Saturday, May 14, 2011
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what do you think will happened to you, if you have more than what you have now?
more money, more power, more privileges, more knowledge and such..... will you be a better person from what you are now or will you become worst actually?
this question came across my mind during the school mid year examination. so not an inspirational place to get a thought like this, no? the reason behind this were of course my fellow students who sat for their exam papers. like the norm, teachers have to invigilate the exam plus the students here are well-known for their cheating habits in exam. So, yeah you get it.. no easy jobs for us. Have to walk around all the time and check on them. The smartest in the class is so generous that they will purposely let their classmates peep at their answer! That is not smart but dumb! When i was back in school, i always cover my answer sheets with question paper or my hand.
as you already know, yours truly is teaching in a so called private school with national curriculum. No fancy international syllabus you all! but the different is english is fully use in science and math, plus some other different approach. They claimed it to be holistic education. What ever lah kan.
just to share the experiences during my time to invigilate the exam. i was so surprise to see that most of them are very weak in national language and even english, mind you! *sigh* And this, happened to a bunch of privileges kids. Who have everything they want and they need under their nose. Private school, home tuition, tuition centre, iPhone, internet.... name it. I can understand if they have problems with national language, but english?
now.. to say that we get more when have more money... i think it is not so true it this scenario. i compare my siblings with these rich kids (in term of studies of course), we stayed in a suburban area -- in a kampung to be exact. We came from a middle-class household, with the tele and astro as sole entertainment. Internet connection is via broadband and during the weekend only. We went to SRJK(c) in our primary school years, and SMK for our secondary years. Basically, we are trained in three different languages in school. And mind you, none of these language is spoken at home.
but gladly, we never face the major language problem. somehow we manage to cope with it by practicing the languages we learn while communicating with each others. outsiders always find it amusing when they heard we talks with each others, switching from one language to the other. Granny was so annoyed sometimes that she snap at us saying that this is not a chinese or malay house. ahh, old people...
back to the school kids.. Can you accept the fact that they don't know what is the meaning of characteristic, content (few that i remember), semangat kejiranan, budi bahasa, nilai-nilai murni, agensi kerajaan and lots more. *phewwwww* i'll be knocking my own head if i were their subject teachers for BM, Sejarah and Moral.
and all these while, i thought that if they have more than anyone out there have, they will be in better term. proven i was wrong! they may be in a better situation, but that doesn't mean they can be any better. there i said my personal opinion.
have a good saturday and sunday.
p/s: Happy Teachers Day to all teachers out there especially to my mum, sister, uncle and aunties. Not forgetting my whole lots of friends in this profession, and also to my teachers that taught me to become what i am today. Muchos gracias, profesior!
