Friday, July 10, 2009

DMP Cancelled

Great. When Ms Tang broke the news to me in History RA lesson yesterday, I almost cried. No I'm kidding, I didn't cry. Not even almost. But hey I was really disappointed, and perhaps really annoyed as well with the way the school handled the H1N1 thing. So here's a few measures that they've already put in place.

1) Temperature Taking
Ok, so this is not a bad thing, but it's still irritating anyway. Both for teachers and students who have to take time off lessons recording a daily 2 temperatures a day. Then again, it's not very useful. Because it's relatively easy to know whether or not oneself is ill simply by placing your hand on your forehead or checking for dizziness/head pain (which are necessary symptoms for a fever), the point of temperature taking is really not there. Who cares about the trigger temperature of 37.6 degC when he has a temperature of 35.4 degC? He's nowhere close, and after several temperature checks, he's bound to feel that the exercise is pointless, and just fake his temperature. Not because he didn't bring his thermometer, but because he's simply too lazy and fed up with the current system of doing pointless temperature checks. Come on, we're RI, we're smart people. At least give us the dignity to check whether or not we're sick by ourselves. Ok, guaranteed there are some stupid and dumb people, but the smart people make up for it and can always check to see if the dumb people are feeling okay. Overall, I still think this issue is quite controlled and okay. After all, if it takes time off lessons, then it benefits the overall student community right?

2) No Morning Assembly
Excellent for people who are coming late. Everyone gets around 5 minutes extra to get to school because the form teachers aren't that early. This should be implemented throughout the entire term since DMP is cancelled anyway.

3) Assembly cancelled
Another good implementation here. No one wants to bother to keep on falling asleep during lectures and would rather just do that in class. Either that or play Chinese Chess during PDI (particularly Chinese Caram Chess).

4) DMP Cancelled
One of the worst decisions ever possible. Cancelling DMP, as Mr Kwok has already pointed out, is a massive disappointment to both teachers and students. It does not benefit the community in anyway. Seriously, how in the world would it benefit our community? It's not just cancelling DMP, but also replacing it with normal lessons. Okay look here, MOE, what the heck do you mean by 'mass gatherings'? Is that why we cannot have DMP? Everyday normal lessons is more of a mass gathering than DMP. Not the entire student body does DMP, but the entire student body does have normal lessons, most of them eat in the canteen, use the same toilets and etc. It would be preposterous to think that whilst DMP is too dangerous to be held, normal curriculum school is not dangerous enough to be cancelled. I find that incredibly unreasonable, and simply robs us of our 3 weeks of utter happiness and learning new things out of curriculum. Basically, I better get my beatboxing back (alliteration, shows that I've been learning Lit this morning for the comparative essay), or else. Anyway, for thsoe of you who agree with me, feel free to join the Facebook Group: RI students want our DMP back!

This H1N1 is seriously all just media hype. Can't we just use this as an excuse to close school instead of closing our cool activities?
kaizersabre performed alchemy @ 6:36 AM