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Saturday, November 27, 2010 11:36 PM

Let's unRAP our School

WARNING: It has almost a thousand words in it. I’m testing your patience J

Okay, look here. We are a Selective school. We are NSG. We used to be 2^nd, until our previous principal left for Asquiem. And then we began sliding down the rankings. Fast (seriously, SMASHED by Hornsby?!). And now, when we least need it, our school has now adopted a ‘oh, screw our academics and think like abstract retards’ sort of attitude. The principal and deputy-principal have anyway.

RAP. Reflective Assessment Presentation. In other words, a load of bullsh*t. Consists of three areas aptly named: ‘Connectedness’, ‘Innovation’, and ‘Resilience’. And when you mush these altogether, they form something called ‘Hollie’. Or you could just call it CRAP. That works too. Oh right, I almost forgot: this RAP was represented in the form of a (virtual) doll made out of Microsoft Auto-Shapes. Obviously, our principal and dep-principal haven’t heard of something called ‘target marketing’.

Right. First things first. Connectedness. Definition: How people (SHOULD) use the available resources and tools around us. And, frankly, nothing that we need to shout out to the world, really. Ok, say you have this question you need to ask. What do you do? Meet one of my BEST friends: Google. Has almost every bit of information on it. What if it’s not on there? You go to a library and meet my friends: Books. No? Not there? Go ask someone who has expertise in it. Basically, research, in a nutshell. What do you do afterwards? Maybe nothing at all. Or you could casually discuss it with people you know well. You do not, YOU DO NOT go around the entire school talking about what you discovered. NO.

Next! Innovation. Ha. Of all the things to talk about, this is the worst to talk about. ‘How did you go about solving this problem?’ Throw in the word ‘creative’ in there somewhere…and you should get the idea. Really, IF you were to ever get into a problem, how would you solve it? ‘Creatively’? Surely not. A lot of us suffer from an epidemic of a disease called…PROCRASTINATION. How would you go about conquering it? A time-action-plan. I’m not going to say that’s a bad idea. It’s actually quite beneficial to a lot of us (kekeke…*raises hand*). Yeah, well. That’s one way of INNOVATIVELY solving problem. I’ll bet that at least 85% of the school procrastinates. Or maybe it’s just me…*sob*. SO, 85% should be talking about how to prevent ourselves from procrastinating. And suddenly it’s not so INNOVATIVE anymore. Ok. No. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be talking about anymore. MY POINT IS, that solutions are no longer ‘creative’ anymore, because so many of us use the same solution. So what’s the point of ‘INNOVATION’ being there in the first place?

RESILIENCE. Argh. Yes, it’s the easiest, but no, it makes us all feel bad, and then we turn into whinging people that do nothing but whinge our bad points and then we SOLUTIONISE (lol, Microsoft didn’t red-underline it. I never knew it was a word :L) them. The end. OH I FAILED A TEST. I STUDIED AND GOT FULL MARKS IN THE NEXT ONE. YAY. (According to Mr. Henshaw, that was called nerding. Believe me, nerding doesn’t exist in the Asian race. There is only studying 24/7.) OH I COULDM’T MANAGE MY TIME PROPERLY. I MADE A TIME-ACTION-PLAN AND THEN I FINISHED MY WORK 7 WEEKS BEFORE IT WAS DUE :D. Yeah, well….yeah. :/ We all say stuff like that in our RAP…don’t we? Again, like with INNOVATIONS, it there are some things which we say WAY too often to be worthy of presenting.

Finally, HOLLIE. Yes, basically, it’s just a BIG presentation of everything thrown in, and the worst of all presentations to be presented. Because you’re going to be up on the stage, both boasting and whinging about everything you’ve done this year. And everyone’s going to think that you’re really UP YOURSELF. BIG TIME.

Yep, RAP is there to make you feel really good and REALLY bad about yourself. It’s like sharing your (school) privacy with everyone, thus making it not so private anymore. So much for keeping your work scores to yourself.

Now. TO SUM UP EVERYTHING that I have written here so far, let’s use an example. Mr Henshaw: the perfect example.

YES, for ONE ENTIRE PERIOD he told us about 50 YEARS OF HIS LIFE. Ha ha. I TOTALLY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT SOME RANDOM PERSON’S LIFE. ALL 50 YEARS OF IT. Ok. He is a ‘MUSICAL’ person. When he was young, he thought of something…’creative’. Guess what THAT was? Yeah, a story about him talking to himself and his house. Lovely. The teacher wasn’t amused, NO TELLING WHY (!). Yeah, later on in his life, he became involved in music. Alright, that’s cool. Until he came up with the question: Why was the number 5 so involved in music? And so he researched and thought and researched a little more. Mr Henshaw mentioned something about Schubert changing styles and something…but all I remember was the diarrhoea of the mouth he had. “NUMBER 5 was jkshfianviusdhglaieruheriohjgo;aweijg…”. Now, I respect the creativity and questions of his. But what I don’t respect was the FACT THAT HE WASTED AN HOUR OF MY LIFE TELLING US HIS LIFE. And I can tell you, I’m still struggling to relate that to the RAP. Maybe he’s getting lonely.

Yeah, RAP…it just doesn’t work for me. I would prefer to solve my own problems rather than blurt them all out to the world. Maybe our school will get rid of them sometime soon…before I transfer schools perhaps.

So. I’ll just end it there. I’m tired. Of RAP. Of YOU (kidding. I love you all).

Did ANYONE last through all that? I’ll give you a (VIRTUAL) cookie :D

You don’t like (virtual) cookies? You think funny.

Alright then.

Laters,

Kookiemonstah.xx

P.S. I’ve been running low on ideas. So please? Post some ideas in that Chatbox…which is somewhere on the side of my page…I think. Oh I see it now. :D

Labels: NSG, rant, RAP, school