Unheard Complaining...

I have written and read this letter many times. I have never sent it, because i know the process that this letter will go through. It'snot worth the paper. But I will post it, because in my opinion it says a lot about education and it represents my feelings vey truthfully, it's not finished though...


Dear Principal (and "***" High School)

I am a proud learner who is in grade 12 this year, yes I am in your school, but I’m not entirely proud of that. I am appalled by *** High School’s performance and overall *(appearance).

In my opinion a school should first and foremost be an institution of learning and academic achievements, not sport and extra-mural activities. Yes a school should have a balanced influence of sport and culture, but that shouldn’t affect the basic education that the students should receive.

I was at your prize giving this year and I must express my disappointment in the whole event. I’m not judging the planners or the certain people that managed to do their part right. I want to complain about the people who miss spelt obvious things (like squash not sqaush etc), the people who messed up the presentation, the people who couldn’t manage to tell the students in the audience to be quiet etc. *** High School had some very important people there that night, as well as at other functions I’ve attended where the “service” was just as awful.

I am ashamed to say that I attended this school and very often I am upset by the standards that you, as a school, are lowering yourselves to. Your teachers do not all qualify to teach the certain subjects that they do, some of them clearly get recognition for things they don’t actually do themselves where other teachers don’t get enough if any attention for the brilliant work they do. I think that is why the school has lost so many valuable teachers recently.

I’m not being ungrateful for the great things we do have at this school, I’m saying that the focus is on the wrong things. The school has great spirit and great culture and history but what matters most in a person’s life is firstly their education and GENERAL knowledge, then what they achieve with that knowledge and the time they spend perfecting their lives. I cannot explain how sad it is to see that the “book smart” people get greater recognition that those who are logical and generally clever. People tell me that that is the way it works in a general public school and that the logical people should be in technical schools. I disagree; every person on this earth has a right to education and more specifically to the same equal education. This should point out that equal recognition is also required.

When it's all over...

It’s not like giving them a hug, saying goodbye and never seeing them again. You don’t even get that last goodbye. They just leave. And that scares me. You never know when it might happen. You never know whether that last quick ‘bye’ will be your last. Considering the fact that I have no absolute experience of this, I can still cry out my eyes for hours. I’m scared of losing the people closest to me, or anyone I know for that matter. But I realise that every morning I wake up might already be too late. You never know when it might be the end of someone’s road, they might decide (wrongfully) or someone else could decide for them, they could resist it or go with it peacefully; whichever way it happens, it’s going to happen. How we respond and react to it will be the only option we have in the entire situation.

~ Inspired by Rails & Ties

Why?

Why do we, as humans, write? Why do we read poetry and listen to music? Why do we sing and dance?

Imagine we didn't... Imagine what life would be without that fine definition of culture and "passion" in our lives...