  oh. nbsp;  i remembered that i went on a geography field trip to a meteorological station in changi,
 right&
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beside the airport.
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 spent about an hour traveling there in a smelly new bus.
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the place&
nbsp;
was small and the instruments were placed in a small open&
nbsp;
field beside the station.
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the trip was&
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useless and i didn't learn anything from it at all.
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the instruments&
nbsp;
were all&
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high- tech and automated,
 meaning that there wasn't much to see.
nbsp;
 for&
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example,  a little ufo shaped object sitting&
nbsp;
on top of a&
nbsp;
cylindrical stand was supposed to be for measuring air&
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humidity or something.
nbsp;
 what.
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 the.
nbsp;
 fuck.  and just as i was happy to leave the place,  the driver brought us back to changi airport.
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 we went to a small room which was supposed to be the place where they release weather information to the press.
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 we watched a video about some storm that hit singapore in 2001 and then another one about lightning.
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 retarded.  and there was this guy that was either inquisitive or just deprived.
nbsp;
 he simply had to look at everything there was to look at,  and touch everything there was to touch.
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 in the office,  he touched and looked at stuff that did not concern him at all,  such as the notes belonging to the workers and so on.
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 what.
nbsp;
 the.
nbsp;
 fuck.
 sji is a&
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stupid school.
nbsp;
 being&
nbsp;
one of the&
nbsp;
top"  independent schools,  they simply have to keep their rankings up.
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 this means that they would have to force 'weaker' students to drop out or repeat school again,  because if they&
nbsp;
fared badly in their o's,  sji's rankings would fall.
nbsp;
 as said&
nbsp;
by my maths teacher,  " for every f9 that is scored,  15 a1s is needed to pull the grades up.
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 thiru has been made to repeat sec 3 starting monday,  although many of my classmates think and know that there are many others that are doing much worse than him.
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 so the school has just made him waste one year of his life.
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 the fuckers could have&
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made him repeat before the year started or even after the mid- year exmas,  but they had to do it now.
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 3 months before the o's.
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 what.
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 the.
nbsp;
 fuck.
 i think that it is the responsibility of all schools to help their students to the fullest extent.
nbsp;
 sji claimed they were helping him but he wasn't helping himself.
nbsp;
 even if that is true,  as one of my classmates said,
 "
you can bring the horse to the water but you can't force the horse to drink.
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 therefore,  i believe that the school is obligated to allow him to take the exams,  and whether he does well or not,  it's his own problem.
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 but the fuckers didn't want that to happen because it would bring them the risk of dropping in the school rankings.
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 what.
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 the.
nbsp;
 fuck.
 now i understand why the ministry wants to do away with the rankings.
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 i say fuck the rankings and fuck sji.
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 i is stupid to think that the rankings are more important than the welfare of the student.
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 i don't think that it would help in any way for him to waste one year of his life.  i wonder if anyone is actually reading this blog.
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 there isin't a point of writing if no one is reading right?
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 so if you&
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are reading this,  drop a comment in so i can know if anyone does visit this blog at all.
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 bleah.
