the LEAPS system for the cca points is just so retarded.
i don't know if your cca teachers have explained all these to you but this was what me retarded teacher told me :
1) for every year of competition that you join, you get 1 pt. regardless of how many competitions you join per year, you still get 1 pt. but if you win like gold, silver or bronze, that's another story. if you win either of those 3 there will be added pts for that.
2) the teacher has the authority of how many pts she want to give you. so if you have alot of trouble with you, she can just not give you the 4 pts that you should have for membership in the cca for 4 years. she can just fail you without a valid reason.
3) for ccas like computer club, they don't provide you for CIP hours. so no choice, you have to find activities that give you CIP hours. this is one of the most retarded pt. if not wrong, the minimum requirement to get pts for cca through CIP hours is to clock in a minimum of 120 hours. that's crazy. only people from ccas like scouts can do that.
4) leadership matters : only the person with the highest post will get his pts. chairman : 5 cca pts. i'm so gonna kill my teacher for this one. worked so hard to earn a position in the commitee and this is what i get. i'm not sure about other ccas. but i think most clubs and societies will be affected. so other post like treasurer for level rep for that cca, you don't get the pts. for that. only the chairman will.
5) the highest grade that a person from a club or from society will get is around a B4. lucky ones will get above that. this is so retarded. what's the point of being committed to something wholeheartedly, putting your studies at stake and at the end of the day you don't get rewarded, not as in money. but you don't even acheive anything at the end of the day.
i sacrificed so much of my time for the last 2 years over the robotics thing, even have to go to the extend of skipping tuition because of that. and in the end i actually failed my maths during CT2 of the streaming year, something that i've nvr done before in my entire schooling life. and at the end of the day, this is what i get.
regarding to pt 4: the teacher wants the sec 3s to organise an inter-class computer quiz. she even emphasized on taking the initiative. so normally this kind of thing, the teacher would straightaway look for the commitee members.
and what? how to expect the other people with exception of the chairman, to be cooperative? yes, they will given pts for helping out in a so called " school event ", but at the end of the 4th year, will they be given extra pts for the post that they hold in the commitee? now, even the chairman, has no choice but to be the teacher's pet and listen to her instructions because she has the authority and right not to give him the cca pts that he deserve.
and the most important part is that, the current batch of sec 1s and 2s, together with the next batch of sec 1s, will be doing a joint-project with temesak poly over some stupid programme that will last 3 years. they will be taught skills that we and our seniors didn't learn throughout our entire life in the cca. and they will get to earn more pts than us more easily. what kind of retarded and stupid decision is that? it's not being fair to us.
computer club is a cca of lies. it's not that the members lie, it's the teachers and trainers who lie. i might be a member, but this is the truth. i speak for the truth.
in the brochure of the cca recruitment, they mentioned that programs like C++, Frontpage, Java will be taught. but now i've been a member for the 3rd year, and i've yet to be taught either one of them. LIES. i helped out in doing flash and posters for the cca recritment in the year 2005 and his year. and each time the teacher would force us to state as these programs that were not even being taught, just to attract people to join. i mean, what's the point? a cca like computer club should be kept small, what do you get at the end of the day by printing lies on a piece of paper and distribute out to parents and students?
one thing that i'm proud to say is i've equiped my skills by learning on my own. none of them was through computer club training. i've learnt a lot through mr yang in sec 1, but ever since mdm varsha took over because he went overseas to california i think, to further his studies in IT, i've learnt nth at all. we even had to pay for the things that we learn in sec 2 through IPW IT training. that's the only time when it was a real lesson then.
i seriously don't understand what the hell is MOE doing right now. singapore's education system is just so retarded. why create this stupid system when non-ug people do not benefit from it? man, i'm so gonna study hard and not count on cca. at most i will only get 1 pt deducted from L1R5.
posted by Rod @ 6:26 PM,
