Complains

I've not been blogging here for a long time. I guess one of the main reasons is that I realised that students who need help in tuition might not be the most motivated to actually want to post questions here to learn more, despite it being free.

Oh well, that is something that is totally unexpected. I thought that if I had an online portal for students to connect with me when I'm not there physically to teach them, it'll be good for them. Never really expected that they won't be come online to post anything, haha! If life is so predictable, we'll are be millionaires, won't we?

I'm also not blogging because I'm not so sure about the direction of this blog. Who am I writing to? What am I writing for? What is my aim of having this blog? All these questions are not so clear to me at this moment, and hence my lack of purposeful marketing and therefore the lack of motivation to carry 'talking' to myself here.

Anyway, I wanted to come here to lament about certain students I've encountered. It really pisses me off because of their attitude towards their own future. In the next few months, they will be sitting for a major milestone exam in their life, but I seem to be more worried than them regarding the lack of preparation. It's not as if I didn't warn them what will happen, since I've basically saw hundreds of students going through the same route as them (not discounting my own personal experience too). Do they think they can handle it without so much as lifting a finger? Do they think they can even pass without putting in even meagre efforts?

WAKE UP! Get real!! The real situation outside is worse than they can imagine, especially those who take A'lvls. The A'lvl is such a brutal examination that I dare say a big majority of those sitting for it (esp in the 2nd/3rd tier JCs) are NOT going to pass well enough to enter university. Good for you if you have your own parents' sponsorship to send you overseas to study, but for those who are not, where are you going after jc? Have you ever seriously thought about it?

I've students telling me they all sorts of excuse for skipping tuition. Some student even gave me this very lame excuse of being sick every other week. Bacteria or viruses love attacking you in a clockwork manner, so precisely making you sick every fortnightly? What are they trying to tell me? I hate students are who not forthcoming. Especially LIARS. I've dealt with enough of them.

Another one is supposed to have tuition twice per week. But that had been reduced to just once per week since last month. Why? Here are the reasons - birthday (need to go party), sick and not feeling well, remedial in school, after exams already etc etc etc. Hey, if you want to have just one tuition per week, don't waste my time slot by giving me lame excuses. You know what, I just fired you - from now on, you'll have your time slot taken by someone else. The most frustrating thing is that I wanted to tell the parents about this sudden turn of events by that student, so I asked for the parent's email. But guess what, they didn't seem to want to give me and ignored my request. GOOD, save me my efforts. I'm not exactly dying to tell you about your child's impending doom in O'lvls anyway.

When had I started to become so short tempered? Ever since I realised that my time on Earth is limited and I will try my best to help those who help themselves. With irritating students who didn't want to help themselves taking up my precious time, I'll have less time to help others. It's just plain irresponsible. I'll do the necessary cut-loss to my students, as I've done in my equity investment.

Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.