no respect for students
I sent this in a email to Maelie who has just left school. her explaination- This just may be the best thing I have ever done. Those of you at school may have noticed that I am no longer there. Well, get used to it! I never plan on being there again! Yes, I have broken the chains and fled. This has been a long time coming. In truth, the only thing keeping me at school was house music, which made another one my dreams come true (I got to be Riff Raff). Wilson (my house) won by zee way, which makes it all the more worth while. However, now house music has gone and left a great void in my life at St Mary's, I have decided to follow suit and get the hell out of there. It's not that I am struggling with the work preasures of year 13, or anything like that. I just can't stand being there locked up with some of the most awful people I hope I ever meet. Anything that drives you to te edge of sanity, can't be good foryou. I have learnt all I want to learn this year, it just won't appear on my record of learning. This leaving school thing won't affect my future in amy huge way. I still plan to go to university, just not next year. Probably in a couple of years. This is what I want and I am damn happy with my decission!
This was my reply and a tidy little example of exactly why maelie left.
Thanks heaps.
Sorry, I just went back and actually read that properly. I hate you so much for leaving. Damn. DAMN! Exhibit Q today: Suz, Cindy and I got told that we were doing a chapel service this morning. SO we kinda went...oooohhhkay. Cindy organised a prayer and a song and a reading, and i organised a polite little ramble with katy about respecting other people's religious beliefs.
What happened is that Cindy said her prayer, Katy and I got up and started talking for about 2 minutes before Mrs Rawston got up, made us stop and let everyone go.
Her only explaination for doing this was that we weren't prepared enough.
We told her that yes, we weren't prepared. That is because we were told about it this morning, and we were just trying our best.
She told us that it was an insult.
An insult to what she didn't specify, then went on to say another seventeen times that we weren't prepared enougn and we weren't lsitening to her point of view which was that we were'nt prepared enough..
question: how many times have you heard her say 'I'm not prepared' and then go on to stutter her way through a chapel service?
I think the only reason she made us stop is because I openly said I wasn't a christian and didn't beleive in god. I alos openly said- several times- that I greatly respect the christian religion and its morals.
After she stopped us, and after she told us another 6 times that we weren't listening to her and that we weren't accepting her point of view which was that we weren't prepared enough, she went on to say how she wasn't trying to stop us from saying anything.
This is about the bit where I started yelling at her. I couldn't help it, i really couldn't. I told her that we we weren't saying anything offensive (true), we weren't trying to address our speech to her, to adults, to whoever- instead we were addressing it to the main part of the school, the ones who come here to learn, funnily enough the students. I explained that we were talking to them about how everyone has a different point of view, everyone has different ideas- this backed up by Cindy (strong, open christian beliefs), Myself (belief that we make our own lives what they are), Suz (quiet christian) and Katy (believes that something is out there and that it created us- but it isn't God) who all have different religious views. We told the student body what our views were and then told them that is awesome to think whatever they want to think.
Then she stood up, interrupting our not-in-any-way-offensive speech and told the school that chapel was over and that they would have a long interval.
Can you see why I cried? She wouldn't listen. She never does. She stands there and tells us how we are such terrible people for not listening to her point of view which was that we weren't prepared (WHICH WE HAD ADMITTED TO AND APOLOGISED FOR MANY MANY TIMES), then doesn't listen at all when we explain that all we were trying to do is teach the students to respect one another.
Thats a great way to get that message across- when the Principal can't respect the students.
She went on to say how she doesn't like to see me upset and isn't trying to upset me. All I could do was laugh. I said 'it really doesn't seem like that, I'm sorry, but I can't sit here and be told that I am not allowed my own point of veiw', to which she replied 'We're not trying to make everyone have the same point of view. We don't want to make everyone the same. We encourage people to have different views.' A statement which is hardly backed up by her actions. Note: this is just one of many many occurances.
I am jealous you got to leave. It seems the cheats way out...to everyone else. When you have to put up with that every single day, i can't blame you at all.
look after yourself.
This was my reply and a tidy little example of exactly why maelie left.
Thanks heaps.
Sorry, I just went back and actually read that properly. I hate you so much for leaving. Damn. DAMN! Exhibit Q today: Suz, Cindy and I got told that we were doing a chapel service this morning. SO we kinda went...oooohhhkay. Cindy organised a prayer and a song and a reading, and i organised a polite little ramble with katy about respecting other people's religious beliefs.
What happened is that Cindy said her prayer, Katy and I got up and started talking for about 2 minutes before Mrs Rawston got up, made us stop and let everyone go.
Her only explaination for doing this was that we weren't prepared enough.
We told her that yes, we weren't prepared. That is because we were told about it this morning, and we were just trying our best.
She told us that it was an insult.
An insult to what she didn't specify, then went on to say another seventeen times that we weren't prepared enougn and we weren't lsitening to her point of view which was that we were'nt prepared enough..
question: how many times have you heard her say 'I'm not prepared' and then go on to stutter her way through a chapel service?
I think the only reason she made us stop is because I openly said I wasn't a christian and didn't beleive in god. I alos openly said- several times- that I greatly respect the christian religion and its morals.
After she stopped us, and after she told us another 6 times that we weren't listening to her and that we weren't accepting her point of view which was that we weren't prepared enough, she went on to say how she wasn't trying to stop us from saying anything.
This is about the bit where I started yelling at her. I couldn't help it, i really couldn't. I told her that we we weren't saying anything offensive (true), we weren't trying to address our speech to her, to adults, to whoever- instead we were addressing it to the main part of the school, the ones who come here to learn, funnily enough the students. I explained that we were talking to them about how everyone has a different point of view, everyone has different ideas- this backed up by Cindy (strong, open christian beliefs), Myself (belief that we make our own lives what they are), Suz (quiet christian) and Katy (believes that something is out there and that it created us- but it isn't God) who all have different religious views. We told the student body what our views were and then told them that is awesome to think whatever they want to think.
Then she stood up, interrupting our not-in-any-way-offensive speech and told the school that chapel was over and that they would have a long interval.
Can you see why I cried? She wouldn't listen. She never does. She stands there and tells us how we are such terrible people for not listening to her point of view which was that we weren't prepared (WHICH WE HAD ADMITTED TO AND APOLOGISED FOR MANY MANY TIMES), then doesn't listen at all when we explain that all we were trying to do is teach the students to respect one another.
Thats a great way to get that message across- when the Principal can't respect the students.
She went on to say how she doesn't like to see me upset and isn't trying to upset me. All I could do was laugh. I said 'it really doesn't seem like that, I'm sorry, but I can't sit here and be told that I am not allowed my own point of veiw', to which she replied 'We're not trying to make everyone have the same point of view. We don't want to make everyone the same. We encourage people to have different views.' A statement which is hardly backed up by her actions. Note: this is just one of many many occurances.
I am jealous you got to leave. It seems the cheats way out...to everyone else. When you have to put up with that every single day, i can't blame you at all.
look after yourself.