Students and the New Straits Times
Because I'm blogging this very late at night, I'll get straight to the point: the NST seems to have been publishing a lot of letters from secondary school students lately. Why, I know not. I presume it has something to do with the government's proposal to reform our education system, or something of the sort. Whatever it is, it's these kind of things that make me proud (why, I know not).
The first letter which caught my eye was one entitled "School is about learning, not number of distinctions". It was written by someone exactly my age (unless he/she did the PTS and skipped Year 4 of primary school), who wrote about 30 people in his/her school scored straight As for the PMR. (Ha, is that any surprise considering some of the science paper's questions had answers right in the text of the question, or that the English paper was easier than the UPSR one?) K.F.A. from Kuching, I salute you.
The second letter that got me really interested was one titled "Conduct of MPs needs to improve". The writer identified himself/herself as a secondary school student, and lambasted some of our most (in)famous MPs such as Mr. Malaysia Ini Negara Islam, You Tak Suka You Keluar Dari Malaysia. (Film at 11.) Well, M.L.K. (ha, we even have almost the same initials!) from Seremban, I salute you as well. It is not every secondary school student in freaking Malaysia who can write such a coherent letter on such a "boring" issue as politics.
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johnleemk
Infernally Rambling Thoughtless Mind Head Administrator Posts: 948 IP Logged | Posted at 12:27:25 pm Jun 23, 2005
In case you don't read the crap I churn out on the main page (which hopefully will be undergoing a redesign soon, along with a lot of other changes and bugfixes...once I get my f***ing phone line), I've written a lot about why I hate school:
Of course, I go into much much deeper detail (that's why I've covered this issue in about half a dozen different articles). But why do you hate school, if you hate it at all? Please provide at least one anecdote (story) as an example. It's kind of annoying to see a one sentence reply like "the teachers suck". It's more fun to see things like: My PJK teacher makes us wear our school track bottoms first and then only allows us to wear shorts after we show the track bottoms to him. The teachers suck. |
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Vamp
Flamer Administrator Posts: 456 IP Logged | Posted at 8:01:39 am Jun 24, 2005
Think about it,its malaysia!!  |
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Nuitari
Member Posts: 224 IP Logged | Posted at 9:19:20 am Jun 24, 2005
my teacher made me change place w/o any reason i wasent even talking that time now i have 2 sit next 2 a window n its so bloody bright and u can hear form 1& 2 shouting like idiots den 2 idiont in front of me keeps on toking bout gay crap |
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johnleemk
Infernally Rambling Thoughtless Mind Head Administrator Posts: 948 IP Logged | Posted at 9:50:31 am Jun 24, 2005
Velocity: Uh, but Malaysia has redeeming qualities! Such as...for example...um...fine, it doesn't. But still...there must be some specific reason why you think school sucks.  |
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Vamp
Flamer Administrator Posts: 456 IP Logged | Posted at 1:38:39 am Jun 25, 2005
plenty of reason |
