Saturday, March 29, 2008
luky-man @ 10:29 PM
Dear Principal, teachers and fellow SJABians,
Last 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 the principal and the school.
At 10 am in the morning, my team and I left the 1st storey of SALT Centre for our
TOC. To our suprise our NCO asked as to lift the stretchers over the tables. This made it very difficult for us as the casualty was very heavy. It was unclear if this was due to sadism or random acts of masochism. I thought that we should not do this. However, just when I was about to put down my stretcher,
an NCO of the corps appeared and yelled at me to knock it down.
I then knocked 97824 and the NCO asked me to meet him after training. When I did went to see him after
class, another NCO appeared and ordered me to show him the tables to ensure that no scratches were inflicted, according to
him, the school does not want the tables to be blemished. I was
taken aback and felt frustrated by the command that I have to show
to a NCO something that is for training in an emergency where lives are at stake, thus argued with some strong
statements.
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 tables. However, after consulting myself about
this issue I was encouraged to write this blog message to discuss
whether cadets should do TOC on tables, regardless of whether
they are scratching it or not. The difficulty of
examining such issue is that there is no distinct watershed between
obliged supervision to improve the TOC skills and the tables' looks.
In my humble opinion, since the yardstick of such issue could be
rather ambiguous, I suggest that relevant incidents to be treated in
a case-to-case basis. I think that the intention of the particular
students taking the photo is the most important factor to be
examined. Some cadets do TOC for sheer slacking.
such behaviors are definitely not acceptable and should face severe
punishment. However, I think that students should be given the
rights to highlight some problems exist in our school or to
supervise our teachers and peers so that mistakes can be corrected
to create a more conducive environment in Hwa Chong through methods
such as doing 387825792 stretcher lifts per hour. For an
example, if we are witnessing our friends doing one-handed commandos, we are obliged to take
necessary measures such as taking photos as evidence of his strength and assurance that he will not scratch the tables. And I think
the school should even encourage students for doing so. Thus after
reflection of my deed last Friday, I felt though I treated unfairly, my intention was not wrong, and
after consulting the principal my intention was approved by him and he
even said that he actually wanted to see the tables! I felt deeply
encouraged and became more confident to hereby appeal to the school
to allow less usage of tables for TOC to make SJAB a better EP3.
After all I believe that HCISJAB is an EP3 that is open
and democratic and certainly hope that school will take my case into
consideration and make amendments to the school regulations to
benefit the student body as well as to the school.
I'm looking forward to my fellow SJAB brothers' views upon this
issue, feel free to kindly leave your comments and suggestions in
the tagbox!
(OH YEAH I WIN~)
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