No matter where a secondary or primary school student studies in, the school will track down their blogs, remember what is inside, and punish the students for any vulgarities found inside the blog. Do students really have rights these days? Is this freedom of speech at a price? But if it is really freedom, why does it have a price?
Schools are also anxious on what students write about their school, and if anything bad written is found on a public post, the record goes straight into the O-level records. Why are schools all so anxious about such things? If a majority of students actually complain on the internet with constructive methods, doesn't that directly prove that there is a problem with the education system in a certain school? And everytime a student complains about their teacher, it is seemed as inappropriate and rude.
I have also written public some of the bad things that happened in my school, and one being here about a teacher I dislike. Given how tight such things are, what if the school found out what i wrote and sends their person to approach me?Given the way my username is my real name, it will be easy to identify me. If they do, how should I respond especially when the teacher seems to be always right while the student is always wrong?
Originally posted by Larryteo:No matter where a secondary or primary school student studies in, the school will track down their blogs, remember what is inside, and punish the students for any vulgarities found inside the blog. Do students really have rights these days? Is this freedom of speech at a price? But if it is really freedom, why does it have a price?
Schools are also anxious on what students write about their school, and if anything bad written is found on a public post, the record goes straight into the O-level records. Why are schools all so anxious about such things? If a majority of students actually complain on the internet with constructive methods, doesn't that directly prove that there is a problem with the education system in a certain school? And everytime a student complains about their teacher, it is seemed as inappropriate and rude.
I have also written public some of the bad things that happened in my school, and one being here about a teacher I dislike. Given how tight such things are, what if the school found out what i wrote and sends their person to approach me?Given the way my username is my real name, it will be easy to identify me. If they do, how should I respond especially when the teacher seems to be always right while the student is always wrong?
students are like the lowest life-forms.... just above recruits.
as a student, I was treated like dirt, like 2nd-class citizens... My schooling days are the worst years of my life.
Students are always treated as germs, people who need to be washed away. The school usually does not treat students properly, and then when the student rants about it in public, the students get persecuted.
Originally posted by Larryteo:Students are always treated as germs, people who need to be washed away. The school usually does not treat students properly, and then when the student rants about it in public, the students get persecuted.
even if they do approach u.. theres a limit to the persecution that u will receive. When u criticise, abstain from vulgaries and pejorative words. If they cane u or suspend u from school just because of a open criticism.. You might wanna ask your parents to pursue legal means
Unless you are from a top school, and everything that you like or rather, you wayang about the school.
Lets say if you write good about the school, gahmen, PAP, Singapore system etc. they will leave you alone. but if you write negative things about them, they will not hesitate to take actions.
Twitting, blogging and facebooking your views is as good as riot-ing.
I am not saying my school is bad or unjust, it's just that i feel that most schools are too sensitive over what students write on the blog, even when written in constructive ways.
Blogging about issues/problems with/in the school are usually not constructive at all, and are rarely acted upon. If you really wanted to bring the matter to the attention of those ho can help, why don't you just approach them?
No one around the students will usually help. Most of the people around me are those who think the teacher has absolute power and we should not argue. But I think it should be compromised..
If you are going to post criticism via an online platform - make yourself anonymous. Start with the username, and maybe tweak the privacy settings a little, though it would be pointless if nobody could access it..if anything is to be done, you could try approaching staff members of the school, or drop an anonymous letter citing the problem and reasons why it should be resolved.
In the event that you are confronted, and forced to delete the blog, you can copy the contents and dump it on a new blog with a different name. When questioned, you can just bua bodoh and pretend as though someone else out there shares the same grievances as you do. If the school persecutes you in an unreasonable manner, do not be afraid to pull your parents to your side, as there is nothing shameful in gaining leverage in an ugly situation.
But problems that revolve around the teacher are usually difficult to resolve without concrete proof of incompetency. There was a time where my classmates and myself had our test timings compromised - we had a full 15 minutes out of 50 cut off an important test paper, simply for being "noisy" when the old hag just kept bitching on about silence during the test period, failing to realize that her noise was the only one resonating around the 4 walls. We ended up with a petition and went straight up to the principal's office. We were not disappointed.
