{"id":82294,"date":"2026-09-05T03:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=82294"},"modified":"2026-09-05T03:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:10:55","slug":"beatty-secondary-teacher-once-failed-nearly-every-subject-now-fights-for-every-student-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=82294","title":{"rendered":"Beatty Secondary teacher once failed nearly every subject, now fights for every student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Her unconventional solution: Invite them for a fancy meal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Most of these kids come from vulnerable families and have never tried such food. With the support of her school, Shahridah bought ingredients like steak and juicy prawns, and invited the students to cook and eat together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The idea was to entice them to come to school for at least one day every week, even if they weren\u2019t going to show up for the rest of the week, she reasoned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Every Wednesday at 2.30pm, 15 to 20 students with issues such as anger management, oppositional defiant disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism would gather.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">With such a diverse mix, these sessions are always \u201cinteresting and colourful\u201d. One boy even burst out into Chinese opera while cooking, said Shahridah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Shahridah taught them how to clean fish and chop up a whole chicken. Together, they made viral items \u2013 cloud bread and Dalgona coffee adapted to use Milo instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">And somehow, these high-risk kids who never wanted to come to school in the first place would stay till 5.30pm or 6pm, talking about their day-to-day worries and the siblings they had to care for, over the meal they prepped.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com\/women\/raja-shahridah-beatty-secondary-teacher-587991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her unconventional solution: Invite them for a fancy meal. Most of these kids come from vulnerable families and have never tried such food. With the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}