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Why are students nowadays the way they are? Always complain that school is boring, things are hard, and uninteresting?

I actually think that it is due to what they are exposed to since young… Things in the modern world is too fascinating… We have the internet, video games, movies, smart phones etc etc… Having been exposed to all these interesting stuff all along, anything less fascinating is boring… Unable to capture their attention and it takes even more effort to interest them…

Why can our parents or our generation study the way we did last time? I think maybe cos we were exposed to less of these “interesting” stuff, but on the other hand we also had our form of entertainments e.g. block catching ( I dont really see children running run the neighbourhood nowadays, have they all disappeareD?)… I’m sure school then wasnt as interesting as school nowadays.. we have so much activities for them, interactive programmes etc etc… but in relation to what they are exposed to in their daily lives, school is still boring…

Coming to my next topic on the govt’s intention to tweak the weightage of MT scores in PSLE, I seriously thing that it would be a suicide move.. Just because some students find that scoring for their MT is hard, so we have to lower the weightage so that they can do better in their PSLE? that is as good as making our goal posts bigger to make scoring easier in a soccer match… But can we win the world cup in this manner? I am no opposition to the government, but this is the first time that i think something is wrong with their thinking up there…

On top of that it is not just about whether the students can go to a good sec school after their PSLE, it is about whether they have a good enough knowledge about their MT next time when they are out in their society and also passing on the knowlede for generations… Education is not only about the first 20 years of the child’s life.. and we got to admit the standard now is already miserably low…

If we can shift the weightage now, i cant imagine what they can do in future.. Allowing students to take Language B syllabus is already a step in the slippery slope… Students cant judge for themselves, they will only try to choose what makes life easier for them…How can the policy makers be as myopic as some people who lobby for a lower weightage just to make life easier for their children? 

Marginalising our MT is as good as giving up our identity, our race, our background, our culture… I hope the people up there are visiting their optician regularly…

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