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Teacher injured in attack involving student at Kuching school
A female teacher was injured after being allegedly attacked by a Form Four male student at an international school in Kuching.
Acting Sarawak police chief Saifullizan Ishak confirmed the incident, saying a penknife and a hatchet were among the weapons seized at the scene...
A female teacher was injured after being allegedly attacked by a Form Four male student at an international school in Kuching.
Acting Sarawak police chief Saifullizan Ishak confirmed the incident, saying a penknife and a hatchet were among the weapons seized at the scene.
“Further details regarding the incident will be released by the Kuching district police chief,” he said in a statement today, Bernama reported.
Earlier, a video went viral showing a student live-streaming an attack on a woman believed to be his teacher.
However, Bernama’s report did not establish whether the footage was linked to the incident disclosed by police today.
At the time of writing, Malaysiakini found that the footage remained accessible on several accounts online, with posts dating back nine hours, despite reports that some accounts had been blocked.
'Parents, students are fearful'
Separately, Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii mentioned the alleged attack in his Budget 2027 debate, noting an increasing fear among parents and students surrounding school safety.
“This is a phenomenon that we cannot simply dismiss as an isolated incident. Similar incidents have occurred several times this year and over the past few years.
“To address this issue, we must recognise that it is not merely a criminal matter, but also an issue involving education and mental health,” the DAP lawmaker told the Dewan Rakyat.
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“How can we provide mental health support not only to the victims of such tragedies but also to the perpetrators, namely the students who commit these offences?
“Therefore, I would like to ask whether the standard operating procedures (SOPs) will be revised or whether additional training will be provided to schools and teachers to deal with such incidents,” he said.
Raising concerns over copycat incidents, including through the influence of social media and video games, Yii said measures must be taken to ensure the safety of teachers, children and the school environment.
“I do not want to see our schools equipped with metal detectors at their main entrances.
That is not the image I want for our schools.
“However, if such measures become necessary, we must ensure that the safety of our children remains our top priority,” he stressed.
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This is not a discipline issue. It is a performance crime. Criminologically, a penknife plus a hatchet is not impulse, it is planning. One is concealable, the other is not. Carrying both means intent to cause serious harm. Live-streaming it turns assault into content for validation. Every share after that trains the next one. That the video was still up after 9 hours is a second failure. Psychologically, a Form Four brain is high on grievance, low on impulse control. When a boy feels shamed and powerless in class, the camera gives him fake power. Sociologically, this is where home matters. In many international school families, we see affluent neglect - high fees, high pressure, high device access, low presence. Devices are private kingdoms, edged tools are accessible, and parents are time-poor. Check the school bag, but read the home. Parenting style predicts risk. Authoritarian - high control, low warmth - teaches that aggression is authority. Permissive - low control - teaches that no means nothing, so when a teacher says no, it triggers rage. Only authoritative parenting - clear boundaries plus warmth and daily conversation - protects. MP Yii is right. This is not isolated and metal detectors are not the answer. Once you need a detector, you have admitted school is a prison. Solution: 1. MCMC + PDRM + MOE rapid takedown protocol in minutes, not hours. 2. School Threat Assessment Team in every school including international schools, anonymous reporting, and de-escalation training for teachers. 3. At home: secure tools like you secure medicine, devices charge in living room, parents must know all handles and mates. No 2am unsupervised digital street. 4. One counsellor to 300 students, with family therapy funded, not stigmatised. Safety does not start at the school gate. It starts at the dinner table.
Sack the incompetent and useless Education minister and the equally disappointing ineffective deputy Education minister.
It is so disheartening that there are so frequent incidents happening in our schools. The minister seems to be indifferent about these incidents except to say that security will be improved. This shows that the minister doesn't know the root cause of the problem. Our neighbouring countries don't have these incidents. It is not happening in Govt schools but in religious schools. Some incidents maybe insignificant but there are severe incidents too. Question is why the students are so stressed up that need violence to resolve? In our early days of education, students are afraid of teachers. Students are very disciplined then than now. There seems that something is very wrong in our education system. One bad incident is already shameful but frequent bad incidents take the cake out of it. The education minister should let other more capable people to take the job if she cannot do a proper job. The bug stops at the education minister
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