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