If you haven't read the news, read it HERE
Well, since it has GREAT relevance to my previous article on choir, SYF and how it is ruining my life, I shall do an article review about it.
If you do not know, SYF stands for Singapore Youth Festival. It is a competition held every 2 years and most schools participate in it. SYF is for performing arts, not uniformed groups/sports. Normally there are 5 ranks:
Gold with Honors (the best)
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Certificate of participation (the worst)
The schools make a freaking big deal out of SYF and use their awards to haolian (show off) how good their school is in terms of promoting the arts and culture(Wtf)
Firstly, I think many people misinterpreted the article. The article only talked about certificates, but it did not talk about the different types of certificates given out.So there won't be bronze, silver and gold awards anymore, i will be replaced of certificate of distinction, accomplishment and commendation. So there is still judging of choirs! Which I think, doesn't make a difference at all! I think people should calm their tits because there is still judging of our performances and our hard work wont go to waste! The only difference is that the awards are gone and they are replaced with certificates of different ranks.
To be honest, I welcome the change. Most of my friends/schoolmates rage about the change, but I think it's good because at least the government understands how SYF is stressful and takes up a lot of our time. It tries to change our perspectives on awards. So what if you got a Gold with Honors award in the SYF during your JC days? I mean you probably won't care about all that by the time you are working, when you are working. I mean who actually looks at your SYF record when you are gong for a job interview or applying for a scholarship? Seriously.
You hear teachers saying that everything is as important as studies but in this harsh world, they only look at your As/A*s. Ok maybe I don't really know but if I were a boss I will just look at his/her character and academic results not his/her CCA record. But I do agree that SYF matters if you want to be a dancer/singer or any job in the field of the arts. For common folk like you and me, em.. it doesn't really matter.
However, I feel that the new SYF has some flaws *deng deng deng*
"I have seen students putting in a lot of effort into training, which can last up to 7pm every week day. Sometimes, the students would be excused from lessons so that they can go for training sessions."
-Quoted by a teacher in the news article
Even with the new SYF, guess what? Nothing will change. Students will still stayback until 7pm for each training, students will still come back for Saturday practices and students will still have to skip lessons to attend to their CCA. Do you think that the CCA leaders/teachers will still let them off by having lesser practices?
NO.
FOR YOUR INFOMATION OUR NORMAL PRACTICES LAST UNTIL FREAKING 6.30PM.
So we will still have the suffer like some shit although this new scheme is supposedly trying to reduce our stress. Everyone will still treat it extremely seriously like it's a life and death event. Because everyone will be politically correct and be like, "Although the rules have changed our efforts still must remain and we should continue to put in our 100%.." Yeah, you know what I mean.
So overall, this thing will have a very small impact on us. If the government really wants to reduce stress, they should just cancel the whole SYF, seriously. I'm not kidding. Why cut the SYF by 20% when you can cut it by 100%? Either it's no SYF or SYF, no little changes/modifications are allowed. These things won't really benefit us.
Possible things the gov. could do
1) Put SYF to a stop
2) Put CCA to a stop (Even better lol.)
3) Impose a rule that in a week there must not be more than 6 hours of training
I think number 3 is the best and is the most valid. Here's am example to prove my point:
In every week we have 5 days of schooling. And for my timetable the maximum number of hours of a subject for a week is 5. That is for math, 1 hour for every schooling day.
If we put in 5 hours/week for math (a quite important subject), why must we put in more than 6 hours/week for our CCA(a not so important thing)?! LOGIC PEOPLE, LOGIC.
For the people who complain that SYF is the thing that actually motivates them to work even harder for the awards, well it's not about winning the awards. It's more about having passion in your CCA. It's about learning how to enjoy it and also strive to achieve for yourself (not for the award). Competing for awards is good, but what are we chasing the awards for? It's not about the awards awards awards, we don't need your awards awards awards, we just wanna make the world danceeeee.
I think instead of SYF they should organise a yearly school exchange where 4 schools can combine and then mix around and share their techniques/skills to doing well in their CCA? Obviously less stressful and more effective. No need for auditions, extra practices and what not. No one will die/cry!
Thank you. Lol.
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