendance: Very few students were seen trickling into SMK USJ 12 for the morning session yesterday, following the death of one of the teachers the day before. The teacher’s death was rumoured to be from the Influenza A(H1N1) virus, but was later reported to be from pneumonia and multiple organs failure. For some parents, it was school as usual for their children as assessments and preparation for the PMR and SPM exams are on-going.
“A teacher told me it was confirmed that her colleague didn’t die from the A(H1N1) virus, and I didn’t want my daughter to skip school as she is taking the PMR this year,” said one mother after dropping her daughter off at the school.
One father kept his daughter at home as she is having a sore throat, but came to find out the situation at the school.
“The school is suppose to be having the extra-curricular assessment today, so I was wondering if it is still on as it would affect my daughter’s marks,” he said.
Efforts to contact the school authorities were unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, SK USJ 20 was asked to close by the Health Ministry on Wednesday afternoon until Aug 25 when two positive cases were reported there.
As the school holidays begin next week, this means that pupils of the school will only resume their studies on Sept 1.
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