A Message For Parents

Dear parents and future parents,
  Why do you treat the exams as some holy tradition in our, the children's lives? You react very negatively towards our borderline passes, fails, D's, C's, and even B's for some parents. Did you know that we can get mentally and physically strained because you keep on pushing us to our limits because of ridiculous reasons like family honor, bragging rights etc. However, before we all become old and wrinkly, I would like to hand out some advice to future couples and current parents alike.

  Exams are a good way to evaluate a student's proficiency in a specific subject don't get me wrong. Problems arise though when you expect way too much of the student, and relying heaving on stereotypes like," Oh because you're in the first class you MUST get straight A's,' as this causes the student to feel discouraged and unmotivated when they will ultimately realize that their parents' expectations doesn't not always reflect on your own skill in that subject. This causes the student to frown upon their studies and lose interest in school life. This is most apparent in high school life, when our rebellious years begin.

   Furthermore, personally, I think that parents should not constantly spout nonsense about their children. The whole purpose of parents is to show love to the children, a.k.a the future generation, but when you keep bashing us using direct or indirect measures, you're spreading negativity throughout the whole family. This causes many members to be hurt psychologically and it can cause erratic behavior in the child. Many people know the phrase," Like father, like son.", but not many parents actually become proper examples for the children, a lot of them actually pretend that they are.So, when the children swing to the "wrong" side, children get condemned for it.

  To end this, dear parents, try to avoid the love life of your children if possible. I can understand why you would try to stop your child from dating at a young age, because of the obvious risks. However, it is a human right to express one's feeling in life, and you wouldn't like it if somebody stopped you from meeting your spouse right? So how can you reserve your children's right to express their own love in their respective ways. So long as they are taught appropriately in their morals and faith, they will be able to resist the temptation to...... do the things that you don't want them to do. Also if you were planning to use the phrase," Absence makes the heart grow fonder," it's not true in the slightest.

  To summarize,  don't be a busybody and get into your child's life. I say this as a considerate child, longing for my rights to be discovered, and not to get poured in the stereotypes that have been labeled onto my name like glue. Parents please. I just want the best for both parties so let's work together to make the world a better place

Your's truly,

Ryan Isaac

The Week Before The March Holidays

  This week just seems to be the week I get my rage on, as literally every single day has found a way to piss me off and make me write so much shit on this. If you intend to read these things, you're discretion is advised

School Expectations

  I'm here today pissed off the expectations that we as Angsana-nians have to face. I don't know from whence the norm came that Angsana was the "best" class in our school but..... GUYS. YOU. NEED. TO. CHILL. OUT. Seriously, everyone thinks of us as the "best","smartest", and any number of adjectives to describe us a superior group of people. Realistically though, there are many other people that deserve this praise more than us.

  An example of these expectations is the ridiculous range of exams that we are expected to get. To grossly simplify, we are expected to score an A at the minimum whereas say the "last" class is expected to get a D or a C, despite all of us being humans on earth. This expectation has forced us, the Angsana-nians to work ourselves to the limits, only to be discouraged because we are unable to meet these expectations, thus we discourage ourselves to the point of morphing our own personality and vice versa,

  We are also expected to hand in all our homework on time whereas there is usually more leeway for the "last" few classes. Following up on my previous point, in the pursuit of meeting our expectations, we are constantly bombarded with heaps of homework, thus we are unable to study or relax at all because we are constantly buried under the stress of deadlines. In the end, we are forced to burn the midnight oil just to catch up on the studies that we are slow on, and with the endless amount of tuitions that our parents put us under to "remedy" our lackluster results, end up putting us through a whole new world of pain.

  Lastly, we're forced to cope with the teachers' impression of the "best" class. Teachers have the most ridiculous expectations when it comes to class ranking in schools. Honestly, would be motivated teaching the "best" of the "best" or teaching the "worst"? This causes the teachers of the "better" classes to  expect too much of the students there, and expect less of the "worse" classes. This indirectly causes the teacher to teach faster in the "better" classes and expecting the class to follow along even if it is very difficult to do so.

  Conclusively, teachers. PLEASE. Put away your expectations for our class, as we're just as human as any of the "worse" classes. Also please lighten the load you put on us as not all of us can cope with the homework, co-curriculum, and tuition that you expect us to be able to cope with. Thank you in advance.
                                                                                                                        From your dearest student,
                                                                                                                               Ryan Isaac