Wednesday, July 9, 2008
hello, today was a pretty normal day at school.. so i guess you could call it boring again. yup! today had assembly, so umm okay la during assembly was talking about some integrity issues. i realise our principal likes to assume things and argue, making everything in line to what he sees. so today he was talking about our students if caught cheating or plagiarising anything could be expelled of school. so he gave alot of arguments and he surveyed who disagree. of course nobody dare right :D ya then this was what i thought :
Cheating or plagiarism should be considered on a case-by-case basis. For example, the student life in our times is not like the past. The teachers and principal claims that by managing our time well, we will be able to do our work. However, they have not thought about the progressing competitiveness in today's society and the students' workload, as compared to the past, are definitely increasing by alot. So there was an example of T.T Durai, who embezzled funds and gave fake invoices. They were talking about how he 'chose' his own path but actually as a comparison to our student case, it really depends. There are two types of students - one group who copy or plagiarises sometimes because they have no time, the other one is completely lazy and relies his work on others. So, even making mistakes and sacrificing integrity, I think what is important is that after the whole thing, the student must make it up by going back to learn about what he has lost to copying. well i'm sure that copying is damn prominent in our school. so after all, we won't have time. if one is too rigid and chooses to be a person of integrity all the time, he wouldn't be liked by his peers too. however, this does not mean that im agreeable to bigger stuff such as c&p projects. so actually it all depends on the case, and i think that hon is too rash by putting forward the idea of 'students who are found cheating or plagiarising can be expelled from the school'. the school, is to teach students, not to ban them from it. if we don't teach them while they're still in a good school, i think its worse if they get into lousy schools and being left as that.
yup so for whole day been quite slack! yay. gonna watch tv later and do work :)
life is great!
