Chan Chun Sing on case of alleged assault at Admiralty Secondary School

[@Changl-M]

Jamus Lim then expressed concern over the limited or absent involvement of parents, particularly highlighting feedback from parents in Sengkang who felt that their outreach to school authorities, such as the discipline master, resulted in inadequate actions due to insufficient family involvement from the perpetrator’s side.

[@dutchmilk]

It is amazing how CCS find a way to blame the victim.

[@roselim9840]

Amaze how you found a way to blame our Minister If you have more than 1 kid, you will see how they fight, how one bullies others, how at least one of your own kid play victim. How do you discipline your own children? Do you blame the victim? Do you cane & post what the bully (your own kid) on social media?

[@sgfuture7114]

2 incidents reported but many are not reported lah...

[@joeyasl6388]

i agree... many not reported... the figures are the ones reported...hence they tink it's low...i heard abt this school problems long time before. it's the culture

[@chenghonggoh4746]

Too few MPs for the parliamentary sitting. The absent MPs are on CNY extended leave?

[@LiHongyiIAMPM]

They have jobs in private sector. PAP MPs chose not to attend. Singaporeans are not getting the bang for their buck. PAP MPs claimed to represent Singaporeans in Parliament during GE. This is not the case on the ground.

[@chenghonggoh4746]

@LiHongyiIAMPM just find this ridiculous. I checked. There are only thirty days of parliamentary sitting a year. So highly paid but not so hardworking workers. Singaporeans are the kindest bosses in the world. 😂

[@LiHongyiIAMPM]

@@chenghonggoh4746 would you commit your vote to opposition in the upcoming GE2025?

[@byebyefiat]

You also want to take leave right…..

[@chenghonggoh4746]

​@@byebyefiatIf I am as well paid as them and if company arranges for an important company event today, I will consider

[@pw8723]

Too lenient punishment. Bullying is mainly due to lack of severe punishment

[@bishan2281]

Ya... bully should be sacked... just like in the 60s...no turning back decision...

[@gawd_jihyo]

If you’re referring to the admiralty sec incident, he already said it was not a case of bully but it was altercation between two students. The student who injured the other student got suspended but the one who got injured didn’t.

[@Slime_on_a_rock]

Caning should be studied and introduced for the sec school teenagers, period.

[@SingZeon48]

I think it says a lot about a society if people don't do a certain thing, not because it is wrong, but because they are afraid of a severe punishment.

[@yusufbest4475]

​@gawd_jihyo If its altercation, then, both should be punished.. if its bullying, then the bully should be punished. Isnt that so?

[@ECOSAM-SG]

Bullying or not, school violence is always a concern. 🤔 How can we create safer, more supportive environments for students in Singapore? Beyond schools, maybe it’s time to encourage more local businesses that promote youth mental well-being, conflict resolution, and positive social spaces. 🇸🇬💡 From counseling services to community initiatives, which Singaporean businesses or organizations are making a difference? Let’s support them and build a kinder, stronger society together! 💪 What do you think? 👇

[@loveneutrality3057]

👍

[@DonPrint]

Yes

Correct

[@ALZM627]

Agree

[@AdminDefence]

True

[@sgfuture7114]

CCS looks like a primary school children reading from the script... 😊

[@byebyefiat]

Yes, cotton come from sheep

[@Changl-M]

For instance, if a child feels persistently excluded from a group, it could be a form of psychological bullying, but understanding this requires context.

[@Myeongwol31]

CCS's speech is like bot reading from AI-generated texts.

[@SnorttySnortSnort]

And you squeal like a swine. 🐖

[@ha5izmutali8]

Chan Chun Seng Generated

[@byebyefiat]

Alamak don’t pichar his lobang la

[@zubinnt]

Maybe he use ccp deepseek to generate the text ?

[@Changl-M]

Hazel Poa also inquired whether there had been any studies exploring the reasons behind bullying behavior among children and young people, aimed at identifying potential preemptive measures to address such behavior.

[@Slime_on_a_rock]

Social media trend is definitely one of the key reason, where teenagers and kids thinks it's "funny", and "attracks attention/ fame".

[@barttan9968]

There r certain type of bullies who r not afraid of the law n like to create trouble. To deal with such ppl, sometimes u need to teach them a lesson by urself

[@ganknujnal]

What can parents do if bullying persists and schools are not helping much? No parents wants to spend energy and time to post on social media for such issues unless there is no other way out.

[@alcyk28]

Teach your children to be a bully rather than to be a bully victim and taken advantages by the bullies.

[@Changl-M]

He Ting Ru, Workers’ Party MP for Sengkang GRC, pressed Minister Chan for breakdown of reported bullying incidents, specifically distinguishing between offline and online incident reported to the school.

[@deschan2246]

Parents hv no confidence in schools n minister.

