Week 4 Blog Prompt:
You probably have already heard that a Secondary Four student recently wrote a letter to the Education Minister, Mr Heng Swee Keat, which generated much heated debate again about Singapore's much-discussed education system.
Read the article here:
What are your views? Read the article and give your responses to the following prompts:
1. To what extent do you agree with the issues that the student has raised here? Point out some issues of agreement and possible contention
2. Examine her tone and attitude in this letter. Do you think it’s a well-crafted letter with the appropriate tone?
3. If you should write a letter to Minister of Education, what are some issues you would raise? Remember- your intention is to make the system better for society’s betterment via CONSTRUCTIVE ideas.
Yes I totally agree with Janelle concerning the matter that students nowadays are getting too rowdy and they do not get the freedom to express their views on a certain issues. Although its education system is top class but the teachers restrain us from expressing our thoughts even in tests on speeches we do not have the right to choose the topic that we are doing we have only a limited range to choose from.Teachers merely mark exam scripts with only reference to the answer script even though the answer may deserve some marks they just put a big fat cross in our faces.In terms of the letter i think that the level of politeness is indeed of an acceptable degree as it is an informal letter.She had been polite at the same time straight to the point spending no time on babbling nonsense.If I were to write a letter i would raise some of the problems more commonly faced by students example due to the stress inflicted on the students by their parents and peer pressure to do well or else they would be shunned and ignored by their peers. I would stress that the school were to have some counselling for cases like stated above.
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