H1N1
H1N1, previously known as swine flu, is all the rave now. It's become an international problem and here on the little red dot, things are beginning to spice up with the total counts of people infected rising to 315.
With all this talk of cluster spreading, schools are extending the current school holidays by another week. I thought this is the proper thing to do. However, a significant number of parents apparently seem to think otherwise. Their main concern is their children are missing school and will end up lagging behind in school work. A totally brainless way of thinking. If the school closes, all the students start their lessons one week late. How then, can their children lag behind in school work? Besides, the decision to extend the school holidays by another week is made with the intention of protecting the students' and teachers' health. I wonder if our society's perverse obsession with results and accolades has reached another new height; now a child's education is paramount to his/her health and safety. Are we still treating our children as children, or are we treating them as pets to be groomed then shown-off at some pedigree show?
Anyways, under social pressure (I believe), some schools have decided to start online lessons such that students do not "lag behind" in their studies.
In this whole charade of starting online lessons, we have conveniently forgotten there are families out there who are too poor to even afford new school books, much less computers with internet connections. Now, this is really going to cause some students to lag behind in their studies, and so much for a "democratic society, based on justice and equality"**.
**The phrase "democratic society, based on justice and equality" is taken from Singapore's national pledge.
With all this talk of cluster spreading, schools are extending the current school holidays by another week. I thought this is the proper thing to do. However, a significant number of parents apparently seem to think otherwise. Their main concern is their children are missing school and will end up lagging behind in school work. A totally brainless way of thinking. If the school closes, all the students start their lessons one week late. How then, can their children lag behind in school work? Besides, the decision to extend the school holidays by another week is made with the intention of protecting the students' and teachers' health. I wonder if our society's perverse obsession with results and accolades has reached another new height; now a child's education is paramount to his/her health and safety. Are we still treating our children as children, or are we treating them as pets to be groomed then shown-off at some pedigree show?
Anyways, under social pressure (I believe), some schools have decided to start online lessons such that students do not "lag behind" in their studies.
In this whole charade of starting online lessons, we have conveniently forgotten there are families out there who are too poor to even afford new school books, much less computers with internet connections. Now, this is really going to cause some students to lag behind in their studies, and so much for a "democratic society, based on justice and equality"**.
**The phrase "democratic society, based on justice and equality" is taken from Singapore's national pledge.
posted by Yamosh at 2:51 PM
2 Comments:
H1N1 was a problem only in the media - it was never really any more threatening than the common flue.
And by delaying the opening of schools it meant that students had less time to learn the same amount of material - in a world where children are already committing suicide because of schoolwork pressure, this is making it worse.
As an inteligent pharmacist, you should have been aware of these things.
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