[@ning385]

1:47 I felt that the schools may have under-report bully cases. I was once a secondary school student to know that the washroom are both the hotspot and blindspot of the school, and the bullies themselves know this god-damn well. Just a thought. 😢

[@roselim9840]

Why not you take up the career of being a teacher then you get to see yourself, not need to "just a thought"? Very tough job. If you don't want to do, at least don't anyhow add oil unfairly

[@ning385]

@roselim9840 how does my comment about ‘under-reporting’ made you relate it to the Teacher’s job? Curious to know. And how did you imagine it as a form of add oil?

[@jasmineliew374]

Wonder if there are rules and the appropriate punishment are clearly made known to students and parents... Caning mught be necessary for those offenders of severe cases or recalcitrant offenders. If parents don't want their children to be caned in school, good to educate and parent their children against bullying. Or else would have to bear the consequences...Otherwise no end to bullying in school...

[@TET2005]

Since day one... last time no mobile phone with camera... many incidents happened without documentations.

[@joeyasl6388]

yes since day one.. how u know.. u must have grow up in the same area as i m.. last time nobody record it down.. my brother has friends in that school, told me so many stories...surprise nothing change n now it's 2025.. will be the same even if it's 2050

[@kongthai..]

School children fighting is common especially by poor performing pupils. Normally not very serious. The disciplinary teacher normally handles this, no need to expand to politicians. Ever notice, which kind of pupils throws temper tantrums. This are the lesser capacity ones. 😊

[@kongthai..]

It's just psychology of children capacity range. 😊

[@kongthai..]

Can MoT Chan concentrate on the Advanced Canteen, and MoH/MoE pupil report to help teachers understand the pupil physiological issue. MoE must develop plans for E Library, and accessible AI class for rote learning language class. Shield pupils from LEFT WING culture. 😂❤

[@kongthai..]

That Red Shirt politicians probably behind this BLOWN UP issue. Could be. 😂❤

[@noblenoble564]

I agree that parents of today can do better and have a greater role to play given the access to social media.

[@zachariahgoh856]

"Cotton wool comes from sheep." This is an active act of cyber bullying towards Minister Chan. (This is an act of satire). As a current secondary school student in Singapore who has been bullied both physically, verbally and in cyberspace, it is good to see that the Government and more specifically MOE is talking about this issue in Parliament. However, my personal opinion is that bullying especially in secondary school is unpreventable due to the fact that most students in secondary schools try to assert their dominance over their peers in some way or another making bullying totally unpreventable simply due to human nature.

[@emptyheartss]

Deleting comments that you don’t want to show. Shame on you.

[@davidlee2816]

wow, parliment so empty. all the MPs not interested or bothered at all?

[@skillworldwide]

Children should be trained to fight rather than bully.

[@2011crane]

My English is not too good and hopefully I am wrong. The Minister claimed that the bully cases remained constant. Not decline. So, is the Minister doing something to lower the figure? The Minister claimed that Experience Consellor was assisgn to assist the bullied student. Why was the Consellor so experience?

[@rrs2023]

Families issues leads to problems children in school and in society later .

[@Sgscouser]

once again he did not answer the question. Does MOE track the outcome of the rehab?

[@byebyefiat]

Which family is rich? The aggressor or victim? The story will develop accordingly, depending on that.

[@AishwaryaKris]

Very disappointing.

[@theadventurer1602]

Not talking about the root cause issue but focusing on statistics (in %) and the school's incident response and restorative actions.

[@emptyheartss]

Educate our children to retaliate when being hit because there will not be justice if left to the authorities or adults. There is only fairness if both the bully and bullied are equally hurt.

[@davidlee3806]

No Rotan, no results.

[@jennygee89]

This is the right way to handle. 👍

[@no...4687]

Many school kids mafia actually forget that the minister in charge is the former chief of army. Just send in the RSM and all will become guai guai.

[@tanpengjoo7205]

Should ban age below 16years to access to internet that have bad influences especially tick talk apps that have unhealthy misleading informations

[@jansg405]

I agree fully

[@wtz_under]

quite extreme but you do you

[@sanipahmad1702]

Maybe schools must start practicing Corrective Work Orders for any wrong doings by students in schools.

[@MyHanck]

It is the job of government to balance the interests of parents and school and not try to offer a one size fits all solution because it is not an exact science how to handle such sensitive matters involving parents and their children in the school.

[@79chgoh]

The newest response is preventing mobile phone in school, if there are no video, it will not be a case

[@ghao13]

Statistics has its beauty to make numbers look insignificant... So how many students are there in the school? Here we have reported incidents, how about unreported incidents because we were always taught to be tolerant and let matters go?

[@sujoyroy3157]

The discussion is only about who hit and not why they hit. It takes 2 to tango. Some teachers in some schools instead of solving issues only fan more problems. The time of need may be before and not after the event. Parents also have a role to play in disciplining their kids. It requires parents and teachers to work together.

