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      <title>teacher's new duty: to protect students replied by angel7030 @ Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:29:27 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_from"&gt;Originally posted by Cowbaycowboo:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="quote_body"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;bf? *look at clock* &lt;img src=
"/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/KMess-Cartoon/sad.png" alt=
"sad.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Me house no clock, clock make me tense and stress, why must we be
tight down by time.??&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>teacher's new duty: to protect students replied by Cowbaycowboo @ Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:52:56 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;bf? *look at clock* &lt;img src=
"/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/KMess-Cartoon/sad.png" alt=
"sad.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:52:56 +0800</pubDate>
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      <title>teacher's new duty: to protect students replied by angel7030 @ Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:51:41 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Eating my breakfast and listen to cowbaycowboo&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:51:41 +0800</pubDate>
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      <title>teacher's new duty: to protect students replied by Cowbaycowboo @ Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:12:48 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;....and how about those in professions like teaching, nursing or
welfare services or for that matters any jobs that serve
people?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;how many are actually doing it out of luv, compassions and a
passion to serve? Even your MPs?? &lt;img src=
"/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/KMess-Cartoon/sad.png" alt=
"sad.png" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;..visiting enuf hospitals &amp;amp; clinics can see
liao &lt;img src="/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/KMess-Cartoon/sad.png"
alt="sad.png" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;....perhaps kudos &amp;amp; credits to a very minority fews, the
rests *rolleyes*......it's jus another job.....jus waiting to
collect their dues on pay day?? &lt;img src=
"/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/KMess-Cartoon/sad.png" alt=
"sad.png" /&gt;&lt;img src=
"/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/KMess-Cartoon/sad.png" alt=
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      <title>teacher's new duty: to protect students replied by Cowbaycowboo @ Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:00:49 +0800</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;C'mon....honestly.....how many of you wans to be HEROs?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;......this kinda of thing cannot be forced upon. It's either u
have it or dun!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Look around you in everyday's lives...in mrt, buses or public
places....even simple act like giving up your seats to those needys
is a chore...must shame the person on stomp or point a gun then
grudingly give up....let alone help save lives.....like wat that
china teacher said - "DUN BE A HYPOCRITE lar!"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;wat use is a dead hero, anyway &lt;img src=
"/images/emoticons/kde-3.5.8/KMess-Cartoon/sad.png" alt=
"sad.png" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;also cannot eat one!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teachers' new duty: To protect students&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Sat, Jun 28, 2008&lt;br /&gt;
The Straits Times&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;lt;!-- TITLE : end--&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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height="175" alt="" width="350" /&gt; &amp;lt;!-- Story With Image End
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&lt;p&gt;BEIJING - CHINA will require teachers to protect students from
danger in future, after a teacher was the first to flee when a
massive earthquake struck Sichuan last month, state media said
yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;'Protecting students' safety' has been added to new state ethics
regulations for primary and secondary school teachers, the China
Daily reported.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A draft of the revision was posted on the Education Ministry's
website on Wednesday. It is soliciting public opinions until
July30.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The draft did not specify what would happen if teachers broke
the rule.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The change appears to be in response to a frenzied debate which
began after Mr Fan Meizhong, a high school teacher in the
south-western city of Dujiangyan, near the epicentre of the May12
earthquake in China, admitted online that he had abandoned his
students.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He was teaching a literature class at the time and yelled
'Earthquake!' before fleeing the classroom, leaving his stunned
students behind.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;'In this fleeting moment of life and death, I could only
consider sacrificing myself for my daughter,' Mr Fan wrote on
tianya.cn, a social web portal, 10 days after the quake. 'I would
not care about other people, even if it were my mother, under this
type of circumstances.'&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He has been fired and stripped of his teaching qualification,
even though none of his students died in the magnitude-8 quake that
has left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The education authorities said Mr Fan, now nicknamed 'Running
Fan', should not have left his students to fend for themselves,
according to the China Daily.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;'The cowardice and selfishness that the teacher displayed when
his own and the students' lives were threatened is anything but a
quality that a qualified teacher should possess,' the newspaper
said in a commentary yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The official Xinhua news agency quoted the school's principal as
saying that Mr Fan had been dismissed not for running out of the
school but for the comments he made after that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A spokesman for the Education Ministry was quoted as saying: 'We
don't have to be noble, but we will not tolerate
shamelessness.'&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mr Fan, who said he had been fired by the school due to enormous
public pressure, has threatened to sue the authorities, arguing
that chivalry was not part of his job description.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He was quoted in yesterday's South China Morning Post as saying
that he was a distinguished teacher, and although he may not be
morally inspiring, 'neither am I shameless'.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He added that his critics were only seeking to make themselves
feel morally superior.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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