EXPOSED: Northland Secondary School Principal Leonard Koh’s
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EXPOSED: Northland Secondary School Principal Leonard Koh’s posts to his ex-students on Facebook
Posted by temasektimes on June 23, 2012
The Temasek Times has received two emails from MOE teachers complaining about the conduct of Leonard Koh Yiak Kheng, the principal of Northland Secondary School who was recently in the news for allegedly ‘stalking’ ex-students on Facebook:
We also received one PDF file containing over 100 snapshots of Mr Leonard Koh’s ‘interaction’ with his ex-students on Facebook including the ‘interesting’ pages and posts he liked and shared:
In many of the posts, Leonard Koh posted ‘nice’ on the photos of his ex-students some of whom were surprised at his comment. When asked how he found them on Facebook, he replied that he surfed it ‘randomly’.
He also requested to meet up in person with some of his ex-students one day:
“Hey, so nice to meet you online! Let’s meet up one day!”
According to our informant, MOE received the file last year which was circulated to other teachers as well, but chose to turn a blind eye to it.
While the comments were not crude or lewd, something is not right somewhere when an educator actively seeks out his ex-students (not only one, but more than a hundred and more) on Facebook with the intention of asking them out.
MOE should account to the public whether it is acceptable and appropriate for its teachers to engage in such form of ‘communication’ with their students, past and present on Facebook.
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Now he cannot run liao.....ST tried to cover his identity, MOE tried too. Wah thank god for new media, if not we'd be living in dark ages!
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tot they always say want the staff and students to 打�一片，培养感情?
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why never contact through alumni? why no male students?
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i like the comment "Nice...so 大女人!"
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He is just making friends with his ex-student.
How do you expect the ministry to act as he have commiting no crime in making friends ?
It is the parent that need to be questioned about asking so much questions.
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PR with alumni got wrong?
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how come he is ex-P?
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nothing worng mah - hes a man, got a dick, will be hard sometimes.
but, he has to have a job mah - skool principal can mah.
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So what is the problem with a school principal interacting with his EX-students?
They are EX-students right? Not under his institution's jurisdiction?
MOE is not doing anything, because there is nothing, no black and white stating staff under their jurisdiction cannot interact with EX-students.
And even more so with regards to interacting on online social media.
2 emails from MOE teachers to MOE, only shows one thing, employees with an axe to grind.
As much as we like alternative media like TT, and online citizen, sometimes we have to be our own judge, as honestly, these sites like to post kinda biased articles, really gotta take with a huge dose of salt.