Friday, February 20, 2009

Complicated relations

My story below will be quite complicated. You can try figure it out if you got the time. Even myself get confused.

I had a student by the name of Kenneth. Not to mention the real name as it involves individual privacy. He had a very complicated background which makes me think and puzzling about it whole day until I figured it out lastly.

I first found something fishy when I look into two different background information form of the same student. Kenneth had a chinese name and a chinese surname in the first form. Column for father's name is filled with a chinese name "Hii Kuong Ung". On the second form, name mentioned is just "Kenneth". Father's name is filled with an Iban name. I tried to find his birth certicate but a teacher told me that certificate is not accurate as he had change his name.

Actually this Kenneth is an Iban boy. He had a birth cert made by his birth parents. His parents can't afford to raise him after some time so they sell him to a chinese family. After the chinese family bought him, they gave him a chinese surname and a chinese name. Unluckily this chinese family is also not a stable family. The husband is always not at home and they broke off soonafter. They gave Kenneth a another Iban couple to raise him. They change his name back to his previous Iban name.

That is why he had so many parent's name on the forms as he had his birth cert changed so many times.

There is another year 4 student who had so many fathers until she can't even count how many father she had. Her mother get married and divorced so many times. All the stick and tear get her so many fathers and a few are even foreigners. We get really headache with all those informations and lastly we asked the mother to come to school and clarify everything.

Wonder why they want to make it so complicated?

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