To top it off.... The unjustice of the 'commendable leadership' certifications.

Let me talk more about it.

So there were a handful of recipients. Some of them worthy or receiving it, and some weren't. In any case, this post isn't a flame post so I am not writing about those recipients.

The main categories went like that: Present councillors, CCA leaders, Present mentor representatives.

By the way, this is assuming that this 'commendable leadership' certificate is given out to people in Year 6, not a yearly event.

Firstly, councillors. I find it really convenient how they just take the names of those in council and plop it in to the recipients list. Like, do they even bother evaluating the contributions to the student council and the school?

Also, WHAT THE CRAP happened to the PSLs? The PSL board is shut down for still less than and year, and the school conveniently, FORGETS that it even existed.

So that means, those PSLs that worked for 2 years before someone's great idea to get rid of it, in paper have never done anything to deserve a certificate that is so easily given to people's names who are in the council right now?

I'll talk more about the PSLs later.

Secondly, CCA leaders. Last year, they gave all president and vice president positions to the year 4s for the supposed backup LEAPS system. And coz of that, the year 6s this year didn't get such a chance. Some CCAs though, still had people from our batch as presidents, somehow.

If a handover was done this year, does that mean that those people never done anything?

If a student CCA leader who has worked for a year, this year, can get such a certificate, don't those CCA leaders last year deserve one too?

Thirdly, mentor representatives. They were only given to the mentor representatives who worked for this year. What about the previous years? From year 3 to 5?

So if the current mentor representatives can get a certificate for that, why don't the previous mentor reps deserve one too?

If all it takes to receive an award for 'commendable leadership' is to hold a leadership position in the final year, what is the point of having this award?

Going by this logic, if I do the last question of my exam paper, I get an A+, even if I didn't do the front questions. And if someone did ALL the questions in the front and couldn't do the last question, then they get anything lower than an B+.

In that case, let's just do the last question and go to sleep. Do the last question in the last assignment of the module and get an A. File in the last page of your file and get full marks.

Also, when in work, go to work on the day they give the salary, and receive your salary plus a bonus for excellent work attitude. Because it doesn't matter how much you work on the days the salary isn't being given out.

Oh, why not be the last person in the level and then you get a guaranteed admission into Harvard?

Well cool. Then people will try to NOT be the first. Don't even have to do a single assignment or exam, get the last position, tadah! The best student in the level. Best ever.

Okay, I'm going to talk a little more about PSLs.

For those who didn't know, being in the peer support board is the best moment in my life because it is the very first time I'm given the opportunity to serve the school in an official leadership board. I was very happy with PSL, and felt good doing the things I (we) do as PSLs. Events we planned always leave a very strong impression in the school and the students.

Until one day, when a special person came in from the outside. This person didn't even know the school well enough, and still came up with the brilliant idea of shutting down the PSLs.

His reason: The PSLs and councillors are always like... having negative feelings... Then the PSLs also like.... fighting over events and stuff like that. Maybe do you feel that the PSLs starting to do what the council supposed to do...

We tried to fight for the PSLs. Eventually, it got shut down, but was termed as 'merger'.

Seriously, when does the new 'Student Council' become a merger... When the name stays the same as the old thing?

Admit it man, you shut the board down.

And now you aren't even caring about the current student council.

Great, now I don't even see your brilliant new student council doing fun events for us to enjoy. Where's Youth Day? Where's Artsfest? Where's your presence?

And now the school is doing EVERYTHING they can to remove any traces of the existence of a PSL board.

Below are going to be my own personal thoughts. Gonna make it white so it's harder to read. If you don't like my personal thoughts, don't read it. You have been warned.