As a F4 & 5 teacher

where are we to go from here

The students have accumulated their misconceptions about language and the world

for 9 solid years

and are facing the C.E. that demands the ability of an adult in social and language skills

They know not the danger

and continue to behave like kids

spoilt kids

not knowing they are expected to BE a mature grown up in two short years

Their teachers are just following a grammar a listening and a comprehension book

expect them to work wonders and students to automatically sponge up what's inside

But experience tells us it will be another failure

For years we have not been getting more than a dozen credits

For years our passing percentage has been around 80 something

It could be lower

this year

Are the kids not smart?

No they get good grades in the science

A lot of them function well under good teachers strict teachers

A lot of them mind their conduct grade being deducted

their parents called up

their PE lesson taken away

their lunch time taken

a detention given

though some too used to these no longer care

the majority does

then how come this big blunder in the ALevel this year?

They say they know not and feel not the pressure from their teachers

since they are as tall

make you mistake them for a full grown man

who take some responsibility and initiative for their studies

But

They simply stop acquiring the higer level skills

which are targetted towards the higher mentality

They flounder in their newly given freedom

And yearn to be treated like a kid

with lots of pressure and lots of sweets

given to help them finish their job

They wont work hard without them

they tell you

Wont work forTHEMSELVES their FUTURE, their FAMILY or HONGKONG

For Future and HK belong to the moneyed class which they are not a part of

Their family belong to the TV and afterwork pleasures if not dead tired already

Their 'self' ? our education tries very hard to get rid of and is very successful.

So

How are you going to teach them

These little angels

who appear to be very well-behaved at the beginning of your class

and some really are though you can count them with five fingers

will turn evil if you set them free and let them go when they first breach a rule

they so revere you feel disgusted

and your dream of peaceful teaching ideal students to be more ideal will be shattered

To fix these souless fouled up robotic pain in the neck for the money crazy System

all you have to do is not to

give them a soul

make them smarter

cure them of their ignorance

make them more human

give them love

But keep on keeping them what they are

more efficient donkeywholes

with a stick

and a carrot they can never reach