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Lower Secondary Boys And Girls Are a Bunch Of Spoiled Brats

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During one of the morning assemblies, Mr Raj talked about pride. He kept reiterating and emphasizing the definition of school pride and the pride we had in ourselves. Now the question is, do West Spring students have school pride? Are West Spring students proud of themselves and themselves?

After five years being part of the West Spring clan, I am proud to stand up and say that I have the West Spring blood in me. And I sincerely believe that the seniors in the clan, comprising of Secondary 4 and 5, have school pride within them. This can be seen in the past week morning assemblies when the seniors said out the school cheer enthusiastically with full of gusto and zest. Unfortunately, in my opinion, I strongly believe that the lower secondary batch, comprising of the Secondary 1,2 and 3, sadly lacking pride for themselves and also, the school, and last Saturday event at the National Stadium showed it all.

Last Saturday, our school Military Band participated in the biannual SYF (Singapore Youth Festival) Band Display Competition. It was a high key event and the entire junior batch of the West Spring family went down to the National Stadium to show their support for the Military band. The ambience of the place was radiating with school pride and zeal as other schools showed their support by cheering out loud for their band and running around the stadium with their school flag. The school, which sat next to, our school even brought kompangs. Then I thought that maybe our would be like that to, uniting as one and going all out to support our band, just like the past two years when we screamed our lungs out just for our band. Unfortunately, I was wrong.

Generally, our cheers were weak and it was apparent that the junior batch was not a zealous supporter of our school band. From my observation, the only things that the juniors were good and enthusiastic at were, insulting and jeering at other schools?band performances and supporters, shouting vulgarities and other negative things which I am too embarrassed to state it down.

I encountered one perfect example of such group of students and they are the bunch of secondary 2 normal academic Chinese girls who sat in front of me throughout the whole event. That group of young adolescents was unruly, insolent and inconsiderate. In other words, they have no pride in themselves and brought a bad image to the school. The girls talked loudly, insulting and jeering at other schools?band performance and supporters?who ran past us with their school flag. I was flabbergasted with their actions and commented loudly that they act like a bunch of sore losers who did not have a sense of sportsmanship instilled in them. Instead of changing their childish behavior, they continued making remarks about other schools. Then, when our school result was about to be announced, those idiotic girls screamed their lungs out. As a result, the rest of us were left dumbfounded, not knowing the results due to the girls?hysterical screams. By then, my face turned livid. The girls did not realize that my irritation towards them had mounted to quivering indignation. I pointed out loudly and sputtered angrily that they had screamed at the wrong time and cant they use their brains for once. One of the girls turned and glared at me. She should not blame me for my harsh and acerbic tone because she and her friends had committed a grave mistake this time. After the ceremony ended, all of us stood up and started heading to the carpark to board the buses. I spotted a can of potato chips left behind at the bench. I recalled that one of the girls eating from the same can of potato chips. I called and asked them to pick up their litter. Then, out of anger, I added that they only knew how to eat but did not know how to dispose their litter. One of the girls was hostile to comments and tends to substitute real speech with vulgarities. She incessantly spewing invectives at me and I was taken aback.

I regret that the other schools had to witness the negative attitude of West Spring students. I fear that these schools will have a negative perception of West Spring Secondary just because of the lower secondary batch conduct at the National Stadium.

Done by: Khadijah bte Kamarozaman of Class 5B

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