After some time to think about it, I’m still quite mixed about the guy who stole people’s stuff. Taking things left in plain sight isn’t that much worse than rummaging in bags to find things to steal in my book, but maybe someone decided there was some line that the latter crossed to merit a police report, expulsion, and no (?) subsequent quiet re-admission as an instance of showing corporate Christ-like mercy and grace.
I don’t know the latest culprit so maybe there’re actually some mitigating circumstances that the rest of the world doesn’t know about.
You might say, hey, if he’s expelled now, then won’t he have nothing but a PSLE certificate? But isn’t it all the same for the rest who are expelled or ‘chose’ to leave school because of similar offences, different offences, or even ‘merely’ poor academic performance..
Maybe I’m just ticked off about how inconsistent the leadership’s position about how serious offences like theft or whatever is…
Maybe it’s because I just remembered how my then-CT (yet whom I still respect, for other reasons) insisted less than two years ago that a classmate had chosen to leave the school, and oh-no-he-most-certainly-wasn’t-expelled-by-the-school. As he put it, he became a NEET, which he would become again eventually for a while.
It’s difficult to factor in things like mercy (objectively) into how much punishment someone deserves for an offence.
