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Guru-guru di Terengganu dipaksa untuk berlatih tepuk tangan atas arahan Pengarah JPNT kerana beliau mengatakan bahawa guru-guru tidak tepuk tangan semasa majlis bersama YAB MB Terengganu.
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27 May 2016
Malay Mail Online @themmailonline
KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 — Terengganu Education Department director Shafruddin Ali Hussin confirmed today to being the author of a now viral post on messaging application Telegram calling for “hand-clapping” exercises to be conducted in schools statewide.
However, he said the message was a “request” made to school heads and not an order, The Star Online reported this evening.
“It was a request for them to clap their hands to liven up official events and such values would be followed by other students,” Shafruddin was quoted saying in a news conference in Kuala Terengganu.
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The Star Online reported five school heads saying they had done as instructed.
“We have no choice. It is an instruction and we have to carry it out,” the news portal cited one unnamed teacher as saying, on condition of anonymity.
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Astro AWANI#AWANInews Isu arahan latihan tepuk tangan, Jabatan Pendidikan Terengganu beri penjelasan http://www.astroawani.com/berita-malaysia/isu-arahan-latihan-tepuk-tangan-jabatan-pendidikan-terengganu-beri-penjelasan-106468 …
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The StarDaily ‘hand clapping training’ for Terengganu teachers meant as a joke
KUALA TERENGGANU: A viral WhatsApp message instructing teachers in the state to carry out five minutes of hand-clapping “training” daily is apparently a joke which has been blown out of proportion.
The message, said to be sent by state Education Department director Shafruddin Ali Hussin on Tuesday, “requested” that videos of the “training sessions” be sent back to him.
The message appeared after a state-level Teachers Day speech on Tuesday, when Mentri Besar Ahmad Razif Abd Rahman commented on the lack of enthusiasm shown by teachers when they clapped their hands.
Ahmad Razif told The Star that the part of his speech on the clapping of hands at the function was meant as a joke and the matter should not be overblown.
He said he was a former teacher and the teachers who attended the event were his friends. “It was a mere joke. I never thought the issue would have taken such a twist,” he said.
Earlier on Thursday, Shafruddin declined to comment on the matter.
Howvever, he told a press conference at his office later that he was the one who sent the message to the closed group of some 81 principals and headmasters in the state.
“It was a request for them to clap their hands to liven up official events and such values would be followed by other students,” Shafuddin said reading from a statement.
He declined to answer any other questions.
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