Polluted Minds...

Eleven students assaulted a classmate last week.

This happened in some school that was not disclosed for fear of bad publicity. It was on the front page of 联合早报, but not on the other papers on the same day.

Is it because less people read chinese as compared to english? As a daily reader of Today, I believe that one this news appear in their pages, there will be great concern raised among the citizens of Singapore.

What has the education system grown to become? What are the major factors that lead to a group of eleven students to assault one girl, and also rip her clothes off to capture naked photos of her?

Seven years ago, when I made a trip back to my primary school, my ex-teacher told me that she was hunting for primary four students who are suspected to be smoking.

Smoking at primary four. Seven years later, I guess students below sixteen are already having sex. This will explain why the group attempted to rip the victim's clothes and take a photo of her, as they should have been exposed to unhealthy material that are everywhere nowadays on the Internet.

If nothing is done, in seven years or less, a group of students will be raping a victim. We have to admit that censoring movies does help little in reducing sex and violence in our society. With the expanse of information on the net, anyone who is computer literate will be able to view unhealthy materials.

A flash of such materials on screen will be sufficient to make a child curious. Those computer literate children will be surfing those websites if there is no proper guidance. Besides, there is computer literacy lessons from kindergarten. Few parents bother or know about installing content blocking programs on their computers.

The situation is worse than we think. If such articles are not published or discussed among citizens, we shall hope that the government is capable of dealing with this problem themselves. Let's hope that our children will be safe from such harm.