If there is a real problem with the teacher, your peers would have it too. However, if the teacher only picks on you, it would be a good time to reflect on what you might have done to warrant the crosshair. Should the issue persist, seek help from your parents and resolve the matter with the teacher directly.
Cheers!
Your thread topic is a question.
My answer to that question is simple, "No, we do not, never did and probably never will, have rights in whichever days you may be talking about".
TS blame yourself for using a username that is your real name.
A smart person wouldn't do that.
Well my answer is no though it is better as compared from the past, writing as a sec sch student perspective.
First, I don't get it, why do they need to go around the web searching around for our social networking sites' profile or blogs...finding things for themselves to do???
Second, I believe dunno how many times, you heard your school saying asking for suggestions when you submit, your suggestions somehow went don't know where or if it does get read, most of the time it will be ignored or give you rubbish excuse for not accepting it. Take for example, handphone rules, for schools that don't allow phones, try submitting suggestions to allow phones and your reply will be all those lame excuses, how do they even know whether will handphone work or not work when they never even try in their own school with their own students. Other school is other school, they have different students. Seriously at least consider or take some actions like a bring handphone to school trial than wait for results to flow in, sometimes the results might be quite surprising... At least respect our suggestions...
Third, some teachers just seriously think that they elder hence we must respect them so they say what you do what/they say you talk when you never you also bo bian must admit you talk than when you try to explain you never talk, they start to scold you...Seriously this is the point where teachers fail, they keep thinking that they are right in everything than never ever give us a chance to explain. How many times before you can explain yourself they will say, "I don't want to hear your nonsense/explainations"...hello next time can I accuse you that you steal $100 from me and just say what you say to us...
If you really must write something bad about the school, maybe you can try doing it in a creative way, and not directly aiming the bullet at the person designated or whom you hate. criticising them as a whole might work better for you I hope?
Be respondsible for wad u say la.
Keep blogs and accounts a secert, and neve tell those "teacher's spy" yours. Add your friends if you trusted them not to reveal it to anyone under any kind of events.
complain and complain.
compare to 20 years ago students now have a lot of rights.
The thing is schools like to spy on what students say and then persecute them should anything bad is written.
A few years back I made a thread on this very website...complaining how my school is diverting most of the financial assistance to 'niche' CCAs and withdrawing all fundings to my CCA and even terminating our instructor and barring us from making performances outside school.
I was stupid enough to use the school library to check on my thread, and ended up having my identity found out. I reckoned it was a good opportunity to discuss nicely face-to-face with the head of the school, but ended up getting literally screamed at by him in the office. On hindsight not even my sergeants in BMT could even match his feriocity at that moment.
Luckily, I had put up passwords to my blog and he couldn't enter it, cause there's worse contents inside :p
From then on I had given up all hopes on 'freedom of speech'. Whatever comments I have for governmental policies, workplace, my boss, I keep to myself. Why create so much trouble for oneself?
This is the story behind the 'nick' I use for most forums. When online, keep your identity 'anonymous'...why create trouble for yourself by giving everyone in the world a record of the contents you make online? It can jolly well stay in the google search results for the next 10 years.
...is there a way to change my username here? o_o I want to contact the mods
Originally posted by Larryteo:...is there a way to change my username here? o_o I want to contact the mods
Create a new account. Its that easy. Ask all the clones on forum, they are experts.
But even if i create a new account, my old posts and old topics will still be found with google.
Originally posted by Larryteo:But even if i create a new account, my old posts and old topics will still be found with google.
Boy, u can edit all ur post that are improper but do note that even if you change a nick, if you post anything that any govt organisation will not allow, they can just get your ISP provider to identify who you are and you can't run away from that.
I only posted about a bad teacher and that's all :D
Originally posted by Larryteo:I only posted about a bad teacher and that's all :D
U do know schs are also under the govt? :p
But I didn't write his name, and neither the name of my school :P