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Catholic High Sch Principal: Must Win At All Costs!

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[/h] [h=3][/h]MISUNDERSTOOD: Catholic High School principal Lee was surprised by the way his students had interpreted what was meant to be a "well-intended challenge".











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Published on Sep 03, 2014
[h=2]'Heartless' words by principal get students' goat[/h]


FOO JIE YING


WE WANT to be known as a school of champions, not a school of first runners-up.

Catholic High School (CHS) principal Lee Hak Boon told this to the entire school on Friday morning.

But what was meant to be a motivational speech rubbed some students the wrong way.

It started with representatives from the basketball, softball and volleyball teams presenting their runner-up trophies to Mr Lee.

The three C Division teams had missed the top spot narrowly in recent inter-school matches. In the basketball match, for instance, CHS lost to North Vista Secondary School by just three points.
After receiving the trophies, Mr Lee addressed the school cohort, commending the CHS boys for their fighting spirit.

He then said the school has the potential to be champions next year if it learns from the winning teams, and added: "If we could be champions, why settle for runners-up?"

One student felt Mr Lee was "heartless" in saying this.

"If this is what schools teach, that we must win at all costs, then something is clearly very wrong with the education system," he told The New Paper in an e-mail message.

Another student said in a separate e-mail message: "Mr Lee did not care about their feelings. He simply told the entire school that our players were inferior, right in front of the teams."

But a parent who heard Mr Lee's speech was puzzled by the negative reactions.

Leasing officer Christopher Yong, 53, was at CHS to root for his 14-year-old son, the vice-captain of the C Division softball team.

"If you ask me to interpret (the speech), I would say, yes, (there is) a little bit of disappointment from the principal at having got three silvers. But there were no ill feelings," he said.

Mr Yong said the principal would be present at every match and competition. He added: "He even went the extra mile to conduct motivational workshops for the softball boys three times a week. If he really didn't care about the students, why would he do that?"

Mr Lee was surprised by how his students had interpreted what was meant to be a "well-intended challenge".

But he acknowledged some of them could have misunderstood his intentions as they were still dazed by the losses.

Emphasising that he was proud of his students' achievements, Mr Lee said: "Our school believes in celebrating our students' achievements, and guiding them to have a mindset of striving for improvement.
"At the same time, I had intended to spur our students to learn from the winning teams and work on areas of improvement."

He said he addressed the students on Monday morning to "clarify and commend the CCA (co-curricular activity) students again for their fighting spirit and achievements".

THE NEW PAPER
 

SNTCK

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Nowadays, principal stressed, teachers stressed. Pupils stressed. Everybody stressed...
 

frenchbriefs

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Nowadays, principal stressed, teachers stressed. Pupils stressed. Everybody stressed...

sinkies are stressed....suffocating....heres a treatise on sinkies i wrote

Illusions,artificially engineered perceptions of happiness,like a commercial showing off a happy couple living in a marine parade condo....like the kind of manufactured love u find in a diamond ring advertisement,perfect,elegant,0.9 carat,beautifully chiseled by the hands of craftsmen from Belgium or a poster on a bank wall showing off a father son sharing a bonding moment with the words..."interest rates as low as 2.9% conditions apply"

In reality sinkies are in pain and misery,suffocated by the pressures of society and trying to fulfill unrealistic expectations.abused and tortured and scolded and made to feel inadequate and inferior.this is what Singapore is....country of unrealistic expectations and dysfunctionality.sinkies have become numb and emotionless...they have learnt to accept and welcome the pain.they want to lash out at the world but they can't...years and years of abuse have robbed them of their will...their dignity.....an self perpetuating cycle of abuse.....like a gimp chained up and ball gagged and locked in the basement.....Singaporeans are gimps...chained.....ball gagged and locked in the basement mindless zombies....

U will never find happiness in Singapore because it cannot exist here....this country is sick....a sickness perpetuated by sick men...we are prisoners....better to migrate to Australia.
 

uvwxyz

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Nowadays everyone, especially if you are in public office, must use lawyer's language to communicate intentions otherwise people can misinterpret and say all sorts of things which you never meant to say. Its very stressful to live in this kind of environment.
 

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Of course, he is disappointed. Can you imagine what will happen to his bonuses for the year 2014 if he got champion for all the 3 sporting events ? His bonus will sky rocket together with his profile. It will help a lot in his career in the government service.

He should have said

" School, we have put our best foot forward. It is natural for people wanting to be the best in every thing they participate." It is also natural for school to feel disappointed for not being able to be champion. Anyway, we will try again next year. Champion or not is not really an issue.If we are only good enough to be at 2nd spot for this year, satisfied that will be for this year. We will try to be even better then ourselves for next year. School, i just want to tell you that there won't be a best year in your life, it will be only get better next year or next try. We will be better next time.
As for the sport men we have in school , we as a school will be behind you all the way no matter which position you come in.

Behind closed door with teachers :

Teachers, i think we must be a champion next year. We must win AT ALL COST. Any question ? If no , please get back to work immediately.
 

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... "If we could be champions, why settle for runners-up?" ...
ya, man! ...

juz like sia, wen world lumpar 1, can boast in dat 154th ... wen not, can oni diam-diam, so no face! ... like nus, wen rank inside top 10 ... can blow trumpet loud-loud in dat 154th ... wen rank outside, say ranking sos not reliable ...


dat principal s2pig la ... if want 2 b champions, follow dat jamban woman, go buy from china ...
 

Yingge

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What's wrong when a principal told the students to do better??? They are runner-up this year and aim for champion next year???

You want the principal to say this year we runner-up... Next year we aim for 2nd runner-up!!!:eek:
 

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So called high achievers always talk like that. Want to win only.

thats the sickness this country has,when cannot win cannot achieve perfection,import foreigners to win for u,import foreigners to build the country for u and drive the economy for u......

singapore a country living in delusions.cannot accept who they are,that singaporeans are inferior quality peasants,born losers,losers pretending to be winners.
 
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@rmadill0

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I think it is just the way he put it. Nothing wrong for asking the students to work harder and go and win it next year. He can't possibly be saying that he is happy with being second and hope that they will be second again next year right?
 

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There's "War Generals" and there are "Post War Generals"!
Guess what Singapore have? "What War Generals?"
 

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In living for the future, he has forgotten about the present - the accomplishment of the boys
 
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