[@ShahWirana-bq9hv]

This is absolutely appalling. For more than three years I have written to the authorities including the PMO highlighting my daughter's issues with Naval Base Primary School but all we got is gaslighting and gloating from so-called "public servants". It is totally unacceptable when all the various departments, in cahoots being only defensive and condoning the manipulation and bullying by strangers upon my daughter and I....totally disgraceful, unbecoming of a educated (yet unenlightened and irresponsible) govt of a "developed" nation. My daughter and I both suffered immeasurably by the deceit and lies especially the outcome of blatant outright perjury just because they protect the adult strangers the real bullies that my daughter had confessed to the Judge and also in her numerous drawings she made. It seems nobody heeds when a minority group voices out.

[@LiHongyiIAMPM]

Since CCS took up the post as minister of education, violent crimes in MOE schools went up tremendously. Murder, assaults, bullying, fights, and sexual exploitations. He must resign. Singaporeans must not continue their support for CCS in the upcoming GE2025.

[@Low_tolerance]

Siding the school is not gonna solve anything. We all went through schools, we all know how negligent, ignorant and imperfect the school systems can be. What i hear here is only defending the education systems and before u talk about one sided, pls analyse your own speech coz what i hear is exactly one sided. The school ain't perfect, ppl aren't perfect, mistakes will be made but if no one wants to be responsible for mistakes...nothing will change. We have also seen over protective parents as well who refused to discipline their kids...similar to what he is projecting here... sounds overprotective and defensive of school...We know it's not easy to manage but many teachers failed to spot, guide, help as well. Me speaking from being unfairly treated by teachers in my youth. Years ago teacher threw my bag out of the window...and all bc her daughter in the same class hates me and said nothing when her child took a duster to smack my face white. I bet similar unfairness and bullying still exists today. This is just an example.

[@Changl-M]

Hazel Poa, MP from the Progress Singapore Party, noted that while the minister mentioned that the trend of bullying over the past five years has remained steady, she challenged the sufficiency of this timeframe, arguing that social behavior trends may take longer to assess.

[@2bystander2]

cld this be due to CCS's non-transparent & secretive process??? the way he treats opposition qns & bullying etc is not doing what he preach

[@joeyasl6388]

In the olden days, this school has bully history. Everybody knows it. I am surprised this make it to the headlines. My first reaction is "so many years never changed ah?" Local folks like us knows best... it is a culture in that school, not seperate incidents. Teachers are afraid of the students. And the students knows it.

[@HeavenlyUmbreon]

hmm some how the two incident per 1000 student not sure how true it is cus sure got non record cases

[@Changl-M]

WP MP Jamus Lim raises concerns over parental involvement in bullying cases

[@Changl-M]

Ms He also inquired about any special guidelines or approaches for handling bullying cases involving students with neurodiverse conditions or disabilities.

[@PAPPOP-h8b]

My son is from Assumption pathway school. I kept silent for harmony in Singapore even though I was physically, emotionally and mentally tortured by Muslims in Singapore. School bullies are all from the Malay Muslims Community NOT from the Indian Muslims Community. First is Noraini from Aljunied Primary School. This little girl always hit my hand for no reason. Second is Hidayat from Macpherson Secondary School. This bully slapped and kicked me many times. Third is Mazila from Macpherson Secondary School. She taught me to consume illegal drugs and to smoke in order to destress. Now my son got bullied and yet his Principal said cannot find the bully. May I enquire isn't this Principal swept this school bully issue under the carpets for harmony in Singapore? I do not wish my poor son to get bullied and thus I had withdrawn him from school. Therefore I suggested strongly to bring back canning to all school bullies 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️ whether they are male or female 🙄 Moe cannot keep giving parents the excuse that please forgive them because they came from a broken family. My son has no father 😢 therefore where is justice and humanity for me and my son?

[@byebyefiat]

Please make police report if you feel aggrieved

[@dutchmilk]

Think AI generated speech sound more human than this non human human.

[@1004AY]

Have you guys noticed a pattern here? This isn’t the first time this minister chan chun sing has taken a stance that seems to favor the perpetrator. Time and time again, in similar cases, he has pushed for leniency. This raises serious concerns. I understand that these are young offenders, but there has to be a balance. Proper education about the law is important, but so is recognizing the value of the victim’s life and the lasting impact on them. Justice should not be one-sided. Who will pay for any long term suffering for the victim? As parents, we need to ask ourselves: would we be okay if it were our loved ones suffering while the perpetrators walk away easily? It’s time to demand accountability and fairness for all, 9 months in your womb leh hello?

