Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad 155th Edition
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As a student, you tend to think that everyone else is a reflection of yourself. If you pay attention in class and do your work diligently, you tend to think that everyone else also does the same.
However, when you’re an educator you get a totally different view of things. You would be able to see that there is a whole spectrum of students ranging from really hardworking and intelligent ones to total CMIs who exist to waste their parents’ money.
On my part, I have done my best for my students. I have taught them all the right things; what happens after that is beyond my control. I teach my students how to properly solve simultaneous equations, analyze Newtonian mechanics problems and dissect organic chemistry. If they go off and toss everything aside after my lessons, then there’s nothing I can do.
I frankly wonder why I have not been fired after nearly two years tutoring the kid, but I guess the parents figured that without me around, the damage would have been worse.
Either way, once the O Levels are over, I’m tendering my resignation to the kid’s parents.
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Same shoes.
Right down to the resignation part. Not gonna teach anymore soon.
I have also encountered those who really wish to learn....and total CMIs who have no idea why they exist in the system and refuse to heed my words.
All the arguments for tuition are largely rubbish IMO.
The resources are at the disposal for the kids if they really want to improve their grades.
If you need tuition for self-supervision purposes, or because you feel the teacher cant reach out to you in class, then tuition still doesnt solve the fundamental problem why you cant access these resources!
After all, for those who will make it to uni (which will be half the cohort in due time), do you still expect MODEL ANSWERS, and hand-holding still all the way?
Sure, you might say: Not everyone is like you, so lucky no need tuition.
RUBBISH
I was made to be this way because I had to. Even more so now.
Recently my prof supervisor, concerned that I couldnt get help from the other teaching staff, decided to connect me with MIT peeps, in an attempt to try and help me. Clearly I am not a know-all.
I can imagine a lot of the kids would turn down the offer because "scary", "sekali I look stupid" etc etc (reasons for tuition). I was a bit intimidated with the prospect, but I said: Why not? And proceeded to rattle off a list of queries for the MIT peeps to answer.
It boils down to attitude and self-belief.
Has our system been unable to cultivate that??
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it's been non-stop around here since friday night. yes, worked thru the weekend.
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It's been a busy week...
quite ridiculous as it's suppose to be quite lull for me during this period...
global warming affecting work eh...?
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morning... wonder where's pinky bear.. This Sunday Money Mind on CNA at 9:30pm got news feature of that large containerised vessel that berthed into Singapore last Friday... Maersk one... 18,000 TEU in capacity...
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Tom Clancy died at 66...
RIP Tom...
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i no read any of his books......... surprisingly
becos everyone else was...........
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neither did i... he wrote about military stuff which i'm mostly uninterested in..
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gute morgen!
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Tom Clancy's greatest book, to me, was Executive Orders.
That book was an absolute monster (1200 pages in the edition I read), but it was a very rewarding marathon of a read.
Unfortunately, he jumped the shark with that one - every other Tom Clancy book after that based on the Jack Ryan universe absolutely sucked (except for perhaps Rainbow Six - which did not involve Jack Ryan).
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morning
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Originally posted by fudgester:
Tom Clancy's greatest book, to me, was Executive Orders.
That book was an absolute monster (1200 pages in the edition I read), but it was a very rewarding marathon of a read.
Unfortunately, he jumped the shark with that one - every other Tom Clancy book after that based on the Jack Ryan universe absolutely sucked (except for perhaps Rainbow Six - which did not involve Jack Ryan).
i remember reading this one and it took a long time to finish....coz of the volume even though the storyboard was riveting -
dang, have to settle this complex calculation b4 I can enjoy the weekend...
Problem is the reverse of the calculation does not make sense/logic... >___>
I cant reverse engineer it...
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quiet saturday, the way i like it
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prefer john grisham
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perhaps it's time to browse the book shelves and pick a book
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where's acid mei mei... got go Suntec recently or not?
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Parents and children burn Primary 6 textbooks after the end of PSLE
Seriously, why couldn't they just drop the books off at the Salvation Army or sell them off at Bras Basah?
Even selling them off to the karang guni man would have been better for the environment.
As a poor kid who went to school with mainly hand-me-down textbooks from older siblings and cousins, this article enraged me to no end.
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how on earth they go and burn textbook
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they just did
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And you know what's the worst part?
Kiss 92 fm DJ Arnold Gay organized it for his son!
Wah, cool parent, huh?
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More nonsense....
'We didn't burn textbooks; we were burning assessment books and worksheets!
It doesn't make it any less retarded that those are not textbooks. Assessment books can still be given away to younger students for their own use. And certainly you can just toss worksheets in the recycling bin or sell them to the karang guni man.
Freak, after I got my doctorate, the very first thing I did after five years of hard work and stress was to toss all my notes..... in the recycling bin. It sure felt catharthic to do so; there was no need to set up one big bonfire to do that.
Dollars to donuts say that the parents were angry at the haze a few months ago. Which kinda makes them hypocritical for contributing to air pollution this time round.
Much more disturbing is the impression given to those kids - 'Knowledge is useless, and only grades matter, so let's just burn it all after the exams!'
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i gave all my notes (fr school, uni etc) away - it felt so good to de-clutter!
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morning....
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long weekend ahead!