Comments on: They don’t do it like it says on the tin anymore…Part I

By: savvy

savvy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:59:31 +0000

In my high school days, monolization was more of psychological. No one hit you, but if you meet at the paths with a senior (anyone in a higher class), you scamper aside. I remember this one friend of mine being called by form fours (you were not even allowed to enter their classes) and told to write the formula of grass on the board.

My brother told me how in his school, you could be called by a form four student and told to sing out his class notes because he was tired of reading them.

I loved my high school experience. Got into trouble once too many but came out fine in the end.

By: Shiko-Msa

Shiko-Msa — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:11:09 +0000

There is a general concern that we’re raising wimps although of course that depends on individual families.

Haki haven’t Monos seen it all! Some were asked to hold a smelly shoe, pretend it’s a phone hand set and have a conversation with an imaginary person on the other side. Others were asked to pretend one is a girl the other is a boy and then the boy tunes the girl. All with an audience laughing at you. I cant imagine the humiliation. All these are stories I’ve heard otherwise as much as I was in boarding school forever I was not monolised at all.

But I went to school in a very cold area. sometimes we’d wake up only to find the water frozen in the taps. Yet we still had to get up, take baths and do cleaning. I’ve no regrets about my tough school years though. It molds character and makes one appreciate life’s pleasures more. Oh and it teaches you to manage money.

By: Darius Stone

Darius Stone — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:34:18 +0000

@Tamtam…

After going through the said baptism, you get to totally appreciate what role it plays in helping you get a perspective of life. Setting aside the rights or wrongs of it, it served its purpose of making one grow up very fast.

Kids these days divorce their parents in court – its a brave new world out there….

@Farmgal – that was just the first hour….LOL! It was a very long time as a rabble.

@Mystic – tree hugging was for those who had notes from their doctors supporting the ascertion that regular bootcamp activities could be fatal to them….There were even some who were forced to climb trees and spend a considerable amount of time singing or doing something crazy

My brand new hockey stick was broken within a few days – and I hadn’t even ventured into any hockey pitch – I think I was more concerned about my potential broken bones than broken pieces of curved wood.

By: Mystic

Mystic — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:39:13 +0000

OMG this brings back such vivid memories of being ordered to hug trees and having the spring netting of the bunker beds removed and hidden. not to mention massacre where all rubbles would be locked in a dark room and unexpectedly showered with all sorts of trash and crude weapons like hockey sticks. I must agree, kids of nowadays are really having it easy and they all grow up to become woosies!

By: farmgal

farmgal — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:54:40 +0000

Dude you were rebelled on your first day or is it hour in school?!!
Am glad I never went through monolization …

But as much as I hated boarding school, like 3toc -I would do it again!

By: Tamtam

Tamtam — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:02:57 +0000

Darius,

What a baptism of fire, at your school. Pole, even though you enjoyed it there. Each to their own.

You are right, it is tricky bringing up kids in this country. I find most of them have no discipline. I know a kid who called social services on her parents, lied just so she could move out of home. Sadly her siblings were put into care, and her parents had done nothing.