I regretted not studying harder when I came to Sec 3. My class
was deemed to be the worst class in the Express stream back then,
and even my form teacher had doubts about us. I remembered staying
back during the Meet-the-parents session to help her give out
reports books and forms, and I vividly recall she giving
disparaging remarks about many of my classmates right in front of
their parents. She even told 1 parent outright that her daughter
can either i)marry a rich man or ii)go and drop out of
school.
I felt really angry at that time at not studying harder, and being
viewed as a bunch of useless things by our teachers, even though my
form teacher was ok with me. Luckily for me, I was able to get into
a JC and later got a place in NTU, although I turn it down and went
to study Mass Comms in a private school. Looking back, I think
maybe sometimes, its not that we never study hard, but some people
are just good at other things, and studies is not it for them. As
long as they can contribute to the society and have tried their
best, then I think its ok even if you did not do well in ur
studies.
