A Fuhua Secondary School student is very unhappy about her school grooming exercise, and how students are affected by what they see is an act of humiliation.
“I am upset that recently during morning assembly the school checked the girls, and I thought offenders would be giving a warning, and get a chance to get their hair cut after school. However it was not so.
The offenders were sent to the principal’s office and their fringes were cut short. These students came out crying as they looked ugly.
I think this was a public act of humiliation. Everyone wants to look good but with this hairstyle, if you were them you won’t step out of the house to face other people. And these students will care more about how their hair looks now and not concentrate on their studies. I think the principal just made things worse.
My friend’s two friends cried for almost two hours and couldn’t even concentrate in class and in their CCA.
What’s the point of making us feel so humiliated we can’t concentrate on our studies? I thought education should come first. Furthermore, the principal should at least give the offenders a chance before doing this; the students can pin up or cut their hair themselves. I feel that the principal is in the wrong to just cut away the students’ hair like that without caring about how they feel and never even give them chances to go cut their hair after school or to pin them up.
Also, the principal scolds students who wear jackets in school when it’s cold. They feel we wear the jacket as a fashion statement and said that it’s not part of the school’s attire and we shouldn’t be wearing them even if it’s cold or windy. We’re told to report to the office if we are really sick and they will call our parents, and then allow us to wear our jackets. But there isn’t a jacket designed for us to wear. Should we all go sew the school logo on our jackets before we are allowed to wear them?
The principal actually wants students who wear coloured bras to remove them and get their parents to bring white bras for them to change into, but what happens if both parents are working? Should the girl go walking around the school without a bra? Worse, this is a co-ed school and it’s humiliation to the girls. The principal doesn’t care about how we really feel.
Toilet lights are also switched off to save electricity bills and we can hardly see in the afternoons. It is almost pitch-black on rainy days. The only time when the toilet lights are switched on again is when important guests visit, which I think is really unfair to us students. The school would rather spend money building a statue and it look nothing more that a man with two thumbs up and place it among some bushes. I think it’s a waste of money and the school actually saves money from electricity bills to build that statue which is of no use at all. They should rather go spend the money helping poor and needy students.
I really hope the school will concentrate more on our education than on grooming and making us feel so humiliated.â€
SGD 10,000+ was spent on a statue, which served no purpose, and only for display to the public! (But it was hidden somewhere in the bushes and covered by trees, that some students doesn’t even know it existed.
Seems like AJC isn’t the one with overly outrageous and conservative principals.
1) Cut students’ hair? Wow! What problem can this action solve? Increase hatred towards the school and cause students to be unable to concentrate on their lessons in school?
2) Jacket also cannot wear? WTF!
3) Remove bra and walk around without one in a Co-Ed school? Damn, I should have gone to Fuhua Sec as a student, or maybe apply for a position as a relief teacher there now. Eye candies everywhere.
4) Not turning on toilet lights to save electricity? What a smart assed act. Electricity used by the Air-Cons in the staff rooms and Principals office makes the amount of electricity used by toilet lights pale in comparison. How about giving the students some light, and off your staff air-con at times of the day when it is not hot?
5) SGD10000 statue to improve your sheep clothing?
I raise a question. Who is the real brat? A school management that is insensitive, looks after their own asses and reputation, or a regular cold, braless and jacketless girl in a secondary school?
The principal replied to Stomp.
“Grace period and extensions are always given,” responded Mr Phor Hoay Guan, Vice Principal, Fuhua Secondary School after STOMP contacted the school following a student’s email to us.
Mr Phor explained that students who “fall short of expectations” are monitored by teachers to ensure they do comply with rules.
This is the email Fuhua Secondary sent to STOMP.
“In Fuhua Secondary, discipline and pastoral care form the foundation for our approach towards a holistic education for our pupils. The school nurtures and encourages each pupil to develop a sense of discipline. One component of discipline is the observance of school rules.”
The students who “fall short of expectations”, are monitored and advised by teachers.
Should they fail to comply with rules they are warned, and sterner disciplinary action taken against the offenders.
The school also explains the reason for switching off toilet lights, that these “are efforts towards energy-saving”, and that this message was conveyed to staff and students when the practice was implemented in 2005.
The lights, the school clarifies, are switched on during rainy days or when the sky is dark.
1) I don’t care about grace periods or whatever. Nobody mentioned it. This isn’t the issue. The issue is with the actions taken by the school.
2) No mention of going braless and jacketless?
3) Oh please, offing toilet lights to save electricity? More for showing off and accountability to MOE, claiming that Fuhua “made an attempt to save electricity!”
And I bet the principal is desperately looking for the person who wrote in to STOMP, and award her with the relevant demerit points, instead of reviewing their procedures to solve the problem.
I am thinking of sending in an email to Fuhua. Will write one after I have gone for my long overdue haircut.
Update: I sent in an email to Fu Hua Secondary School. Read it here.
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As a liberal AJCian I would encourage you to write an email to protest. Such haircut checks,attire ‘infringements’ and other unspeakable acts are a blatant attempt by conservative elements to ‘justify’ their conservatism instead of moving with the times.
Most of what they think apply in the 1980s in school where people doesn’t have a voice and even freedon of expression was barely mentioned as it is taboo to the teachers’ desire to keep discipline.Not that we’re moving with the times,it’s utterly appalling that
some teachers still stick to their archaic ways
In fact just recently AJC’s vice-principle has started doing haircut and attire checks again. Schools that doesn’t trust their students to follow the rules they enshrine and even do atrocities to justify the ‘lie’ that ‘we trust the students’ should be taken to task
they aren’t all wrong is what i’d say. yes they should be more sensitive to the needs of the students, and focus on education is obviously a must, but the fact remains that it is highly likely that these students who committed these faults have been disrespectful to the teachers, to say the least. i wouldn’t jump into the fray without fully understanding the situation. conservation of electricity in the schools can be interpreted in many ways, and whichever the reason, it is still for a good cause. teaching students to turn of the lights and fans and whatever after vacating the classroom or toilets isn’t such a bad practice. sporting long haircuts isn’t good for the school image either. while we don’t know their standards, we have to first understand the reasons behind what they do. did they reply your email?