[@mrtienphysics666]

Kudos to the Social Media for managing this issue

[@Changl-M]

@@mrtienphysics666 BS

[@alcyk28]

Normally, the bullies come from an elitism family or broken family. They gang up to bully you and not necessarily phyiscal. Verbal bullying could be psychological control and lacking of evidence. If he,she is one bully, that is easy to handle. But if a gang bullies, join the gangster and build up your confident. Don't let the bullism drain you down academically. 😁

[@roselim9840]

Every parent love their kids, that's fair. But when they only think their kids are the only angles in the classroom, then that affects judgement. If you have more than 1 kid, you will see how they fight, how one bullies others, how at least one of your own kid play victim. How do you discipline your own children? Do you blame the victim? If that bully kick & punch the victim. Do you cane & post what the bully (your own kid) did to your other kid (also your kid) on social media? When it's our own kid bully our own kid, we treat the situation differently? Not putting parents down, but urge parents to think about it. Your kid crying victim could be the despicable mastermind you didn't know of. Your kid being bullied today could be the one bullying others tomorrow as well. If you think all. Being bullied today does not give him/her the reason to bully others. Hurted people hurt people. It's sad. It hurts. It's not easy. Having a little more emphathy could help us all a long way

[@RealEvangelizer]

This will escalate if they just prompt read the whole issue

[@mojazzz284]

Too many MPs for a small country but most have nothing significant to contribute or can't solve simple problems

[@adinda7274]

World has moved on, so do Singapore needs to. Gov wanted to take in so many foreigner children, do note these people come with their backgrounds & cultures..including bullying...cluster of maids can bully local, what made you think children? Choose you imported resources carefully, reject application of WP or PR or give longer petiod of observation. Protect Singaporean please

[@hakimsong1278]

Typewriter speech

[@markusong6022]

😂😂😂😂even adult, rehabilitation also still the character and habits 😂

[@peacenowar6920]

Where are all the rest minister .still holiday.

[@stevehon5763]

What happen if his ipad crash and he can't see the text. Maybe got standby hard copy too.

[@ericleoww]

A whole load of rubbish...educators and teachers err too and who is taking action on that?

[@Low_tolerance]

Exactly. He speaks as if they can make no mistakes and sound like blaming the victims' parents for reacting.

[@chenghonggoh4746]

CCS delivery very wooden. 😅

[@CalvinK-the_old_fogey]

Focus more on the content of the speech rather than the delivery style. Many people were very impressed by Amos Yee’s eloquent speeches and soon regret such idolatry. 😂

[@chenghonggoh4746]

@CalvinK-the_old_fogey must it be either or choice? Meaning if not CCS's wooden delivery then would be Amos Yee's eloquent idolatry. LOL.

[@CalvinK-the_old_fogey]

@@chenghonggoh4746 I don’t know if you are those who were sooo impressed with Amos Yee. That’s why I never said you. Just curious, were you?

[@alcyk28]

Dummy book for not being a bully's victim is being a bully. Why get yourself hurt before authority takes KPI action? Never submit to bully and bullies. Just as the way you avoid being scammed by knowing to scam. 😁

[@momoba123]

He needs a speech coach

[@emalejack]

Can engage pai kia 黑社會 to settle the matter……..

[@MARIEAna-sr2pt]

AI speech

[@chrisang444kolbe6]

HEY YOU GUYS !!! THE WAY CCS TALKS IS LIKE A ROBOT....DATS WHY I CALL CCS..."MR MAGOO" !!! SOUNDS +++ ACTS +++ LOOKS BLUR !!!

[@subathiru3666]

Blatant lies

[@schadenfreude6274]

Its just children playing around. Just give a simple warning will do. Get both of them to shake hands and all will be well and happy. Move along please. 🙂

[@subathiru3666]

Cannot even communicate properly and this is a must mister f is ducation

[@zen2808]

He is army train...not teacher educational train..why he is in charge of moe ..he should put into mindef instead.

[@milkacj5788]

Don’t blame him, he was still figuring out if cotton came from sheep. It’s a complex issue.

[@alcyk28]

Singapore bullism isn't as bad as in other countries, committed heious crimes, and judges in junevile court. They are too young to judge in adult court and too old knowing is a crime, and knowing their right. However, if going uncheck, Singapore may end up as other countries. Singapore is still in control of bullism. Besides, bullism is part of growing up to be bully-proof. When we grow up, we recall and laugh at it. Singapore's school has more rebellious students, wanabe heroes, and standout to talk back to the teacher rather. These are the students who are distracting the class.

[@GoldSpot-pf1yb]

Admiralty is navy. Maritime laws of royal English navy cannot be allowed on land. So they deliberately ran a ship aground on a nearby island. And said that since the ship is attached to the land maritime laws can apply on land. This is now British navy’s intelligence agencies occupied land of Asia.

[@hexroadammo9608]

Chan Can't Sing. He can't talk too