KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: Parents have been told to stop blaming the family of the SJK(C) Davidson student stricken with the influenza A (H1N1).
This came following a plea by the father of the 11-year-old pupil, that his family be spared from the hurt, after demands by some people that the family make a public apology for spreading the virus to other students.
School parent-teacher association chairman Dr Lai Boon Hai, in hitting out at people asking for the parents to apologise for bringing their daughter to school, said the matter was beyond the family's control.
"Everybody I've talked to say it's not fair. If I were the father, I would be angry as well as I would not have intended for my daughter to be infected with the virus," he said.
Dr Lai, whose child is in Primary One, said the Chinese media should have been more careful when publishing comments from those who wanted the girl's parents to apologise.
"They need to be more sensitive when airing certain views. We all must be careful in what we choose to say to the media," he said.
Chinese dailies on Wednesday reported that several parents of the school in Jalan Hang Jebat in Kuala Lumpur had demanded that the girl's parents apologise for exposing their children to the pandemic flu.
In turn, the father known only as Chow had asked the public and other parents to stop their criticisms.
