Racial Harmony Day (RH Day) celebrations in my school were held on Wednesday (23rd June 2008). No lessons, half day and only a test for Secondary 4's after school. "What a great opportunity to skip school/come 2-4 hours late!" thought many people. Mr Koh told us that the people that came late would be getting punishment and would not be let off easily. Wednesday came and ~100 people from secondary 4 came late/ did not come at all.
The next day, Thursday, those who skipped school on Wednesday were called forth during morning assembly . Most of the people who did it bravely stepped forward without coaxing. (at least that's what I hope) They got yelled at by Mr Tan Kee Ho and Ms Mildred Yap (are the spelling and title correct?).
(In this paragraph, the information is from a friend who came late on Wednesday) Then they got detention till 2PM in the hall so they missed classes, they had to do a reflection form. On top of that, the students' School Graduation Certificate will be affected, students taught by Ms Mildred Yap would not get their exercises and tests marked by her and students in Principal's Honours List who skipped will get their names struck off!
Subsequently on Friday, Mr Koh asked those who skipped school on Wednesday to come forth during morning assembly while everyone else returned to class . Including those who had parent's letters "hiding behind Mommy and Daddy" as Mr Koh called it. (Dunno what happens after this but they return to class shortly after.)
But this is not what makes me peeved even though the punishment seems a little too extreme.
What I am really peeved about is how it seems that certain students are being favoured and given an "unfair advantage". The favouritism was VERY obvious during this RH Day thing.
Certain people had their parent's protecting them and had parents write letters of excuse for them but what was TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE was that certain people could simply pass a parent's letter and be excused without the teacher even reading it while the majority of the students had to be held back 1-2 hours before they could have the opportunity to give the letter to the teachers and even then were not excused. Favouritism? NAH, CAN'T BE.
What's more, these people had to be "dragged out" to give their letters. No courage to step up even though they did have an excuse from mom/dad or no courage to face the punishment cause they knew they were guilty of skipping for fun?
I even over heard someone trying to protect the person who skipped by asking the chairman not to call the person forward. Please do not lie to yourself, do you really think you're helping him/ her?
It really pisses me off that these people get to get away Scot-free. There really isn't any justice in this world is there?
Finally on Friday when Mr Koh called those who were "hiding behind by Mommy and Daddy", guess what? These people did not step up, some even had teachers PERSONALLY approach them to move forward they ignored the teacher AND they did not get yelled at. Interesting.
I heard later that they laughed while walking by the brave ones that came up and were sitting on the floor. Don't you feel like slapping / punching them?
Could really just go on and on about this but i think i'll stop here for today.
Here's a random picture to make things a little interesting.
For you NCC (sea) guys
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People? I think you mean person.
Man, what a cornflake we have here.
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