From 18/1/12

I’m cooled down. The following rambles are a result of a build up of frustration since 2009 :

I just witnessed the most ridiculous thing in school since the day I started. The commotion that happened today represented any form of intelligence left in handling the students – which is really close to none.

Beginning 2011, I assume all schools started to have their uniform unit meetings after school on Wednesdays. Fair decision, seeing it gives students more free time on Saturdays.

However, today was preposterous. Our school decided to have a pre-announced lock down on every single morning session student. And why is that? So that they can make sure that they attend their weekly meetings.

I am outraged. Coming out from class, I expected some kind of havoc happening at the gates. Our newly appointed co-curriculum head, guarding the only proper way in and out. Students flocking towards the scene, some with confused faces about what was going on.

Together with some of my friends, we were frustrated. WHAT we saw were other students flying out of the unguarded fences on the other side of the school.

WHAT we saw were people using the excuse of “going out for lunch” without their bags, which was justified by our teacher, ONLY to find their bags they threw over from the inside. They walk away, simple and cool as well as their faces not being remembered, cause they went in a large group.

WHAT we saw were students holding their magical passes, which they got SIMPLY because they had the opportunity to get out of class and to get their teacher to sign it. WHAT I saw, was myself leaving behind some who were being forced to attend something they didn’t want to simply because I was a privileged kid and my mum could get me out.

What I saw was those with transporters waiting outside forfeiting their ride home. How often does the school walk the talk? And in this case a really ugly walk. Don’t expect us to believe the announcements, which in history didn’t take place.

I was angry. I was angry that double, triple standards were taking place. Students who simply wanted to get out had to either lie or learn to jump a fence. Others who did not have the heart to do so simply get to see others leaving. All of this in the effort to get students to attend the “very beneficial” uniform unit that’s going on.

No, seriously. It is one thing that some students really do want to join, and good for them. But it is a whole other thing, that it is compulsory to take another 2 clubs and expect us to be active in all three. This isn’t something new. For years this frustration has been going on, but what makes today different is the implementation of force. Previously, more than half the school skipped it and went unspoken, mostly cause logic would tell you that the system in the first place is a failure and there is no point rectifying it.

The whole idea of a uniform unit being beneficial to ALL is ancient and should remain in museums. But the main thing that got me fuming today was the fact that the students were given the situation to adapt IN A BAD WAY. To lie, to ninja your way out of a sticky UNFEASIBLE idea of a lock down is being induced.

Triple standards. That’s the way I see it. NO way to make such lock down feasible, and no reason to do so as well.

Why am I writing this, other than to release my frustration? To make sure everyone who was involved with this really immature incident today see the imprints behind it, and to take it seriously. If we, as the students (that make the school) don’t voice out, what more ridiculous actions would the school take next time?

Don’t obey blindly without reasoning. Think, logic, does it make sense?

This might seem really little even in magnification, but it affects every single one of us students. And I say that’s big of a matter enough. So get your parents to complain, circulate this message or write your own thoughts out – cause the little things in our community matters.

-Someone longing for justification-