"Krieger (@FSKrieger22)" (Krieger22)
01/02/2014 at 09:40 • Filed to: None
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"Krieger (@FSKrieger22)" (Krieger22)
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As usual, I had to wake up around 5:30 AM to get ready for school alongside my sisters, both of which are in the same school as I am. Had a better breakfast than past years due to my father deciding that it would be cheaper to send the three of us to school by car rather than by bus as in the past.
My classmates are the same as last year's, and apparently I MUST go for Additional Mathematics in the SPM (similar to high school finals, but standardized by the government) despite my proven ineptitude at it. What. And I have no idea how I and my schoolmates must go for Chinese Literature despite already hitting the 10 subject cap for the SPM. And I have to go to cram school on the weekends, as well as managing to have the one day I have to go there on weekdays be the day with Physical Education. There aren't enough energy drinks around for that...
Well, if college/university is stressful, I suppose I'm getting plenty of practice. Such are "elite schools" here in Asia. The sooner I and this madhouse part ways the better. The end of the school year and the SPM can't come sooner... Oh and whoever says the younger generation doesn't have to face as many challenges as the old one did can get lost. Here's hoping I remember that for long enough...
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> Krieger (@FSKrieger22)
01/02/2014 at 09:45 |
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I heard the university system in China is a joke compared to your primary education. Our chinese exchange students said it was basically what people stereotype all American colleges as - a place to party on your parent's dime.
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Krieger (@FSKrieger22)
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/02/2014 at 09:52 |
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I suppose it's a joke once you're in, but the entry... not so much. To be honest I'd really love to know which countries' primary/elementary schools other than Malaysian ones thought it a really good idea to have a bunch of half-asleep seven year-olds gathered in a classroom at 7:30 in the morning and try to teach them things...
davedave1111
> Krieger (@FSKrieger22)
01/02/2014 at 10:27 |
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Heh, that takes me back. It does seem odd that we're so willing to give our kids workloads we'd be outraged by if we demanded it from an adult and paid them for it.
When I was at school they were supposed to give up to three hours of homework a night. It was supposed to be a total between subjects, but each teacher acted as if he had the whole three hours to hand out. Usually we'd get off with five or six hours worth in total, working fast, but there was one time we had six different subjects on the same day, in each of which the teacher handed out the full three hours. There literally wasn't enough time between the end of one school day and the start of the next to do all the work set, even without allowing for sleep or travel home.
You know what they say: those who can, do; those who can't, teach.