Having gone through this CCA system myself, I feel that it's a
retarded move. Forcing students into joining some ridiculous
activities in school doesn't help them get a more holistic
education anymore than building ERPs on every road would help solve
congestion problems. While the idea of a holistic education is a
good one, the implementation is screwed up. If you want to build
character in students, give them chances to learn about
responsibility and allow for personal growth, what you really
should be doing is to encourage students to explore outside of
their already taxing academic life. I believe there's a very good
phrase for this and it's called, "Getting a life."
I don't think that such qualities can be built in a school
environment regardless of the sort of programme they implement and
people must realise that schools can't teach everything and that
getting educated is not something solely restricted to
schooling.
Compulsory CCA only wastes more of their already precious free
time and deters them from exploring outside of school life to learn
many important qualities that schools will never be able to impart.
I think this why many people say that our schools are essentially
robot factories.
agree 100%.
If what they really want to achieve is people who are both
street and book smart, time should be dedicated for students to
work towards those aspects. Having at least 6 hours cut off per
week just for some shit that students have absolutely no interest
in is taxing to the student mentally and physically, and might be
exhausting to a certain extent. We do understand the rationale
behind the CCA system, but they are doing it wrongly, with an
impractical and as you suggested, retarded method.
Seriously, I wonder when this kind of shit is going to be
abolished completely..
