LOUSY school in Singapore
I AM HELL LOTS OF ANGRY NOW!
ARGH!!!
If I were Jack Neo, I would make a movie about it too! Just follow rules.
Ever wonder why are Singaporeans are labelled as stupid in the world? It's because we have stupid people to lead us. The rule of book is god-like, everyone must follow and obey it with no exceptions. A hell of craps.
My brother got his handphone confiscated in class yesterday. Ultimately, this causes an uproar from our family towards his school, East View Secondary School.
The rule states that student can bring handphone to school but it must not be seen or heard. They will not conduct spot check to purposely confiscate handphone.
What happened? It was Chinese lesson and there is this new female teacher who doesn't wants to teach. Instead, she brings a radio with CD player and decides to play the CD. The CD is about the teaching content. Unluckily for her, the radio doesn't works so the teacher decides to have a break and not continuing with the lesson. The teacher then instruct student to do self study.
Self study? Come on! Why did my parents pay school fee in the first place? It's for teachers to teach and educate. Not self study. If self study is useful and effective, my parents would rather save the money and have my brother to "self study" at home instead. Does the teacher take us as a fool?
My brother then lend his handphone to his classmate because they want to see. Okay, you might argue that he is in the wrong. What is so wrong about him using handphone when the teacher isn't doing her job? Then his handphone got spotted by the lazy teacher and got confiscated. Obviously, what the teacher want is credits from the principal and other higher ranked staff because she's new to the school.
Want credits? Just do a good job in teaching! Not by doing stupidly redundant things to boost your fame. It's only going to backfire. Do you think you can get away with "self study" style of teaching? Come on, the Ministry of Education is not stupid too.
And so, my mother and I took turn to call the school hoping to speak with the principal. We made our call since 3pm+, principal is having a meeting till 6pm. When it's near 6pm, we call again to ensure that the principal has not left the school yet. However, the big-shot principal is still having his meeting. We called again at 6pm, the lady told us that he is still at meeting. Fine, we called back 10 minutes later at 6:10pm. The principal has left -.-
WOW? We waited more than 2 hours just to bid the principal farewell? The lady answering our call didn't even bother to ask us to leave a message.
Not giving up hope, we called the school early the next morning at 8.30am. I seriously had no idea what's so busy with him that I have to left my contact details for him to call me back. Finally, I received the call back at 10.14am. Talking about efficiency.
During the 8 minutes and 21 seconds of conversation, Mr Ee the principal obviously doesn't want to listen to our side of explanation and what we have to say. It's all about him saying "sorry we got to follow the rule, please understand that". If you really stand by the rule, please investigate on the lazy female teacher too. Of course, the principal is not interested in what we have to say and things got abit heated up.
Things was not like before. During orientation, the principal says that parents and school have to work together to excel. (Include other nonsense here.) Now, it's all about parents got to listen to the school way of nonsense. Where is the part that parents giving suggestion and feedback to school? The school is now treating the parents as "pay-money-and-shut-up" only.
Some schools in Singapore allow student to bring handphone to school and use it to communicate with teachers regarding academic stuff. I questioned the principal whether East View Secondary School teaching staff does not want to teach more after school hours. What do you think? The principal says "we are not up to the standard yet, sorry". Not up to the standard?! East View Secondary School is providing students with "not-up-to-the-standard" teachers?!
What anger me most is that he just go "sorry, good bye" and hang up the call to end the conversation. Is that very polite? If you think that as long as there's "good bye" to the ending sentence, it's okay. I disagree. Just imagine the "sorry, good bye" situation. What is this school trying to say now? That's how we teach students, if you regret anything, it's your problem.
Too bad, I regretted.
Why did I bother to make so many calls in an attempt to talk to the principal and got hanged up. The principal didn't even try to understand and listen to our side. Take me as a fool or an robot answering machine?
If I want to feedback to the school, what can I do next? E-mail? My letter might get thrased and comes the automated reply "thanks for emailing us".
Thanks for reading my experience on lousy school in Singapore.
