The letter of death

Following is the letter to Singapore Polytechnic for O.n,g F_o-o&k R$h^u (this is to prevent his name appearing up on search websites, read the red), also known as One Fuckedup Retarded lecturer.

To my ex-classmates: The letter will be sent to the Quality Service Manager. If no reply is given, it will be sent to Director MM office. Still no action, to Principal, and lastly MOE, till a reply is received.

By default, your names will be included in the letter (full name and admission number). If you do not wish your name to appear on the letter, please contact me immediately. Also, if you happen to fail Biomechanics, please do inform me straight away and I will remove your names.

Results will be released on 27 Feb and I will send the letter on 28 Feb 23:59:59:99:99:99:99:99.

Should the number of people who is willing to let his/her name appear on the letter be less than 15, NONE of the names will appear on the letter, and the letter will be sent anonymously through snail mail.

Read through the letter and inform me if you want any changes made.

And here, the letter:

Mrs Yap Siew Lay
Quality Service Manager
Singapore Polytechnic
500 Dover Road
Singapore 139651

28 February 2008

Dear Mrs Yap

FEED BACK FOR LECTURER DR O.N,G F_O-O&K R$H^U

We were a class of students being taught under Dr O.n,g F_o-o&k R$h^u for MM3330 Biomechanics in academic year 2007/08 semester 2 and would like to feed back on the teaching quality of Dr O.n,g F_o-o&k R$h^u which has not met our expectations.

We were disappointed as Dr O.n,g F_o-o&k R$h^u has shown irresponsibility and incompetency for providing quality education. He is also being suspected of marking test papers against wrong answer schemes.

During the first test, he made an official verbal statement which rendered that particular question to be unsolvable. Also, minutes before the second test, a query was made to clarify methods to solve a particular question. He showed unwillingness in clarifying doubts of students and gave a perfunctory explanation. This explanation caused a question in that test paper to result in having multiple possible answers.

He showed unwillingness to clarify doubts of students in many other cases too. We were brushed off with “Go read your notes.” and “You didn’t even try solving the question.” when queries were made. Students under him for MM1305 Engineering Materials 1 also faced this problem.

He was also irresponsible for his teaching as was shown during his last lesson for MM3330. He was talking about things not related to the module which resulted in him not being able to finish teaching the syllabus. He ended his lesson by requesting students to visit BlackBoard for tutorial answers and self learn the remaining of the chapter. However, when students tried to clarify doubts, the above mentioned problem was faced. Another scenario where he showed irresponsibility was when he had planned for a make-up lesson on 4 January 2008 which he did not turn up. No explanations or apologies were given during his next lesson.

As a professional educator, he is not expected to know everything. However, he should be expected to not provide students with incorrect information. On 19 November 2007, upon knowing that we have a test following his lesson, he kindly offered to, at his best, clarify doubts for that module as there were some similarities between the two modules. It is at which he provided two pieces of wrong information out of the few questions posted. Solutions to tutorial questions posted on the BlackBoard for MM3330 also contain multiple errors.

The impression he gave students was that he is more concerned in his research studies than in educating students. He would sometimes spend time during his lessons to speak about his research studies. He is also unreachable by students most of the time and the reason he gave was that he was busy with his research stuff.

Being a renowned educational institution, we believe Singapore Polytechnic is targeted to provide quality education to students. Singapore Polytechnic has done well so far and we believe would tackle this situation promptly to provide an even better education to students of Singapore Polytechnic. We would appreciate a reply for acknowledgement of this case *removed if sending by snail mail*.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully
Students of class DMA/EO/3C/208 (Its obviously wrong, again, to prevent it appearing on search engins.)

*admission numbers* *full names* (in admission number order)