Prison Break Season CCHY

Sometimes the higher authorities know not the best for the students as individuals. They lump them together as a herd and dictate what is best for them. What they forgot to contemplate is exactly the reason why some have forgone going to school on certain days or bailing out on school halfway through like myself today.

Different students are at different marks of academic ability as of this point in time. There are those who can methodically plough through paper after paper knowing the content like the back of their hand.

And then there are those who have not finished the syllabus of certain subjects - again, myself included.

Anyway, I called my mother to pick me up from school with a couple of my schoolmates.

I was tipped off by a senior that his junior, also in my batch, had told him this one teacher announced to the cohort during mock that those who bailed would get "a surprise" tomorrow morning. Again, this is a wrong move. Does she think we would not have friends who would relay this message to us? Once I knew of this I passed it on to my fellow convicts. One of them has already decided not to come and get shit from these people. See? Counter productive if her aim was to get students to turn up for mock exams.

The fault is but mine; I am culpable of the sorry state I have dug for myself. It is a mere 20 over days to the first paper. The essence of this fact is both good and bad - good, because there is still time, bad, because there is not *enough* time. I admit my fault in skipping school halfway through the day, I will not make excuses and will accept a just punishment or scolding if need be. (from the school - my mother was an accomplice in my getaway, she picked us up, she understands ahhaha) However, things aren't always what they seem.

The school should not have been so quick to condemn those like myself.

This is what we had for today's curriculum time:
Electives Mock (mine is EL Lit) > review > Recess > EL paper 1 > lunch > EL paper 2 > Review.
It was stated to end at 5+ PM.

Looking at statistics of my prelim 1 result, (Ironically I forgot my prelim 2 results) my physics percentile range is at 4.7% of the cohort if I remember correctly. That is to say that out of 3 classes offering Pure Physics, around 120+ students, I am only better than 4.7% of them. This is of course a worrying sign.
Referring to my English though, I stand at the 98.7 percentile range of the 5 express classes and 2 5NA class. That would mean that out of 250+ students I am 2nd. Or 3rd. The percentile is a strange bell curve. I'm sorry - my maths is horrible teehee.

Would it therefore not make sense for me to decide that I should go home at 11AM instead of 5PM to brush up on my weaker subjects instead? yes, it would. I'm not saying I am above everyone else in EL - I still have a long way to go. But as it is, time is of utmost importance to everyone, especially those like myself.

This is the time where one should prioritize, above all else, their goals, which for many of my age is achieving good grades for O levels. Things have to be sacrificed. Reputation, punishment, etc - all these are secondary. What your first priority is is what you have to sacrifice all other things for- this is the only way you will ever reach it.


In life, there are these times where you have to decide between being who they want you to be, and what you know you ought to do for yourself even when nobody agrees.

I stand firm in sticking by to my decision and while I refuse to apologize for doing what I deemed right, I admit my fault in having disobeyed the school rules - it was indeed still curriculum time.

Anyway, this is just a small issue I believe, but here's my two cent worth of thoughts why teachers shouldn't be so harsh on students skipping the mocks. There are reasons for everything anyone does; they may not seem to be what you might think it is.

And this is mine.


P.s Skipping school is highly discouraged. Please study hard so you will not have no time like me and do such things.

P.p.s on a side note, it certainly was fun reliving the good ol days of doing shit with belle - skipping classes since 'o8. Hehe. What memories we have of the shit we do in primary school.