SINGAPORE — The decision to impose parking fees on teachers at all schools stems from the Government's duty to abide by a "system of internal self-discipline", said Education Minister Ong Ye Kung on Friday (May 25).
"Charging for parking, therefore, is primarily a decision borne out of duty. But this duty does not diminish our appreciation of teachers and educators," Mr Ong wrote on Facebook.
When they give a long-winded explanation, extolling higher virtues of their decision, you know that they don't really have the intellectual capabillity to address simple problems in a simple manner. Mixing the issue of parking fees to be charged with this crap about system of internal self-discipline is a clear reflection that they don't really understand the issue.
The simple explanation is this: to be fair to other civil servants who have to pay for their parking at their working places, the govt has decided that it's only fair that teachers should also pay for the parking. And that the money collected will be channelled back to the school. Period.
The cheek of it all - to talk about the "system of internal self-discipline" - when they exercise that discipline by not having their salaries raised against private sector benchmarks, I will believe him. Or for that matter, to have the discipline to not make a big issue when announcing to the world that they are not giving themselves a raise.
"Charging for parking, therefore, is primarily a decision borne out of duty. But this duty does not diminish our appreciation of teachers and educators," Mr Ong wrote on Facebook.
When they give a long-winded explanation, extolling higher virtues of their decision, you know that they don't really have the intellectual capabillity to address simple problems in a simple manner. Mixing the issue of parking fees to be charged with this crap about system of internal self-discipline is a clear reflection that they don't really understand the issue.
The simple explanation is this: to be fair to other civil servants who have to pay for their parking at their working places, the govt has decided that it's only fair that teachers should also pay for the parking. And that the money collected will be channelled back to the school. Period.
The cheek of it all - to talk about the "system of internal self-discipline" - when they exercise that discipline by not having their salaries raised against private sector benchmarks, I will believe him. Or for that matter, to have the discipline to not make a big issue when announcing to the world that they are not giving themselves a raise.
