As sexuality become a srutiny in schools, what most parents said to be lacking is the information about such programmes. "Many of the 20 parents interviewed by the strait times yesterday said that they had no idea what went on during sexuality education classes in school" sadi the strait tiems. I was surprised at this statistic.
This statistics shows only two things. One, the students think it is just a trivial matter and did not inform their parents in detail.
Two, this shows the mindsets of parents. One perception is that they are not interested in whatever talk the school is going and do not care as much. Thus, they do not ask for information from their child.
Fortunately, Minister Ng Eng Hen had promised that schools will inform parents of the framework and topics covered in the sexuality talk, and also post such information on the respective websites.
However, the issue of opting out was raised by the parents. Last year, less than 1 per cent of parents said no to letting their children go for such classes. This can be caused by willingness of parents to go for such classes or the lack of information that they can actually opt out.
Personally, I feel that there is a weak link between two; parents and teachers. Based on a interview done by the strait times, experts said that these two groups are not fully equipped to pass on the right information and values to children.
I think most parents are simply embarrassed to discuss the issue with their children. What is worse is that many simply push their responsiblity, and tell their children to get their answers from their teachers instead. Thus, I think teachers need more training to overcome the awkwardness of talking sex in class.
In my opinion, parents are uncomfortable talking about sex because they were not taught by their parents not to talk about it. They also do not have a superficial meaning of sex education. They think sex is about making babies, but actually it is"an emotional, physical adn psycological thing.
Parents like mine may argue that we might be just to young to understand sex and this could pollute our minds. However, I disagreed, supporting it with the idiom that "prevention is better than cure'. Would you rather have your children to be in trouble for sex or to be awkward about telling them about it?
I end this post with a statement. Sex education is essential.
Recently, there was announcement that said that with effect from Nov 1, night-parking charges for cars at carparks in Housing Board estates will be raised from $2 to $4.
However, I do not think it is a good way to ensure enough parking spaces for season-parking ticket holders, I think that it is only a short-sighted measure.
Firstly, if a car owner wants to park his car at a car park, he would have to pay the carpark fees no matter how much the charge are, the car owner still need a parking space for his car and thus have to park his car at the car parks. Thus it wont make any difference to the availablity of car parking slots.
So what can we do instead?
1) I suggests that the seasonal parking tickets may not be oversold. Tickets should be based on the number of carpark spaces for example one carpark may have 100 parking space so the management should only sell equal or sllightly more than 100 seasonal parking tickets and overselling those tickets may end up in not enough parking spaces.
2) Those motorists who parked with seasonal parking spaces without seasonal parking tickets should be awarded with a heavier penalty and fine so that it can deter those motorists in parking from those places so that they would be more available parking space.
Just merely increasing the price will not solve the problem.
Yo guys! Today I am going to talk about Paris, the food, the places etc.
For your information, Paris is the capital and the largest city of France. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France.
Paris? What do you associate it with when u hear of this amazing capital? Effiel Tower? You are right! Today I am going to talk about this magnificent architecture in France
Effiel Tower
This is the Eiffel tower. It is an 1889 iron lattice tower located in Paris.
Whats makes this tower amazing?
The tower stands 324 m (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building. It was the tallest man-made structure in the world from its completion until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930.
The tower has three levels for visitors. Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift to the first and second levels. The walk to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. The third and highest level is accessible only by lift. Both the first and second levels feature restaurants.
Read More......
Hi people! Today I am going to give you a little sneak preview about what I am going to blog in Term 3.
I have found interest in the current affairs that is happening all over the world and have decided to put this into my blog. Throughout the term, i would be posting up article links and sharing my views on them, using different POVs and suggesting how the thing could be improved.
Stay up for more posts coming along!
During the June Holidays, I volunteered to be involved in ACID camp.
You may ask, what is ACID?
ACID is actually an acronym for A Camp for Intellectually Disabled, it aims to provide a camp as a gathering for all the intellectually disabled people all around singapore to come together and have fun together.
During the ACID camp, I was actually very excited
Its the last week of the holidays and it means:
ITS TIME TO WORK AGAIN!
Yes, the holidays are coming, it means we have to get up from our "hibernation" and get working. That means this blog is going to spring to life again!
In this term, I decided to continue in my quest for the theme: national indentities, venturing out to other countries besides singapore, which is the one i did for term 1.
This term, I would also post my personal feelings about the incidents I have gone through in my school days.
So look out for my rejuvenated blog!