Wednesday, 13 January 2010.

HI ALLLLLL

I am annoyed
because Ms Lau's plan for the year involves journals that we have to write about articles in the paper and we are expected-slash-required to make a vocabulary list of words we don't understand in the article.

I may have misspelled 'interfere' today on the CCA transfer form because I was in a hurry, but please, I don't think there will be any-- and certainly not five!!-- words in any newspaper article that I don't fully understand.

I'll concede an occasional one or two,

but five?

Seriously??

I think Ms Lau has a disappointingly low idea of our English standard.

Unless of course you're talking about words like 'holistic' and 'synergy' that get thrown around all the time but don't really mean anything.

Also I'm annoyed at the school system.

Order is all well and good, but I'm not a great fan of those who demand respect without earning it.
Seriously.
What sort of totalitarian regime is it when unquestioning, unwavering, complete and unconditional respect, obedience and loyalty is demanded by those in charge, even before they've shown the first sign of proving themselves worthy of it? Of course, teachers are teachers and I hardly intend to contect that point, but students are intelligent human beings too.
Right, so we aren't here to challenge the teachers. We aren't allowed to challenge the teachers.
Even if we're right?
Even if they're wrong?
Even if we have a valid point?
Even if their arguments are the sort that they themselves would give us low grades for, were we to be the ones behind them?
No, even if we have complete and worthwhile arguments, the teachers will just restate their own reasons without taking into account anything we just said, then look at us as though we're blockheads when we don't take that as an answer.
If they don't get pissed at us first for withholding the unconditional deference they feel entitled to.
(of course, not all the teachers--school wouldn't be worth getting up in the morning if that were so!-- but at least that's my impression of this term so far)

Lol now I'm wondering if I'm flaunting the guidelines by posting my opinion.
Depends.
Are we allowed to have opinions?
Are we allowed to mention them to our classmates?
What about our non-NUSH friends?
What about posting them online where the whole world can access them in the unlikely case that it might stumble across them?
What about mass-emailing them to all the students?
What about stating them to the DM's face?

Where do they draw the line?

Don't worry. I'm not planning on finding out.

=D

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