School was quiet yesterday, VERY!....The main reason was many students were absent. Their friends say they were absent because they 'tak larat', it being only the second day of fasting.
I kinda like the silence at school, it's not often we get that; though it also reflects the attitude of today's kids. I asked a F5 boy why he came to school. He said if he didn't come, his father's words are very bisa and can cut through the heart and he will pulas his ears. Hence his attendance is always good. Another F1 boy who came said his pak will go gila if he doesn't come to school. So better be at school than be at home with his pak who will go gila, even though he was also stung by a bee the day before....
Most kids feel it's okay to skip school today because yesterday (Thursday) is wedge between 2 off days; Wednesday being a public holiday and Friday being a weekend. We are a country on extended leave, very often. Though we replace those days with Saturday classes, I wonder what kind of message gets to the kids. And don't get me started on how unproductive those Saturday classes are.
And parents! Parents play a super important role in shaping their kids, getting them set onto certain paths. I think many of the kids who were at school yesterday did so because their parents give them no choice. But parents today don't go 'gila' or ballistic when their children don't want to go to school. They don't want to be seen as the 'bad guy' to the kids. Some say they are helpless with their kids insistence....there are all kinds of excuses. But the silence at school yesterday? It also spoke volume of not only the attitude of our young but also the parents.
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My school attendance is bad close to exam when students from good classes take study leave. Sometimes its the tchrs that cause ss to stay away .... they don't teach; ss think they might as well stay at home and study on their own.
Our system n society just get teruker n teruker...
Agree with you on that... teachers are at fault too. "Teruker' is an apt word. LOL! I just attended my school assembly this morning and had to listen to what I consider an 'inflammatory' speech... and they keep telling us to uphold the spirit of 1Malaysia... skewed!!!
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