Well, you can't please everyone.
Being a secondary 4 student myself, I cannot help but whelp at the
rate the "gahmen" is changing the system all the time. I look back
at the old years of Singapore's infancy and ponder of life back
then: people were (slightly) more polite, everything was going at a
relaxed pace, et cetera... And now look at us in A.D. 2006. RUde,
fast paced, changing all the time...
I'm not complaining that change is bad, or the gahmen is doing a
terrible job. Well, at least they're good at changing things, but
they need to understand that they're putting a lot of pressure on
us students and our teachers. And then they blame us for not being
able to respond fast enough.
Think about it: Every year the MOE secretly pushes a few topics off
Mathematics and Sciences down the grades (of course, they
counterbalance by pushing some up the grades, but that's besides
the point). It's nice to know that we're being treated as valuable
human resources, but we, after all, are human, not computers. We
cannot calculate at the speed of light. And, being organic, we
cannot evolve at a rate faster than we change our underwear.
P.S. Did you know that americans do calculus only at "college"
(universities)? Or so I read.
