Well this week has brought big news..

Firstly our year 4's get a heavily subsidized hostel stay next year, whereas we had to fork out $1,750 per term for our stay. Or course it's easy to look at us and say we should be more gracious about these things but you know after 3 years of being every one's guinea pig, I think we're all more or less quite sick and tired of it.
True, the year 5's do get some privileges such as leadership opportunities but that brings up a WHOLE NEW topic because even then, there are the favourites who always see the opportunities while the rest of us wait for scraps from the table.
Although I am grateful that this term's fee has been reduced, I still do not think that it is fair for the VP's to stand up and chastise us for being ungracious. All we want is a little consideration when it comes to things like new policies and rules.

Which brings me to the second issue. The people taking the Olympiads this year are exempted from the exams. I would love to understand the rationale behind this amazing move on our school's part. What on God's green earth does taking olympiads have to do with skipping exams completely? The olympiads have no special rule exempting those who take it from their exams. So the school must have a REALLY good reason why the special few are about to get even more special. If they are worried that preparation for exams will affect the olympiad performance of vice versa, what is SO DIFFICULT about setting ONE MORE PAPER for all of them to take next year?? The reason why these people go for the olympiads is because the school feels they can handle it.. so what, our school is concerned about the incompetency of our students and worries that they can't handle both?
If I understand correctly, no exams means that their grade depends entirely on their CA. Ok so, no-body's CA is that bad.. it's the exams that bring us all down. So let me get this straight, the Olympiad people get the Olympiad AND a WONDERFUL CA final GRADE??

It's just like what Abu said about the medieval times.. "the rich get richer and the poor get bloody poorer!"

No, we do not need to get exempted too, we do not need a lower percentage from our exams, THEY just need to take exams NEXT YEAR. Are they afraid the teachers will go on strike by asking them to set one more paper? Or is it just administratively too troublesome to slot in a time for them to take exams next year? So it's easier to just do away with this whole thing for them and forget about us?

I guess since the school hasnt officially annouced it, they still might have some modification to do. But it's going to take a WHOLE lot for them to fix this.. A hell of a lot..

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