ok, we had a learning journey yesterday. We went to Singapore poly to learn more about solar technology because it'll be a part of our immediate future blah blah blah YAWN! I was the only one taking down notes among my class , 205 had lots of ppl taking down notes, they're so hardworking! Not like my class, slack , play and talk. W even viewed solar panels on their ROOFTOP UNDER THE HOT AFTERNOON SUN. I hope i grew tanner.
Our class was also way ahead of 205 when we were going to board the bus, yet we had to wait when the bus came. I thought the reason was because we weren't lined up properly and we were very noisy. As we were boarding the bus, we were right about to board when the bus driver wouldn't let them in AND JUST LET 205 CUT AHEAD and board first! (I know it's not 205 that's to blame for this civic-problem) . We waited for almost an hour our bus to come. (The driver's to blame) I'm not exaggerating about the time though. We really waited at Singapore poly for almost an hour. Later i heard the reason we had to wait it was all because there was a teacher with higher authority (bigger position) with 205. (I'M NOT BLAMING 205!) The teacher sort of abused his/her ( i'm not revealing the gender ) authority to get on the first bus although we were obviously there first.
I don't think it's very appropriate to use his/her power and make otheres wait. (Although he/she may needed to go for a meeting) But's it's still not right to across 41 people who obviously came before you. It's basic manners! 1st come 1st serve. It's this kind of civic unmindedness that makes Singapore a 1st world country with an un-first world attitude. Aren't teachers supposed to set a better example for us students? And there they are snatching buses from people? Talk about ugly. Politics is everywhere, Family politics, office politics, hospital politics and now school politics.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, you haven't heard heard it wrongly. School politics is definitely a problem faced presently in the education system. Joined with problems like elitism, bullying, racism, sexism, gangsters/delinquents, these list of problems don't seem to end, do they?
Elitism is definitely present in the education system, look at those SAP schools and compare them with neighbourhood schools, just by looking at the building's structure, you can see a significant difference. In terms of architecture, paint and most obviously, SIZE. Comapre the facilities they have, There are schools with air-conditioning in every class, some with running tracks, some with olympic sized swimming pools. Why are they all different? Enlighten me on why we don't have equal learning environments? Don't those bigshot people always say, we are all equal? Then why is our educaton so different? Why are neighbourhood schools not given the equal amount of learning oppurtunities as the SAP schools?
Wait, if there's even inequality in the school? Who am I to even sart talking about the education system? There's even elitism and inequality my school. There's this incident that i heard from a friend in badminton. Here's what happened: The badminton team (although i'm not in badminton) was training for their competitions (with the hall booked already). Then the band just barged in to practise for their SYF (without booking the hall!) and the badminton team was forced to leave the hall. And due to a lack of training, the team wasn't up to standard for competitions and lost, unfortunately. And i heard that their funds were cut after that (WTF?!). But where did they go? I'm 80% sure where they went.
NOTE TO ANY DEYI STAFF READING THIS!!! i'M KRISTOPHER FROM 207!!! I'LL ACCEPT ALL THE BLAME IF THE POSTS END UP OFFENDING ANYONE!!! DO NOT BLAME THE TEACHER WHO TOLD ME ABOUT THE AUTHORITY THING! ALL THIS IS BY ME ALONE!! DO NOT DRAG ANYONE ELSE INTO THIS!!!
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