Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Sometimes, I think that the Arts students in our school are being marginalized.

This is what I have felt over my one and the half years span in my school. One of the factors that has contributed to such a conclusion would be the classrooms we are always allocated to.

In my first year in my school, during the first few months, almost all the art classes did not have a home room. They claimed that they did not have enough classrooms for us, so most of our lessons were conducted the science lab, where the sinks and tables are usually wet after the all the experiments. And I think is so ironical that we, as arts student, spent more time in the science lab then the science student.

To make things even weirder, most of the science students spent their time in the geography room or English room, taking science lessons.

As a geography student, I have never, in my school course there had my lessons conducted in the geography room.

They told us to put up with it, and promised that once the container block was done, we would have a decent classroom. Thus we endured.

Finally, after 3 months of studying in the non-conducive science lab, we were finally allocated a classroom in the container block with air conditioning. Yay~

But happy days did not last long, this year, our homeroom was re-shuffled. And most of the homerooms for the arts classes were moved to block two. This block had the smallest ‘classrooms’ a school can ever have. One classroom in block two is only half of the normal classroom. In addition, the room do not even have proper tables and chairs, instead, we have chairs with a tiny ‘table’ attached to it and the science students gets to occupy the air conditional rooms.

That is the disparity in the treatment of the students taking the two different classes. The classrooms they allocate us to.

They could at least try to make it less obvious.

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