Official discussion thread: http://talkback.stomp.com.sg/forums/showthread.php?t=14630
ARGH!!!
If I were Jack Neo, I would make a movie about it too! Just follow rules.
Ever wonder why are Singaporeans are labelled as stupid in the world? It's because we have stupid people to lead us. The rule of book is god-like, everyone must follow and obey it with no exceptions. A hell of craps.
My brother got his handphone confiscated in class yesterday. Ultimately, this causes an uproar from our family towards his school, East View Secondary School.
The rule states that student can bring handphone to school but it must not be seen or heard. They will not conduct spot check to purposely confiscate handphone.
What happened? It was Chinese lesson and there is this new female teacher who doesn't wants to teach. Instead, she brings a radio with CD player and decides to play the CD. The CD is about the teaching content. Unluckily for her, the radio doesn't works so the teacher decides to have a break and not continuing with the lesson. The teacher then instruct student to do self study.
Self study? Come on! Why did my parents pay school fee in the first place? It's for teachers to teach and educate. Not self study. If self study is useful and effective, my parents would rather save the money and have my brother to "self study" at home instead. Does the teacher take us as a fool?
My brother then lend his handphone to his classmate because they want to see. Okay, you might argue that he is in the wrong. What is so wrong about him using handphone when the teacher isn't doing her job? Then his handphone got spotted by the lazy teacher and got confiscated. Obviously, what the teacher want is credits from the principal and other higher ranked staff because she's new to the school.
Want credits? Just do a good job in teaching! Not by doing stupidly redundant things to boost your fame. It's only going to backfire. Do you think you can get away with "self study" style of teaching? Come on, the Ministry of Education is not stupid too.
And so, my mother and I took turn to call the school hoping to speak with the principal. We made our call since 3pm+, principal is having a meeting till 6pm. When it's near 6pm, we call again to ensure that the principal has not left the school yet. However, the big-shot principal is still having his meeting. We called again at 6pm, the lady told us that he is still at meeting. Fine, we called back 10 minutes later at 6:10pm. The principal has left -.-
WOW? We waited more than 2 hours just to bid the principal farewell? The lady answering our call didn't even bother to ask us to leave a message.
Not giving up hope, we called the school early the next morning at 8.30am. I seriously had no idea what's so busy with him that I have to left my contact details for him to call me back. Finally, I received the call back at 10.14am. Talking about efficiency.
During the 8 minutes and 21 seconds of conversation, Mr Ee the principal obviously doesn't want to listen to our side of explanation and what we have to say. It's all about him saying "sorry we got to follow the rule, please understand that". If you really stand by the rule, please investigate on the lazy female teacher too. Of course, the principal is not interested in what we have to say and things got abit heated up.
Things was not like before. During orientation, the principal says that parents and school have to work together to excel. (Include other nonsense here.) Now, it's all about parents got to listen to the school way of nonsense. Where is the part that parents giving suggestion and feedback to school? The school is now treating the parents as "pay-money-and-shut-up" only.
Some schools in Singapore allow student to bring handphone to school and use it to communicate with teachers regarding academic stuff. I questioned the principal whether East View Secondary School teaching staff does not want to teach more after school hours. What do you think? The principal says "we are not up to the standard yet, sorry". Not up to the standard?! East View Secondary School is providing students with "not-up-to-the-standard" teachers?!
What anger me most is that he just go "sorry, good bye" and hang up the call to end the conversation. Is that very polite? If you think that as long as there's "good bye" to the ending sentence, it's okay. I disagree. Just imagine the "sorry, good bye" situation. What is this school trying to say now? That's how we teach students, if you regret anything, it's your problem.
Too bad, I regretted.
Why did I bother to make so many calls in an attempt to talk to the principal and got hanged up. The principal didn't even try to understand and listen to our side. Take me as a fool or an robot answering machine?
If I want to feedback to the school, what can I do next? E-mail? My letter might get thrased and comes the automated reply "thanks for emailing us".
Thanks for reading my experience on lousy school in Singapore.
Official discussion thread: http://talkback.stomp.com.sg/forums/showthread.php?t=14630
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