NOTE: This entry was saved as a draft for me to work on, but I never found the will to finish it. So I'll just put it up in this state for the record.
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THIS POST IS REGARDING THE ACJC FIGHT CLUB. (which does not exist)
Oh, I'm just making sure that whoever is googling on it finds the right stuff.
Before we dive back into this whole fiasco, I just realised that this kind of thing is what this blog was aimed to be doing when it was created - to be writing on interesting touchy topics. But it has kinda died lately, so I'm really excited to be on the keyboard again. If promos ends well, I'll be gearing up for a fresh new round of blogging.
Now, back to the main issue. I was just looking around to see what's sprouted since the news about the fight came into the digital realm and all hell broke loose. Must really admire how the internet spreads the word. I've gotten hits regarding the article from people who are from the other side of the globe. And I also discovered some psuedo open house teaser poster of some photoshopped japanese girl. Look out for that, it's worth a look.
What isn't worth looking at is SGForums. The thread on the issue is relevant at first, but after the first five pages it turns into a bitchfight with JC vs Non-JC students, Transparency vs Political Correctness or whatsoever factions the bitches have broken into. Unless you're another New Paper reporter, it's not worth a look.
And here's another worthy look. Read on.
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fight club?
http://poultryrice.blogspot.com/2006/09/fight-club.html
whoa apparantly the fierce kids at acjc have some sort of fight club which proves that the chattering classes are not above petty violence when it comes to extra-curricular activities.
acjc kid 1: i say, shall we reconvene after school at a suitable locale to do most grievous bodily harm to one another
acjc kid 2: a most excellent proposition my good man, and may i first say that by the time our little altercation is over you will most surely have cried uncle
acjc kid 3: and might i be so bold as to suggest that we invite the other members of our class to this little after school soiree
acjc kid 1: by all means go ahead. after all, what could possibly go awry unless it appears on the front page of the new paper
and here i was thinking that only the proletariat were capable of such things. perhaps we are more alike than we like to think.
well apparantly in jc you are allowed to add 2 grades to your prelim score to get your projected results. so technically C is the new A. i'm just waiting for dead to be the new alive so i can kill myself and live off the insurance money.
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Well said, whoevever-you-are-didn't-catch-your-name. However, being an ACSian myself, I feel obliged yet again to put that in it's true context. So here is my remake of that entry.
acjc kid 1: i say, shall we reconvene after school at a suitable locale to do most grievous bodily harm to one another
acjc kid 2: a most excellent proposition my good man, and may i first say that by the time our little altercation is over you will most surely have cried uncle
acjc kid 3: and might i be so bold as to suggest that we invite the other members of our class to this little after school soiree
acjc kid 1: by all means go ahead. after all, what could possibly go awry unless it appears on the front page of the new paper
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Source article: Newspaper article from The New Paper
Author: Santokh Singh
Date of article: 03 October 2006
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HERE'S my appeal to school principals and teachers: Please do not impose any gag order on your students if something negative happens in the school.
HERE'S my appeal to school principals and teachers: Please do not impose any gag order on your students if something negative happens in the school.
Why? It doesn't work.
If anything, it makes them want to talk even more - first among themselves and, if approached, to the press.
The students will get the feeling that the school has something to hide, is authoritarian and not transparent. Worse, they may think their principals and teachers are not practising what they preach.
How can teachers ask them to practise critical thinking and freedom of thought and speech, so central to their classroom learning, when they impose gag orders?
Last week, The New Paper came across this unique situation. Unique because it happened in two schools within an hour.
Students from a secondary school and a junior college told us they had been gagged.
In the secondary school, almost 300 students were struck by a mysterious illness.
In the junior college, the police were called in to break up a planned fight by students.
'We've been told by the school not to talk to the press about this,' the students from the two schools said when we approached them.
But they then went on to tell us everything we needed to know.
Why? It is a basic human instinct - to talk.
The JC students not only spoke freely with us, but they also contradicted what was told to us by the school authorities.
The New Paper ran its report last Thursday, reflecting both versions.
The principal may also be interested to know that it was a student who had alerted us to the incident.
I am convinced the student called us because he did not like being told to shut up.
'We do not wash our dirty linen in public' is an adage that is plausible only for a small family.
I say plausible rather than possible because even in the families of today, I see loyalty losing out to the urge to share interesting gossip.
What more, in a school 'family' of more than 1,000 members.
And with the advance of technology, the imposition of gag orders is almost bordering on the ludicrous.
At times, a student who witnesses or hears of the incident sends an SMS to a friend or family member almost as soon as the incident happens.
No time for the principal to tell students that he or she is going to impose a gag order.
And, as we've witnessed many times these days, these SMSes with visuals attached spread really fast.
If not SMS, then e-mail. And if not e-mail, then a blog.
A Google search with some key words would, more often than not, produce the results.
It may take a little longer but it's usually not long enough for the school authorities to remove the posting.
The details on blogs can be revealing.
Earlier this year, The New Paper warned of fight clubs forming in schools.
One principal, who vehemently denied the existence of such clubs, called me to protest.
But the next day, a posting on a blog criticised The New Paper for being late with the story. A JC student wrote that a fight club was already in existence in his school since he was in Secondary 1.
There are often two sides of a story. But, gag order or not, the truth will usually prevail in the end.
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Well, it's not mine, but I found it to be rather intersting and applicable here. So, to all you snoopy reporters out there, have a look.
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