This is excellent but let's also be realistic that it was exceptional. If most of us expect educators to be like this principal, you will end up the loser. To be realistic, better own your own problems and solve them. Roystan was one extremely lucky fellow and Mrs Ng-Gan a true gem.
What the system can do and Heng Swee Keat has gone out of his way to promote is to create the culture for more of such rare interventions to occur. He will figure a way to reward and promote such educators but the rest of us have to be patient. The inertia in the behemoth of an education system is huge. Good things can and will happen but they don't happen quickly enough to make sufficient impact at the micro level i.e., pupils and their families. Like they say a nation can win a war but there are many tragic family stories on the path to victory. You don't want to be a statistic of the broad tragedy.
Politics and Education are strange bedfellows. You need quick results in politics but education's fruits are like waiting for the durian tree to grow up. He must persuade the people successfully and voters must be mature about this matter.
If Royston is now viewed as a role model with such "breadth & depth", then why not give him his full recognition by screening "15" over our official TV channels. By the way, it has been reported that "15" has a gay theme. So does this mean that our Education Minister is now ready to admit that our society is no longer conservative ?
ReplyDeleteWe know for a fact that our G is homophobic. So unless and until they walk the talk, please do not try to talk cock only when it suits them ?