Little Ironies of Singapore

Hey! Today in my LA we talked about the story about a teacher and her student which is called "The teacher".It was on how the teacher failed to realize that the student,Geok Peng, was telling the teacher about her problems at home through essays that the teacher told the class to write. The teacher not only failed to see Geok Peng's problems, she even criticized her english and gave her bad grades. In the end, Geok Peng committed suicide and the teacher even said that Geok Peng should have told her her problems. I felt sad for Geok Peng as she was a shy and timid girl and the only way she can express her problems is to write about it in her essays, but the teacher still did not understand that.