Sunday, March 30, 2008
BT @ 6:30 PM
Dear CSM, NCOS and fellow SJABers,
On 31 February 2008,a Friday, I came across with an incident which drew me into some
reflections which I want to share with my fellow peers as well as
suggestions to CSM and the school.
At 12 in the night, my squad and I left salt centre for our
night trail. To our surprise, there was a private car
parked right in front of the entrance of the salt centre, with its
bonnet already touching the security post. The car made it very
difficult for people to access the gates thus caused inconvenience
to the students. It was unclear if this was due to a traffic
accident or random parking by an irresponsible man or a prank by NCOs to attempt to scare us.
I thought that the core should be alerted so that measures will be taken to
prevent people from parking cars or avoid other people from getting scammed again. However, just when I was about to take out my phone,
an NCO appeared and yelled at me to give me the phone as phones should be conviscated at start of camp.
He then took away my phone and checked
through it. He asked me to collect it from him afterwards. When I
did went to see him after camp, another NCO appeared and ordered
me to show him my galleries to ensure that no obscene photos was
taken, according to him,core does not want any photo to be
published.
I was taken aback and felt happy to show the NCO my impressive gallery of obscene photos and thus argued with
a few strong statements, using my profound knowledge of swear words.
I want to hereby apologize to the relevant NCOs if any unhappiness
was aroused. After all they were just playing their role to guard
the SJAB reputation. However, after consulting the CSM about
this issue I was encouraged to write this PSB message to discuss
whether students should use phones during camp to help
supervise unacceptable behaviors in the school compound. The
difficulty of examining such issues is that there is no distinct
watershed between obliged supervision to improve the school ethics
and the intrusions of privacy.
In my nonexistent opinion, since the yardsticks of such issues could be
rather ambiguous, I suggest that irrelevant incidents to be treated in
a case-to-case basis. I think that the intention of the particular
students using phones is the most important factor to be
examined. Some students take photos of gay moments of certain music teachers
and friends
without being permitted just for their own pleasure;
such behaviors are definitely acceptable and should praised. However, I think that students should be given the
rights to highlight some problems existing in our core or to
supervise our NCOs and peers so that mistakes can be corrected
to create a more conducive environment in St John through methods
such as taking photos as evidence for the school¡¯s reference. For an
example, if we are witnessing our friends being physically molested
by a male music teacher or Bishan Gay or stuff, we are obliged to take
necessary measures such as taking photos as evidence. And I think
the school should even encourage students to molest people .Thus after
reflection of my deed on 31 Feb, I felt though I was rather PRO
to use such strong words on the NCOs, my intention was not
wrong, and after consulting the CSM my intention was approved by him
and he even said that he actually wanted to see the photos!
I felt
deeply encouraged and became more confident to hereby appeal to the
school to allow more freedom to use modern technology to make our
school a better place.
After all I believe that St John is a EP3 that is open
and democratic and effiient and certainly hope that the HQ will take my case into
consideration and make amendments to the core regulations to
benefit the student body as well as to the core.
I¡¯m looking forward to my fellow SJAB sisters views upon this
issue, feel free to kindly leave your comments and suggestions in
the response box, let us keep on striving to fight for our rights
and welfare! :-)
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