And easiest example: Parents with kids taking O's and PSLE.
But that isn't my point here. And seven people ought to know it.
I shall stop making myself look so desperate.
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There was this striking report by Chua Mui Hoong today on the Straits Times World section pg 49.
It's common knowledge that schools always set difficult papers to spur children and parents and whatsoever cos they get shitty results and have no choice but to improve, a clever method employed by schools who understand the kiasuism of Singaporean parents.
But finally, someone highlighted the problem we should be most concerned about:
The child.
Yes you may have heard it loads of times but no one really takes it seriously cos we're a generation of inverterbrates and don't dare to speak up.
The joy of learning and the drive to continue learning. All this erased within a matter of one mid-year papers. Silent and vicious.
But that's not all. There are other points which have been overlooked by many.
Setting questions that are not relevant to the papers and questions students will actually get, just so for the sake of a mid-year massacre, deprives students a chance to practise for the actual exams itself.
How many proper mid-year exams can you have? You can't possibly just have your students take exams everyday until the real exams itself can you? By using up time and resources to prepare for a seemingly pointless exam, only to waste the students' time and efforts in the end. Yeah you can bull all day about negative motivation but reality check.
21st century students do not have the mental capabilities and strength to keep seeing failures.
What may seem good now just harms the future.
Let's just say Boy has a failure quota of 50(quite impossible yes but that's besides the point).
Deliberately wasting a slot of his failure quota, who knows whether he needs that slot in the future to do great things for the country and the people? Schools have inevitably reduced the number of limits humans can surpass.
It may seem little to anyone, but accumulation is never a good thing.
We're aren't machines that can be repaired or recharged. And there's no such thing as an indestructable machine.
On a side note, I'M GONNA GET ANOTHER GREEN TEA McFLURRY TODAY! WOOHOO!
It's common knowledge that schools always set difficult papers to spur children and parents and whatsoever cos they get shitty results and have no choice but to improve, a clever method employed by schools who understand the kiasuism of Singaporean parents.
But finally, someone highlighted the problem we should be most concerned about:
The child.
Yes you may have heard it loads of times but no one really takes it seriously cos we're a generation of inverterbrates and don't dare to speak up.
The joy of learning and the drive to continue learning. All this erased within a matter of one mid-year papers. Silent and vicious.
But that's not all. There are other points which have been overlooked by many.
Setting questions that are not relevant to the papers and questions students will actually get, just so for the sake of a mid-year massacre, deprives students a chance to practise for the actual exams itself.
How many proper mid-year exams can you have? You can't possibly just have your students take exams everyday until the real exams itself can you? By using up time and resources to prepare for a seemingly pointless exam, only to waste the students' time and efforts in the end. Yeah you can bull all day about negative motivation but reality check.
21st century students do not have the mental capabilities and strength to keep seeing failures.
What may seem good now just harms the future.
Let's just say Boy has a failure quota of 50(quite impossible yes but that's besides the point).
Deliberately wasting a slot of his failure quota, who knows whether he needs that slot in the future to do great things for the country and the people? Schools have inevitably reduced the number of limits humans can surpass.
It may seem little to anyone, but accumulation is never a good thing.
We're aren't machines that can be repaired or recharged. And there's no such thing as an indestructable machine.
On a side note, I'M GONNA GET ANOTHER GREEN TEA McFLURRY TODAY! WOOHOO!
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