Today morning, most of us in the class complained about one thing. The book that we are asked to buy. Well, in fact, we are being ordered to buy it. That exercise books cost us RM16. Since our teacher said that it is mandatory for all of us to buy it, and she is going to use it during the lesson, so we can't object it. We asked the teacher what kind of book would that be, she say nothing. Throughout the process we are not shown the sample of the book, or being told about the content of the book.
Yesterday, finally I've got my hand on the book. There are two of it, one is with a green cover, another one is with yellow cover. I was quite satisfied with the quality of the paper that they use. Total number of pages of both of the books are 81 pages. Well, I was quite shocked when I first saw the book. Because I was expecting more, eg. thicker book, book with colourful cover. Fine. Then I look at the content of the book. once I open up the book, I can feel that my blood is boiling, like a magma waiting to come out from the bottom of the volcano. Water in my bottle starts to evaporate as I touched it. The volcano is about to erupt.
I was so shock when the content of the book turns out to be the questions of the past STPM exams, starting from the year 1998 until last year, 2008. How coincidentally, all of my classmates, including me, already have a copy of past year questions from the year of 1987 until 2008, which only costs us not more than Rm6.50. We pay RM6++, we have questions of 21 years. Now, we pay RM16, and we have only questions of 10 years, more over, we already have those questions. How ridiculous it is!!! See the differences?
So, we complained to the teacher. Previously I still think that she is a good teacher, not good in teaching, but at least she has the passion. Now, she had spoils her own image, she is nothing but just merely a BITCH to me! As we expected, she is evading from the questions that we asked her. She told us not to be so calculative, it is just RM16 only. For God sake! I can't believe that these words can come out from her mouth, I really can't believe in what I heard. You are able to earn money yourself, you can spend the money in whatever way that you like, I don't care. But please don't forget, we are student, we are unemployed, we still have to rely on our parents. The money are from our parents, and where do our parents got the money? From their hard work. These money are hard earned money, and we are not going to spend it on rubbish! I couldn't imagine that you would say such word.
During the argument, she is trying to escape from the questions. Very obvious, she refused to be impossible of what she had done. She has no idea of how to give us an explanation which can cool us down, so she kept on changing topic. But, we kept on sticking to the topic. While the argument is still hot, I threw her a question. "Have you seen this book before? Before you asked us to buy it?" Guess what is her answer. She said "No." I was like "WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Then I continued. "Then don't you think that it is risky to ask the students to buy something which you had never seen or use before?" Then she bla bla bla, saying what even if she knew that the book is about past year questions, she will ask the students to buy it too. Then, the class burst into dicussion again. Apparently everyone is not satisfied with her already, including me myself. She also added that the word "risky" is innapropriate and rude to teacher. Again, that word came to my mind. WTF! You are saying that I am rude? Hello? Do you know what you are talking? You are asking your student spend the money on buying something which you never seen it or use it before. And you said all of us MUST buy the books. You are using the students as experiments! You are treating us like a white mice in the laboratory whom is waiting for dissection. Now, the trouble emerged, and yet you can't provide us an proper explanation, who is rude here? You are not respecting us and I am not going to respect you also. You don't deserve it!
This situation, again, has showed me that student rights are totally discriminated in this school. Obviously it is your fault, and now it has became our fault. Teacher has the say on everything, while we, as students, have to follow what ever shit they said.
I don't mind now if the book can't be returned and the money can't be refund. But, what I am truly unhappy about is the teacher's attitude. If you are going to ask your student to buy something, please do some research before it. It is very immoral, you know?
Between, the teacher also said that if we have any unsatisfaction, you may bring it on to the school principal. I know the school very well. If you insists on fighting for student rights, the teachers might sees you as school version Osama. There is no students' rights in the school. Even a black can be said as white, if they want to.
So dark the con of my school...
