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Seriously disappointed. The School Head is another idiot to allow this to happen. The parents should have donated these things to the poor and the needy. I am sure the parent who donated $1K did not remain anonymous.
Donating to a school building fund or to a scholarship for needy student or for school funfair is the traditional approach to show gratitude to the school. Door gifts, lucky draw, special lunch etc. What next?
The parents behind the letter feel that the arrangement was too extravagant and corrupts the spirit and ideals of teachers. The letter also insists that such "grandiose" projects must stop.
The world had changed, it used to be, just sandwiches, tea or coffee, or maybe some 'finger food', but the people had allowed values to change, as a result, display of oppulence is the norm these days.
Seriously disappointed. The School Head is another idiot to allow this to happen. The parents should have donated these things to the poor and the needy. I am sure the parent who donated $1K did not remain anonymous.
Donating to a school building fund or to a scholarship for needy student or for school funfair is the traditional approach to show gratitude to the school. Door gifts, lucky draw, special lunch etc. What next?
Why am I not surprised? It produced LKY, GCT, TT Durai and Kong Hee inter alia.
As much as it is a form of corruption plain and simple, what is more insidious is that it also corrupts the minds of our teachers! Where do we draw the line or what next? Overseas pow-wows; best-dressed teacher contests?
Things certainly had changed, for better or for worst. For a noble profession the word 'noble' had taken another meaning. It's no wonder a sumptuous lunch from donations can be a justification for a gesture of appreciation.
Noble? This word probably doesn't exist anymore in Singapore. It started from the very top. Our political leaders.
It is all about the money.
Are the parents not jumping to their own conclusions that their donations have gone on to pay for the "sumptuous" lunch on Teacher's Day? Nowhere was this proven or evidenced.
Just because the lunch looked sumptuous made some parents assumed that their donations have gone into it. What the school shld have done was to produce a statement of accounts showing the integrity of those donations as separated from the moneys that went into the lunch.
contrast this to parents offering to make donations just to get their kids into prestigious schools...isn't that another form of corruption?
Donating to a school building fund or to a scholarship for needy student or for school funfair is the traditional approach to show gratitude to the school. Door gifts, lucky draw, special lunch etc. What next?