A view on school today
I was talking to a group of friends one day and I told them that if I am now still studying in JC or sec school, I will practically break every single school rules that I can possibly break without getting myself expelled. Probably, in my exam papers or test papers, I will do the correct answers, struck them out neatly with pencil and ruler and write down wrong answers besides them. Probably, I will tuck out my shirt, refuse to hand in every homework and score 0 for all my tests, but performing extraordinary well in my exam such that my teachers would suspect me of cheating. Probably, I will start a 'free speech' campaign in school and ask students to voice out all their dislike about the system, the principal, the teachers, the 'women with faces as long as their dresses', and probably the dreaded PE teacher who should make herself dreaded in the first place. Probably, I will start a blogging campaign and encourage students to voice their views about the school. Probably, I will encourage students not to wear their name tags, leave their hairs long, be late for school, probably I will rebuke teachers for naive and outdated viewpoints about life. Probably I will scream back at the librarian for being unfriendly.
Now, what's the point of doing all that? Well, my point is... does doing all these thing affect someone's future? Maybe it will, in the sense that it will affect how we see authority and how we see life and how we do things. Perhaps it is because I know if time can turn back 8 years or so, eventually I will still end up receiving Christ and live a new life (a hypothesis situation). But I'm particularly thinking about an article I read a few weeks ago, where teachers punished students based on the photos they saw over in Facebook, and of course an issue some time back, when students got punished for blogging something against their teachers. My standpoint is that teachers are important in a person's education and they should play the role of educator, but often than not, the line is blurred. The question lies whether teachers have a part to play in the student's virtual life and have control over what students say in their blog and post in Facebook or whatsoever. My answer for this is a clear cut no. The reason for students to blog bad things about a teacher is precisely because the students have no venue to voice out their problems with the teacher. Singaporean schools are repressive, face it or leave it, despite the education system. The word is indeed repressive, at least during my time. But from I have read, times have not changed. Does a teacher have jurisdiction over what a student says in the blog? No, no way. The fact that students are being punished for what they say in the blog is precisely why these kind of things happen in the first place. Teachers, especially those who have an ego problem, are generally unrepentant over the way they teach and interact with the students. Why not teachers think about what students write in their blog before even making the decision to confront the students? Students are generally straight forward people, if they dun like a teacher, they dun like the teacher and they make it known, by some way or another. Teachers need to realise that they are not infallible in front of students, especially the group of female teachers with 'faces as long as their dresses or pants' depending on what they wear. Thus my argument is that what students put in the web provides a good venue for teachers to know how are they (the teachers) doing among the students.
And now, what do I mean by teachers with faces as long as their dresses or pants? I met these kind of people everywhere I go. In my primary school, there is this chinese teacher who acts like this. In my sec school, there is this PE teacher who makes me go 'eeeeeeee'. This is a group of deprived people (mostly female) who derives their pleasure trying to make life difficult for students. They are psychotic and generally pull a long face, conservative in their world views and feel that they are the school rules. They probably drool to be in the role of DM and perhaps are more well fitted in working as a maintainance worker in IMH. My point to make here: these people are the ones who probably make students hate school life when they dun have to. My take is that the education world dun need such people.
In conclusion, what is the mean point of this post? Particularly, I'm not going to encourage students to go beat up their teachers. Probably they are just some rattling on my parts. But then... happy breaking school rules/
Now, what's the point of doing all that? Well, my point is... does doing all these thing affect someone's future? Maybe it will, in the sense that it will affect how we see authority and how we see life and how we do things. Perhaps it is because I know if time can turn back 8 years or so, eventually I will still end up receiving Christ and live a new life (a hypothesis situation). But I'm particularly thinking about an article I read a few weeks ago, where teachers punished students based on the photos they saw over in Facebook, and of course an issue some time back, when students got punished for blogging something against their teachers. My standpoint is that teachers are important in a person's education and they should play the role of educator, but often than not, the line is blurred. The question lies whether teachers have a part to play in the student's virtual life and have control over what students say in their blog and post in Facebook or whatsoever. My answer for this is a clear cut no. The reason for students to blog bad things about a teacher is precisely because the students have no venue to voice out their problems with the teacher. Singaporean schools are repressive, face it or leave it, despite the education system. The word is indeed repressive, at least during my time. But from I have read, times have not changed. Does a teacher have jurisdiction over what a student says in the blog? No, no way. The fact that students are being punished for what they say in the blog is precisely why these kind of things happen in the first place. Teachers, especially those who have an ego problem, are generally unrepentant over the way they teach and interact with the students. Why not teachers think about what students write in their blog before even making the decision to confront the students? Students are generally straight forward people, if they dun like a teacher, they dun like the teacher and they make it known, by some way or another. Teachers need to realise that they are not infallible in front of students, especially the group of female teachers with 'faces as long as their dresses or pants' depending on what they wear. Thus my argument is that what students put in the web provides a good venue for teachers to know how are they (the teachers) doing among the students.
And now, what do I mean by teachers with faces as long as their dresses or pants? I met these kind of people everywhere I go. In my primary school, there is this chinese teacher who acts like this. In my sec school, there is this PE teacher who makes me go 'eeeeeeee'. This is a group of deprived people (mostly female) who derives their pleasure trying to make life difficult for students. They are psychotic and generally pull a long face, conservative in their world views and feel that they are the school rules. They probably drool to be in the role of DM and perhaps are more well fitted in working as a maintainance worker in IMH. My point to make here: these people are the ones who probably make students hate school life when they dun have to. My take is that the education world dun need such people.
In conclusion, what is the mean point of this post? Particularly, I'm not going to encourage students to go beat up their teachers. Probably they are just some rattling on my parts. But then... happy breaking school rules/
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