To have the serenity to accept what cannot be changed,
the courage to change what cannot be accepted,
and the wisdom to distinguish one from another.
- R, Biebuhr, US author
Friday, January 29, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
TO MY STUDENTS
I wish to welcome back all my beloved students to the new school year. We are already well into the 4th week, and the first month is going to end soon.
Many events had happened, and many mixed emotions were shared amongst us.
Rules are set to follow, to ensure that things will be in order, and I want to give you, the PPU students, more freedom, but due to some cases, in which the guilty students were caught red-handed : such as eating in the class, eating in level 7, staying in the classroom during recess time, books and chess sets gone missing, etc. These inadequate actions had angered the disciplinary board. You are the eldest batch of students in the school and we have set certain expectations on you, and realizing this, you are all supposed to be the role models to the younger batch of students in our school. Even spot checks have been pre-warned, but yet many were caught for not obeying the rules (not having buku koko, buku peraturan and buku catatan). Even to get you to sit in your own row during the assembly is such a hassle, I wonder why can’t you follow even the simplest of rules.
All this while, I had been jotting down the information I get from assemblies, meetings, daily chores, R&D, colloquiums, from books I had read, from people I met, … knowledge and information can be found all around us, that is the reason why we want you to have a note book with you at all times, yet you are still sitting empty handed. As the old saying goes: I see and I forget, I hear and I remember, I do and I understand.
Some of you are still in the world of being paranoid (mentally-blocked), always in a mental state in which anything and everything seems not right to you : the teachers, the school rules, the classroom, the extra-curricular activities, the computer room, the canteen, the break times …. My advice to you students : Always look at things in their positive sides, try to make most out of the situation, so that your stay in Cochrane will make you a better person in future.
I have visited the Taylor’s College New Lakeside Campus, and in my heart how I wish my students can have that kind of facilities, but do you know how much the parents have to pay? > RM9000 for one semester and you are paying only RM200++ in a year. That is when reality sets in. Even we teachers are struggling to make do in a crowded 7th floor, but thanks to all my PPU teachers in 7th floor, in spite of having to leave the comfortable staff room in 6th floor, all of them remained positive. I am not saying that being a Government School we are substandard, because as teachers, we always try to give our best to our students.
As for extra curriculum activities and school program, it is stated that all of you are compulsory to participate in all three areas: uniform groups, societies and games, and it will make up 10% of your university entry qualification. It is our duty to stress this to you, to tell you how to score as high as possible so that all of you would be able to secure a spot in a university next year and not regret later on in life because of this 10%. But I noticed that those who frequently complain are always the inactive students. Whenever there is a school program, they are the ones who are absent to the program. As what I said the other day, you have to be involved to make your presence felt, or else school would mean nothing more than a place for you to study in. How active a club is depends on how active the member wants it to be, so are you still expecting teachers to push you? Plan and be involved, don’t do it because you are force to but be enjoyed. Be proactive. I won’t hesitate to support you on any good program.
Remember this :
once COCHRANEAN, always COCHRANEAN. THANKS FOR BEING PART OF US.
Many events had happened, and many mixed emotions were shared amongst us.
Rules are set to follow, to ensure that things will be in order, and I want to give you, the PPU students, more freedom, but due to some cases, in which the guilty students were caught red-handed : such as eating in the class, eating in level 7, staying in the classroom during recess time, books and chess sets gone missing, etc. These inadequate actions had angered the disciplinary board. You are the eldest batch of students in the school and we have set certain expectations on you, and realizing this, you are all supposed to be the role models to the younger batch of students in our school. Even spot checks have been pre-warned, but yet many were caught for not obeying the rules (not having buku koko, buku peraturan and buku catatan). Even to get you to sit in your own row during the assembly is such a hassle, I wonder why can’t you follow even the simplest of rules.
All this while, I had been jotting down the information I get from assemblies, meetings, daily chores, R&D, colloquiums, from books I had read, from people I met, … knowledge and information can be found all around us, that is the reason why we want you to have a note book with you at all times, yet you are still sitting empty handed. As the old saying goes: I see and I forget, I hear and I remember, I do and I understand.
Some of you are still in the world of being paranoid (mentally-blocked), always in a mental state in which anything and everything seems not right to you : the teachers, the school rules, the classroom, the extra-curricular activities, the computer room, the canteen, the break times …. My advice to you students : Always look at things in their positive sides, try to make most out of the situation, so that your stay in Cochrane will make you a better person in future.
I have visited the Taylor’s College New Lakeside Campus, and in my heart how I wish my students can have that kind of facilities, but do you know how much the parents have to pay? > RM9000 for one semester and you are paying only RM200++ in a year. That is when reality sets in. Even we teachers are struggling to make do in a crowded 7th floor, but thanks to all my PPU teachers in 7th floor, in spite of having to leave the comfortable staff room in 6th floor, all of them remained positive. I am not saying that being a Government School we are substandard, because as teachers, we always try to give our best to our students.
As for extra curriculum activities and school program, it is stated that all of you are compulsory to participate in all three areas: uniform groups, societies and games, and it will make up 10% of your university entry qualification. It is our duty to stress this to you, to tell you how to score as high as possible so that all of you would be able to secure a spot in a university next year and not regret later on in life because of this 10%. But I noticed that those who frequently complain are always the inactive students. Whenever there is a school program, they are the ones who are absent to the program. As what I said the other day, you have to be involved to make your presence felt, or else school would mean nothing more than a place for you to study in. How active a club is depends on how active the member wants it to be, so are you still expecting teachers to push you? Plan and be involved, don’t do it because you are force to but be enjoyed. Be proactive. I won’t hesitate to support you on any good program.
Remember this :
once COCHRANEAN, always COCHRANEAN. THANKS FOR BEING PART OF US.
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