Topic of the Day!!

Before I begin on today's topic, I would like to comment tt my chinese blog is currently facing a slow death.. haha.. I post my chinese entries here too!! That's weird. Hmm... Shall i just close my miaowupmiaowdown and just post everything here? Ah.. I shall just leave it there and post some new entries when i feel like it. =) Any other suggestions?

Nope.. it's not the beginning of my topic of the day yet. MAMA!! COME BACK!! I miss you.. i miss you.. i miss you, my harry potter and the half-blood prince!! haha.. just kidding. I plan to try my best to clear up my undone work before kinia's back with my harry potter. If I'm able to be VERY unlike me, i might be able to work ahead, then I can devote my time to Harry Potter! =)

Topic of the Day

"I feel that teachers should never say that a student is hopeless, gone case, has no brains and things like that. It is a taboo!!" (said by miaow miaow) Please comment

Just an introduction to why I thought of this so suddenly. Well, I guess it's really easy to guess. One of my various tutors just said something like that. But she was more specific. As I'm trying to set a topic, I feel that it should be a little more broad.. ya.. hahaha.. broken engish. I'm "breaking" the english like a broken englisher.. HAHAHA..

In GP, we are grouped into 4 different groups based on our summer test performance (summer test = common test). As I only got 45.5, I was in the last group (Haha.. not afraid to admit this. come suan me larz..>=]). We asked her to repeat her question, and she said something like, "Arts students can never listen. They have zero concentration, zero IQ... ..."

Before I continue, please understand that I most probably am biased in this entry.. Very biased because I'm against teachers who think in this kind of way. This is my first experience of this kind of humiliation and dehumanisation and you know what? I HATE IT! Eversince my third year in Crescent, I HATE this kind of comments from teachers. You might ask, why do i have such a strong feeling against it when i had never really experienced it. Well, though i had not experienced it, I have friends who are being treated that way as a whole class. I condemn this act of dehumanisation!

The thing that I would like to highlight is the part about zero IQ. She's not being fair. The principal, vice principals, lecturers, tutors all said that we are the top 25% of our cohort. Being able to make it into a JC meant that we have what it takes. Now, she is contradicting herself, contradicting the whole team of educators in Innova. Of course, that doesn't mean anything. My argument is that arts students are not equivalent to bad students. Some people think that arts students are not as good as science students because the cut off points in JC for science is always lower than that of arts, and that students who are in the arts faculty are those who cannot make it to science or are those who cannot study. This is not true! I doubt that she thinks in that way though, because she being in this career meant that she knows more about how these things are. I think that she looks down on the whole of innova, or most. Just because there are people getting 20 does not mean that we are stupid and have zero IQ. If you're going to judge people like that, then bless you.

Making comments like "You're hopeless", "You have zero IQ", "You are stupid", "You should be in the Poly" and things like that, is a taboo! At least that's what I think. To me, it shows that you are not professional. You're not really into this teaching career. You're teaching because it's your job, but not because you love to teach and want to teach us young people. Teachers should never make this kind of comments even if they are really frustrated. It really strengthens the barrier between teachers and students. That's bad. =( If you say things like "You all don't listen", or "you are just so lazy", I won't be so agitated because those statements are true. It's true for almost all cases of students who perform under expectations. It's true for me, especially the part about laziness. I'm just so lazy. I wonder where I'll be now if I had been hardworking. Hmm... SAJC with kah yin? Or at least NYJC. Well, but i'm just lazy. I admit that there are things which we can never get along well with. For example, I can never get along well with history, unless I study 24/7. Haha.. I'm completely opposite!

When I told my classmates about what my GP tutor had said, one of them said, "You should shoot her back and say, 'Hey! You're talking to someone who got 'A' passes for all subjects.' "

Haha.. actually, when my GP tutor made that unforgivable comment, I had thought about something like that. I was thinking, if I really have zero IQ, then how had i managed to pass my subjects? Of course, all this while, i had been saying that I'm really lucky to pass, but it's not just luck. The luck made me pass of course, but the truth is that I didn't even put in a considerable effort and that's why I had expected to fail my math, econ and GP. Which is 3 out of 4 subjects. If I have zero IQ, why do my friends in crescent think that I'm really mad to be able to pass math with A1 when i didn't really touch it, didn't do homework, always got chased by Mrs. Gek. Or pass A math with A2 when the same things happen, didn't do homework, got chased by Mrs. Gek all the time. If i have zero IQ, what had made my friends think that if i had studied as much as they had, I would get around 10 points? If i have zero IQ, why are you expecting so much from me? I'm not trying to say that i'm smart, but am trying to say that I do not have zero IQ. Hmph you arh... >=P If you don't like us, just say that you don't like us!

Haha.. didn't really say much about my topic of the day.. Just said how i feel towards my GP tutor's comments