You think I like to?!

I spoke to the three of you just last week. Exactly a week ago, we talked about your lack of self-discipline to do your own work. I spent a whole 3 periods of my time sitting there with you trying to understand you, trying to listen to you and explain to you the consequences of your actions so that you knew better what to do exactly. And you promised that you would bring all your materials from that day onwards and that you do not wish to drop the subject. You promised to work harder, to put in effort and to try to complete your work so that it can be submitted.

So what happened today? You teacher came running to me to tell me that you did not bring your materials again and that you were all just sitting there wasting away your time chit-chatting.

And what about you? You were suspended for 2 weeks and when you come back, you simply had no common sense to pack you bag and to check your time-table for the lessons for today. Forgetting to bring your materials is NOT a reason. Not even an excuse.

When I walked into the workshop just now, I expected to see you doing some work. But no, you chose to sit with your legs propped up on the table and to chit-chat. I saw you congregating there, laughing away and distracting the friends around you. What is this all about? I don't call this effort. Not at all.

And you, how dare you argue with me. You were suspended from school becuase you cannot come to school on time. And you have the cheek to tell me you were in a hurry so you forgot to bring your materials for this lesson. What kind of lousy excuse is that? As far as I'm concerned, you have just shown me that you are still not quite ready for school and that you have not learnt your lesson on how to come to school on time. Do you need a bigger alarm clock for your thicker head? Must you trouble your mother to wake you up as if you're still in primary school? You're 16 years old for goodness sake. GROW UP!

I'm truly disappointed. Let me be honest. I don't see the point in trying to talk sense to you guys anymore because you all simple make no sense to me. Your behaviour is incoherent to your thinking and your actions are incoherent to your thoughts. You don't seem to realise that results require effort. That dreams don't just come true for those who sit and dream but for those who dare to dream and to act on their dream. You're rubbish. You simply refuse to see the point even when so many adults tell you what you ought to do. So many of us have tried to give you a chance, to pep-talk you and to help you but you just don't care. So let me ask you, if you don't care, then why should we?! We can choose not to care and to just carry out school procedures with you and make like difficult for you and your parents.

Maybe that's exactly what we should do. No more second or third chances. No more being nice and talking nice. No more treating you like a human. From now on, we will try to treat you like commodities that your parents have deposited in this school from 7:20am to 2:20pm everyday and we will provide what MOE wants us to provide for you. We will not waste anymore time nor effort trying to go beyond our call of duty. Procedures. We'll do just that. We'll do only that.

You think I like to?!

Why do you think people even bother about you? All your teachers here have got our educational qualifications. We've got our diplomas and our degrees. We don't need you to make our life any richer. We don't depend on YOUR passes for us to gain anymore that what our certifications can get for us. We've been there and done that. We're safe. We can quit teaching today and find a job the next day. We're self- sufficient.

What about you? What do you have? A PSLE? Hah! Try using that to land yourself in a job that doesn't require you to sacrifice time and energy beyond what it can pay you. Try it! And once you have it, imagine doing it FOR THE REST OF YOUR miserable LIFE and see if you enjoy that thought.

Oh wait, knowing some of you, you'll probably tell me its ok what. It is? Then be my guest! Why sit here and be scolded and hounded, nagged and chased for your assignments? Might as well go work now! Get off that ass then!

You people sap my energy. You make me wonder if you deserve my attention. You make me wonder if I will ever make sense to you. You make me wonder if today's youths should be a cause for concern or not. You make me feel as if my time on you has all been wasted. You promised me you'll try. That you'll be good. What happened? I don't like to have to schold you.

You think I like to?!