sigh..... okie, this reply goes out to huimin
in case you didn't realise.... i'm getting a little sick of this debate... but okie, I'm open to different opinions... i just hope that you understand that I'm entitled to my opinion as you are entitled to yours.

1) if you think that I'm extremely biased... you are entitled to think so. I give opinions based on what I know... and maybe I know too little. but I'm not taking back what I feel because of the people whom I personally care alot for. people whom you don't know, who are around you, and are experiencing a tough time that I don't think they should be experiencing. no elaborations here. apologies... I have people whom I want to protect.

2) I feel that a person should have been given the opportunity to do whatever he wants... people are fully able think for themselves, if they have decided that it's ok for them to screw up the rest of their core syllabus for taking the s paper... they are fully entitled to do so... much as the school is right in 'thinking for the student's best interest', another point of view will go that who is the school to decide if the student have the rights to take s paper.

3) my arguement is distorted. thanks to my limited language abilities... my arguement is pretty much about the core A levels rather than s papers. the point about maximising results goes more for students dropping subject rather than s papers. and although it's not the only factor... i wonder if you can argue without blinking that making students drop subjects does not in a way pull up the standard of the school as a whole... go ahead. ok, it's not THE reason.... but whether it's an effect from making students drop subjects... i think so.... by droping one a level subject... it does give the student the extra time to study the other three subs... ok, let's take it to good will that the only reason for doing so is the allow the student to do will in his A levels.

5) huimin... maybe you can take s papers in another school? (if you want to that is) i don't know why this arguements is so driven towards s papers... cause i feel that my arguement is more towards the A levels. and dear... I think highly of you... even if you don't think highly of me.

6) i don't know if taking one s papers is equivalent to taking none. if you think so. fine. if the student chooses to take one s paper.... why not? it's his choice.

7) what about those in ITE? what about those in poly? you mean they don't have the academics potential? or is it because they are simply less exam smart? I think the second. and my arguement was driven toward the academics.

Thanks once again for letting me see your point of view, I like discussions like that. but, can i be irreasonable? dear... DON'T challenge me with "if u're game for it".... if this reply sounds harsh or rude or whatever... if it's this is gonna bitter our frenship... it's because of this game word.

btw, nice earrings!! (^-^)

actually... i'm not only referring specifically to [h c] here.... (so if you're taking this as an attack on [h c], it's NOT) i'm talking about the entire ranking system and education in Singapore by looking at an example.... which I have to say I regret choosing, is in this case. [h c]. it's a narrow arguement and i agree that it does not cover every point.

do continue defending [h c] it's a nice thing to see a person defending her school so much.... i wonder if i am able to defend my school so strongly...

i think this arguement is a point of perspective... if that's you're perspective, sure. but different people work differently, and I don't work your way... much as i criticize the system, the way some people do things, I do regconise that there's always two sides to the same thing. if my blog's title can shine any light... geminal paradox... both implying that i'm a person who have a pretty double sided character... and it also acknowledges the fact that there's always two distinctly different ways of looking at things... and there is not right or wrong to either side of opinions.

nat dear... yes, SN ROCKS.... although it's not perfect, I love that school.