I have just finished reading Harry Potter, all seven of them.

And somehow they just remind me of what's going on in school. School really is undergoing some chaotic phase right now. Well, maybe, it always has been.

And it feels like there really is a Dark Lord in the school, who obviously I relate to a particular someone.

And indeed, the school can currently be divided into two groups: the 'Pures' and the mixed. 'Pures' referring to those students who have been in the school from the first year, while the mixed are the third-year-entrees.

Well, nowadays it really only is one group of mixed that are pristine, which is the current Year 6s. I won't say all individuals are the same, because some may have been conquered by the system or the majority.

One thing I notice is how the juniors never respect their seniors. Throughout my entire 3.5 years in this school, I have heard many cases of how juniors never respect their seniors. Perhaps they have never been in the mainstream and thus do not know the basic respect for their seniors. Pathetic, I say. This just shows how those 'Pures' do not know their basic respect.

One very common place of spotting such disrespect is at the lifts. I know how it is alright be be quite squashed in the lifts, but when it is so full… Do you expect anyone to constantly jump just to see how much the lift will bounce? Not only that, their bulky belongings just smack you all around as they go about enjoying their bouncy fiesta, without caring for anyone else. At this time, a senior gets annoyed and tells them to stop jumping. Their reply was, "You senior meh? Senior big ah?"

Also, there was once last year when we were waiting for the lifts to go to the 5^th floor, from the 1^st floor. It was raining that day so most of the Year 5s then decided to take the lifts. The lift first came from the 3^rd floor (concourse), and hung there for a little while before descending to the 1^st floor, where we were waiting. When the doors opened we saw this whole bunch of midget kids, and there wasn't enough space anymore. One of them boomed arrogantly, "NO SPACE BYEBYE!" and closed the lift doors. The funny thing, it stopped on the 4^th floor before coming down again. They took the lifts from the 3^rd floor to the 4^th floor. WTs.

Well, not only the students. The system seem to think we're unworthy of any senior privileges. This year they shifted our classrooms away to make way for Year 3s. Furthermore, they allotted one class the stairwell. So then they shifted that class to a classroom on another block, right in the middle of the Year 4s. While they argued it is unfair to split the Year 4s into clusters of 4 or 3, they think it alright to isolate one class from the entire level. And when the point was presented, they said this, "As seniors, we should give way for the younger ones."

Like what the? The juniors don't even regard us appropriately, and we're supposed to take their shit, even letting them have their way?

And things are going downhill after we had a change in principals. Whatever made my school such an awesome, special, and homely place was destroyed and slowly became more like a mainstream school. That is, a mainstream shell, and a sucky internal discipline. These two don't go well together. Teachers slowly left; to the point where the current Year 6s find it hard to find a teacher that has been with them for their entire school life. ALL our original mentors left. There is nothing we can say that is unique to us, except for our 'mixed' status.

I don't say that our current principal is bad or what. Yes, indeed he has brought our school to greater heights, let the world see us for who we are. Everything on the external is nice, glorious, and shiny. But I feel that the insides are slowly degenerating. The discipline is focused of the wrong areas, and everything just seems wrong.

Our new DM wasn't as good as the last. He honestly did not command much respect from the population. On formal days, he is the only one not wearing formal wear, just because his teaching area suggests lightwear. I mean, yes, other teachers teaching in the same field don't wear formal too, but I find it really hard to see a DM seriously if he isn't exactly abiding by the school rules. There was also that once he was reprimanding the school about being disrespectful, but while he was addressing us, he was leading on the podium on one arm, giving a sloppy appearance.

Oh, and there was once I got yelled at by a teacher just because I was going to school from the hostel for a short meeting, and I didn't tie my hair up. That was, anyway, post-exam period. Adding in the constant hair and attire checks, I don't really understand why the school is putting so much effort into attire checks. As I said, shiny outside, rotten inside.

Another thing is about food and drinks outside canteen. The whole idea is to NOT dirty the school or attracting pests. Many people have been scolded for bringing outside of the canteen. And scold means scolding, not just telling us to not bring it out of the canteen and to throw the food away.

Which brings me to the point that miscellaneous non-working staff in the school are having too much authority for their own good. This includes security guards. You know, they can scold students for anything they want to, like bouncing balls or something like that. SCOLD. I say, SCOLD. But after seeing how terrible the discipline is, I think they have such authority to handle the nonsense people in the school.

Recently, there has been a vandalism in school, as well as an outright questioning of the management and leadership department. I don't really see anything done about it. Being on the light side of these evil movements in school (thanks to information from dear dark lord), all I see in the whole thing is FAIL.

They never manage to solve such mischief in school, and the students are just going crazy just because they know that they never get caught. Also thanks to dear dark lord, who has a pool of his evil minions and spawn, I have a feeling this will never end. It must be bad fengshui for the school to attract such dark sort of people. Because, you know, all trouble just stem from one person. And you can't blame dear dark lord because… see? He didn't put his hand in it! He just made his little minions, or encourage them, to do so. And they will never be caught, partly because the school doesn't care. And all these I deduced from that blog of his.

Now the school can't trust its students, especially the 'Pures'. I remembered the time last year when we were encouraged to write our well-wishes on those balls that are going to be released into the Singapore River for New Year party. There were a great number of people writing sexual stuff, explicit stuff on the balls! I don't think in any mainstream school has such idiots. And yes, they were written by Pures, because I've seen them write those.

It really doesn't work to form the school up mainstream way, and expect people to behave sensibly. At least, not in our school. Creative minds, they also produce creative shit. Shit that can't be removed the normal way, get what I mean.

I'm lucky I only have a few more months left in my school. I honestly, really, loved the school. And now when everything seems all downhill, I only have that much to cherish, and the rest, I let go and escape. Because there's no way to fight it. Not anymore.