Students caught smoking is already bad enough, but gambling, and in
broad daylight?
A STOMPer, who prefers to remain anonymous, sent us the following
email about students from a secondary school located along Bedok
Reservoir Road openly placing their bets and lighting up in full
view of the school. This is his email :
Its already 7pm on Wednesday night. Instead of being home, this
group of students in full school uniform chose to gamble at the
void deck of the HDB block along Bedok Reservoir Road. This has
been happening every weekday for the past two weeks. Sometimes
there are even two groups of students gambling at the same time. At
times they are discreet about their stakes but through their
conversation on how much money they owe one another you know cash
is at stake. Other times, they display and exchange cash openly
throughout the game. I cant imagine how parents will feel when
they find out that their children are gambling away their pocket
money.
It is also a daily affair for students to gather at this void deck
immediately after school. As you can see in the other photo,
students not only light up openingly in full school uniform, they
also litter the void deck with empty drink packets, disposable
instant noodles bowls and cigarette butts. The situation was so bad
that two big dustbins were introduced but they still chose to throw
them all over the place.
This void deck is less than a 100m from the school compound and is
in full view as you walk out from the school. I have lost count of
how many times I have brought these matters to the schools
attention but nothing seems to be done.
I dont know what schools are teaching children nowadays. A few
days ago, I overheard the conversation of a group of students from
another secondary school. Every one of their sentence begins with
dialect epithets.
what on earth ? 
