So i read an article regarding a women's opinion on how the
government has done little in shaping and grooming the youth of the Singapore
society. teenagers has been misbehaving and thus she suggested sending them to
military boot camps to shape them just like south korea did. upon reading this i
immediately disagreed and felt the need to share my opinions about
this.
firstly, she said "However, it is a dismal sight when small children
morph into teenagers. It seems to me, little is done to shape and groom the
youth of the Singapore society. " this is wrong as the government are doing
their parts to shape teenagers primary and secondary age. regarding to this, MOE
did say that by the end of secondary school, students would be able to develop
SEL which would help them mature. also, as a student myself, i do remember going
through many progragmmes that always emphasized on character development and how
we can make right decision with the correct mindset. _http://www.moe.gov.sg/education/programmes/social-emotional-learning/
she also said. "Is it any wonder then that we often hear of cases
where teenagers engage in fights, staring incidents, and all sorts of trouble? "
i believe she said this from her own experience with her her kids. she did not
have to generalize all teenagers that they cause trouble. yes we do cause
trouble, but we teenager also do good too and there are
proof.
another statement was "Some argue that discipline is done at home.
But if education is a service in the public domain, is it not reasonable to
argue that discipline, as part of education, is the government’s onus?" since as
mentioned above, the government already did do their part for the youth n
Singapore, then it comes down to discipline at home. the child learns the most
at home because their parents. we would pick up things that they do. so if the
parent themselves did not set an example and meet the child's emotional needs,
the child themself would be rebellious and lack of
values.
All in all because of all this problems she suggested to send them to
boot camps. I definitely disagree. Yes it might help some teens to be more
discipline, but it can also do the opposite. I myself as a teen would dislike
going to the camp. I would really be mad at my parents and could even result to
worst things like running away. There also are articles that because of stress
that people would do stupid things like suicide. If the camp makes the teens
stress , such things might even happen. Especially in Singapore where we are living very comfortable
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ReplyDeleteI like the way they provide evidences from the Ministry of Education website to support what they are trying to say.
ReplyDeleteI feel that it is true that by enforcing the boot camp it might trigger more negative actions just to avoid going to boot camp. I like how you guys provided the picture of how a child is developed after going through a secondary school, as in what a child will roughly know or can executed after their secondary school education.
ReplyDeleteI like how a balanced view is given and I wonder what other alternative approaches do you have to nurture the behaviour of youths.
ReplyDeleteI like how they actually went into detail onto how that there is possibility that camps will make the teenagers go worst.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you could have attach some statistics to support on how MOE have helped in nurturing them.
I like how you justify , defend , substiantiate with other information like eg "Is it any wonder then that we often hear of cases where teenagers engage in fights, staring incidents, and all sorts of trouble? " then stating their opinion i believe she said this from her own experience with her her kids. she did not have to generalize all teenagers that they cause trouble. yes we do cause trouble, but we teenager also do good too and there are proof. it is a good job but it could be a better job if the actual evidence was there
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ReplyDeleteI like how you thought of the two consequences that can happen when parents send their children to boot camps. The probability will make adult readers consider as to whether they should send their children for boot camps. Perhaps your team should include alternatives for this. Such as sending their children to Youth groups in CCs and etc.
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DeleteI like the part where they wrote the example "Some argue that discipline is done at home." it's reasonable and i agree with it.
ReplyDeleteI like that in the end they said using the point of view of the child about going to bootcamp. And saying some consequences such as children might run away or even sucide. Hence this does support that what SOH KAN CHEONG proposed might not have been a helpful one
ReplyDeleteWould like to see any article that could back you up on your arguments. Would also like to see anymore evidence that could help on your other statements of disagreeing on the boot camp. For example, you could interview individual teenager on the streets as a neutral party to understand their stand point.
ReplyDeleteResponse was well written however there isn't much evidence to back up your support, else it will just be opinions. Similar to Mdm Soh Kan Cheong's article, she talked about her own children as her evidence and you set your personal experience as your evidence. However she did provide more solid evidence, like the NS man letting his maid carry his bag.
ReplyDeleteEdited: I wonder if you can substantiate your stand on "but we teenager also do good too and there are proof.". For example, Teenagers who made a big difference. Ritwika Mitra, 15, and Radhika Mitra, 19. Their movement artists and craftspeople in India and other countries by providing free tools, training and marketing assistance.
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