Monday, January 22, 2007
♥ 8:44 PM
on e day i came back 2 singapore from bangkok, uncle Sam sent me into e plane. and while waiting 4 e gate 2 open, we were having a conversation about e education system in singapore. he mentioned that singapore's education is so stressful. not onli dat, but teachers tend 2 award marks veri stingily. it's like every compo and compre i barely pass. not onli me, but e average of e cohort is about c5 or c6. wad are they trying to gain by doing this? sometimes i realli dun understand. why are they being so strict and stingy wif e marks? it's like they write on ur compo,"very bad!!! did you even read this before handing it up? it doesn't even make sense!!" and it's underlined too! i mean, to me it makes sense. to me it may have some mistakes but not to e extend of veri bad and failing! by giving remarks like this realli damages my self-esteem. over a period of time it gives me e impression of no matter how hard i try my marks are forever borderline, and it's always not gd enuff. so wad's e point of even trying? when i try, my marks are borderline passes. when i dun try, my marks are still boderline passes. so wad exactly is the singapore government or the school trying to do to the students? trying to wake the them up by writing hurtful remarks in their essays? trying to knock some sense into dem by saying that they are writing completely rubbish? sometimes i realli dun get it. how can my psle score an A but after coming to sec sch it took such a dramatic change to the verge of failing? in e beginning it did knock some sense into me. cox i've nvr expected myself to ever do so badly. but after 4 yrs? each time it jux demoralises me further...
so, think about it. is it realli neccessary to take such measures?