| Coffeeshop Chit Chat - School kids badly brought up in S'pore |
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This morning I was standing in a bus filled with young school kids seated and some standing. Shouting in Mandarin and listening to loud Mandarin songs from their mobiles. Traveling along Bishan Rd. an elderly Indian gentleman boarded the bus carrying a load of books in a bag and carrying a sling bag across his shoulders. Standing with his heavy load, none of the kids desired to offer the elderly person with his heavy load a seat. While traveling along Bishan St.22 one of the male students aged about 16 years vacated a seat to alight. So the elderly Indian gent was about to occupy that vacant seat, when another schoolboy about 15 years of age standing nearby blocked that seat with his hands. I noticed the elderly gent asking, what he was trying to prove and gently removed his hands from blocking that seat to sit down. That 15 year old school boy got so mad and started screaming at the calm elderly person. Just than the other school boy who had vacated that seat earlier returned and threateningly told the elderly person that the seat was given to his friend and he should give that seat to his friend. The elderly person asked the boy as to why was his friend still standing when the seat was offered to him earlier. The boy still kept on asking as to why he took his friend's seat and the elderly man maintained that the seat was vacant and he was the first to occupy it although his friend tried to block the elderly person from occupying the seat. I also heard him tell off the boy that he did not own any seats in the bus to reserve for his friends and should have considerations for the elderly. Obviously he could nut understand English well as he sounded like a Singapore ah beng. Looking around as no other passengers were coming to his assistance and out of frustration he yelled at the elderly person to watch out and that he will be meeting him next time outside. The elderly person responded by saying, no need for next time and meeting right now will be fine. The young boy quickly got off the bus. The elderly Indian looked more like a teacher himself with all the books that he was carrying with him. The boy who tried to block the seat standing got off at the nearby Sin Ming Avenue near the condos where the schools are located. However what surprised me most was the way all the young student selfishly behaved in the bus with nil consideration for that old man with the heavy loads that he carried. At least they could have offered him a seat as most of the students got off at Sin Ming Avenue near the condos where the school is located.
I was just wondering what these schools are teaching our kids, to be behaving like these kids in the bus ! Sadly this school kid can even unashamedly go to the extent of threatening an old man over a seat, when they know that their school is nearby in Sin Ming Ave where they will be alighting soon.
Edited 4/11/2012 6:32 am ET by sunshinebolx
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