@sbst: got ah, I got go Suntec recently... wat abt it???
@fudge: I was saying the same thing to my collick, why they go
burn the books? they could donate it to the less needy families...
and assessment books, worksheets... all these could be re-farmed as
notes for the next year P6 students as exam reference...
That said, I am guilty of supporting that idea when I was in my
teens... But back then I was young and naive...
Back when we young we all dreamt about things like setting our
homework on fire or flipping off the siao-on teacher. The
difference between us and Arnold Gay's kids is that such things
were confined to the realm of our imaginations, not least because
we had proper parents who taught us that such behaviour is bad.
If I ever set my worksheets on fire, I can be sure that I would
kena hoot by my parents. Not just because all that burning paper
would create smoke that would irritate the neighbours. It would
also be because we grew up poor and all that paper could have been
sold to the karang guni man for a few cents to buy food.
If this Arnold Gay thinks that he is being a cool parent by
allowing this sort of nonsense, then he is sorely mistaken.
