TELUPID, Nov 18 — Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Ulu Ansuan principal, George Odol, spent over three years staying in a school storeroom simply to have the ability to perform his duties in educating his pupils within the inside of Sabah.
The principal, who can be retiring on November 27, by no means regretted his determination to remain in such cramped quarters ever since being posted to the school in June 2020, and endured varied hardships to make sure he may give his younger pupils the perfect schooling potential.
He needed to make do with the two.74 metre (m) by 4.87m storeroom because the school was constructed with out housing for the principal, despite the fact that it was positioned deep within the inside.
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“I additionally must share the kitchen and toilet with the preschool class. It’s fairly unhappy for a principal to remain like this for over three years. But what can we academics do however sacrifice our consolation to enterprise into the inside for our pupils,” he mentioned in a viral video he uploaded on TikTok that garnered over 68,000 views thus far.
George, who’s a Kadazandusun, additionally shared that academics who had beforehand been posted to SK Ulu Ansuan, which is positioned round 230 kilometres from Kota Kinabalu, lived with the villagers of their houses initially after which later in modified lecture rooms.
The school’s Parents-Teachers Association did subsequently construct two modest homes for academics, he mentioned, including that on the finish of his tenure, he had obtained approval to construct a seven-door longhouse for academics, however prioritised the wants of different academics, and ended up residing within the storeroom himself.
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“Who else ought to we hope for to return right here and train these children in faculties within the inside if not us Kadazandusun academics ourselves? This is what we sacrifice as we serve within the inside of Sabah,” he added. — eNM
SK Ulu Ansuan principal George Odol exhibits his mattress within the 2.74m by 4.87m storeroom. — Picture through TikTok/mr.george_odol
