It’s almost over
I didn’t quite follow my resolve to take photo chronicles for each of the twenty last school days.
Anyway, the past school week was stressful. It was when most of the last high shcool projects’ deadlines piled up. The most stressful project of all was the Physics chain reaction project. I’m not really into manually making projects that have to move as designed. We used the holiday last Wednesday to cram the project which was due the following day. We did the project at Rene’s house in Antipolo.
By Thursday, I was embarrassed with our slipshod project. It was just a bunch of cardboard boxes and styro piled into one junk. Haha.
Thursday also marked our TD kids’ graduation from TD tutoring. We awarded our kids with certificates. I was the emcee of the event so I just commissioned one of my classmates to take pictures for me with my camera.
What Andrew told me about our TD kids (the day before) kind of depressed me. He said, our tutoring won’t really affect these kids because we can barely barely possibly help them from the very start. It’s almost impossible to dramatically reverse years of ill-training under the government’s public teaching system. A lot of them were seriously just like kindergarteners. What they need weren’t lazy, ill-trained TD tutors like us. He said, it’s our exposure to this depressing situation that would really matter in the long run. It’s sad, but I guess that’s true.
Yesterday, Friday, was our CAT graduation. Didn’t matter much. It’s a pity we didn’t really get to do real citizen military training. (But then, that’s okay because it meant that we didn’t really do any constant physically strenuous activities during the year).
your TD kids look happy. blah… we still have a month to go in school..
Some classmates of yours look familiar… very familiar.
By the way, I love the shot of the 2 girls towards the end of your entry. Did you take that or is it your friend’s shot?
CRUISE CONTROL: I like that picture too. But that was my classmate’s shot.
td is over.
and life goes on.
sadly, that’s the way life goes.
we go back to paradise.
and they…
“What Andrew told me about our TD kids (the day before) kind of depressed me. He said, our tutoring won’t really affect these kids because they were helpless from the very start. A lot of them were seriously as dumb as kindergarteners. What they need weren’t lazy, ill-trained TD tutors like us. He said, it’s our exposure to this depressing situation that would really matter in the long run. It’s sad, but I guess that’s true.”
- A person is never born stupid or dumb, they were just never taught in the begining. The fact that you believe that they are hopeless to begin with, its just moraly wrong and decietful. dont you think that these kids need a little hope in their life. Not everyone is privilaged. to me you and your friends just appeal more how do i say this, “mayabang”. Dont think that tutoring these kids gives them more knowledge which will eventually build up. Think, what if you were one of them and no one had any FAITH in you? What would that feel like? Well i dont believe in discouragements… Put it this way, even Einstein wasnt born smart.
KATHY: Ehem, my point was: “What they need weren’t lazy, ill-trained TD tutors like us.”
You asked, “Dont you think that tutoring these kids gives them more knowledge which will eventually build up?”
Not enough. We can only do so much. I said helpless relative to how we are teaching them. I never said hopeless. Our TD subject didn’t have an “alleviate them from poverty” objective in the first place. We can’t do that as high school kids!! The point was to just assist them in their studies, and learn and realize that society needs to provide them with better opportunities as human beings.
Hm, and at the very least, we had the opportunity to come face to face with this crisis in the philippine’s public education system, and society as a whole. Have you?
my appoligies for my sudden synical outburst. i was applaude by the fact that you believe in stupidity. The use of helpless came off somewhat redundant that if one is helpless it is stating that nothing can be done to achieve any prosperous growth. But i realized what you ment from the difference between hopeless and helpless. their definition is so closely tied that i may have skipped over it.
your comments seems sencere and understandable but i will keep to myself. and you ask if i have helped. and yes i have, but i am not like you who choose to judge your own people or their poverty. why be so judgemental? people are people.
KATHY: I wish to apologize for my rude rebuttal
All is well.