name: Ariel T♥
gender: Female
I'm:
Introspectively retrospect
& flawlessly flawed.
But I'm about as shallow as you are.
Monday, July 09, 2007
I'm so discontented with school right now.
Firstly, it was council.
Then, the school system.
Now, IP.
Oh by the way, I have always been disgusted at the way eldds is being treated. Don't even get me started about the puny amount of funding we receive (second thoughts: I doubt we have funding at all); the pathetic number of people who are posted to eldds; the lousy and dirty drama studio which is very much in need of $10000 renovations; the ridiculous expectations of the school when at the very start, we are neglected, ignored and looked down upon; our ever-changing status from a performing arts cca to a club&society... There's more.
If they can afford to pay $10000 for the upgraded chapel-turned-dance studio, why can't they even pay their electricity bills ($20000 / 2 = $10000, in case you couldn't count)? Or at least use some of their money wisely (even 1% would be good) to help the poor-and-lacking-badly-in-funds eldds? Like hello, you're not gonna get "sustained achievement awards" for performing arts if you continue to ignore the drama people. We may be small and insignificant, but oh, when you fail to get your "sustained achievement awards" perhaps it's all thanks to us.
Now seriously, who's the pot calling the kettle black?
Honestly, I'm just dying to transfer. I sound terrifically desperate. Guess what?
I AM DESPERATE!
Now, IP. I don't get the rationale behind us doing certain things. Neither am I sure of how things are going. It really makes me wonder if they themselves are sure of the direction they are heading to.
Determination's one thing. Foresight's another.
Language lessons are extremely boring.
Example:
Year 1 (or Sec 1 as it was then called): We learn about speeches.
Year 2: We learn about speeches.
Year 3: We learn about speeches (again!).
And it's the same with every other subject - topics making their appearance into our notes every year.
Are we seriously running out of topics that we have to "recycle" them?
If IP is meant to "open your mind" and enable you - the young and naive student, to develop a mind of your own plus gain a global outlook on issues, why do we - perhaps the not-so-naive-anymore-students, feel - ironically, and very much [not] suprisingly - suppressed and bounded by restrictions?!
We think, we suggest, we get... Rejected. Our egos are crushed. But never mind, we solder on. We complain, we are discontented. And we think again.
Why can't we have a more "broad-based" education?
I'm sure a broad-based education does not necessarily imply taking up many different kinds of subjects. Rather, we probably mean activities (Watching plays! Discussing novels! Having active discussions!). For goodness' sake, activities do not always mean learning journeys (oh, please! That's so passe).
Anyhow, I feel so darn resigned to discontentment. People can get it, I can't get out.
Oh I want leave this dreaded place so badly! If it was not for el, I don't know what else.
Firstly, it was council.
Then, the school system.
Now, IP.
Oh by the way, I have always been disgusted at the way eldds is being treated. Don't even get me started about the puny amount of funding we receive (second thoughts: I doubt we have funding at all); the pathetic number of people who are posted to eldds; the lousy and dirty drama studio which is very much in need of $10000 renovations; the ridiculous expectations of the school when at the very start, we are neglected, ignored and looked down upon; our ever-changing status from a performing arts cca to a club&society... There's more.
If they can afford to pay $10000 for the upgraded chapel-turned-dance studio, why can't they even pay their electricity bills ($20000 / 2 = $10000, in case you couldn't count)? Or at least use some of their money wisely (even 1% would be good) to help the poor-and-lacking-badly-in-funds eldds? Like hello, you're not gonna get "sustained achievement awards" for performing arts if you continue to ignore the drama people. We may be small and insignificant, but oh, when you fail to get your "sustained achievement awards" perhaps it's all thanks to us.
Now seriously, who's the pot calling the kettle black?
Honestly, I'm just dying to transfer. I sound terrifically desperate. Guess what?
I AM DESPERATE!
Now, IP. I don't get the rationale behind us doing certain things. Neither am I sure of how things are going. It really makes me wonder if they themselves are sure of the direction they are heading to.
Determination's one thing. Foresight's another.
Language lessons are extremely boring.
Example:
Year 1 (or Sec 1 as it was then called): We learn about speeches.
Year 2: We learn about speeches.
Year 3: We learn about speeches (again!).
And it's the same with every other subject - topics making their appearance into our notes every year.
Are we seriously running out of topics that we have to "recycle" them?
If IP is meant to "open your mind" and enable you - the young and naive student, to develop a mind of your own plus gain a global outlook on issues, why do we - perhaps the not-so-naive-anymore-students, feel - ironically, and very much [not] suprisingly - suppressed and bounded by restrictions?!
We think, we suggest, we get... Rejected. Our egos are crushed. But never mind, we solder on. We complain, we are discontented. And we think again.
Why can't we have a more "broad-based" education?
I'm sure a broad-based education does not necessarily imply taking up many different kinds of subjects. Rather, we probably mean activities (Watching plays! Discussing novels! Having active discussions!). For goodness' sake, activities do not always mean learning journeys (oh, please! That's so passe).
Anyhow, I feel so darn resigned to discontentment. People can get it, I can't get out.
Oh I want leave this dreaded place so badly! If it was not for el, I don't know what else.