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Five high school students in SMP 1 Suela, East Lombok, Indonesia has been reprimanded by their school after a TikTok video that they posted online became viral throughout the country. As reported by Indonesian news portal, Tribunnews, the TikTok video was posted by the students themselves and showed them throwing their report cards on the ground and stepping on them repeatedly.
The teachers at the school regrets the action of the students and labelled it as insulting the education institution of the country. A few teachers who taught the students even expressed that they felt hurt by the incident and that the students are ungrateful to the teachers who tirelessly filled the report cards.
An English student at SMP 1 Suela, Ahmad Riadi Ahyar commented,
“They have gone too far. They have no ounce of respect for their teachers who stayed up all night in order to fill their report cards in order to help them in their education but they in turn repay us by stepping on the report cards.”
Ahmad Riadi further said that the teachers have to be extra diligent in filling in their students’ report cards because having any liquid paper correction or any type of correction due to an error in writing is not allowed whatsoever in the school system there. The English teacher admitted that he was emotional in seeing the TikTok video of his students doing the act.
The school found out about the video after friends of the five students reported the TikTok video to one of the teachers there. The incident was then discussed amongst the teachers and the school’s principal.
On 20 December, the school sent letters to all five students to come to the school the next day. The school then decided to ‘return’ the students to their parents and asked them to find another school. They were expelled immediately as the identity and pride of the school was literally ‘stepped on’ by them.
Well, let this be a lesson to all of us. Think before you do something for the sake of being viral because it might end up ‘stepping’ back on you.
What do you guys think of the incident? Do you think the students deserved to be expelled? Or is the punishment a bit too much? Share your thoughts with us in the comments!
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