Having been a student at Anderson Junior College, it is my opinion that the school administrations are more concerned about the results than providing a safe and conducive educational environment.
Here are some of my favourites, with photos, taken during my short stay there.
This water cooler was located outside the school hall, and was in this state throughout the entire period when the JC1s were having orientation in the hall. According to the OM, they cleaned out the water storage tank and algae accumlated there. Since orientation activities induce thirst and this water cooler was nearest to the hall where orientation was held, I suspected that more than 50% of the JC1s drank this before I noticed it and report it to AJC authority.
Immediately after I reported this incident, all filter covers on water coolers in AJC were immediately replaced with opaque ones so as to “prevent exposure to sunlight and prevent algae growth.”
This happened suddenly, and for the entire day it was hanging there. There was no sign to warn people to stay away from it, and AJC students, being slightly academically inclined and having nothing else in the brains, happily use the table under it to study without any fear.
This is the CORE escape route for most of the entire school’s population in the Fire Escape plan. The school had promised to fix this when I was there as a JC1 student. It was still there when I graduated.
Now a bunch of private candidates who were unluckily assigned to take the exams in Anderson Junior College were attacked by the main residents in the campus - a huge presence of poisonous insects. At least one of the candidates had to seek treatment at clinics.
When questioned, the Vice-Principal of AJC, said something along this line, “We spray insecticides once every 2 weeks. So I donno why this is happening!”
Here is an excerpt from a complain letter written to Today.
Bugs attackat exam centre
Private A-levels candidate had arms swollen with insect bites after a weekin junior college test centre
Letter from Peter Pius
I AM writing this letter as a concerned parent and as a very concerned citizen.
My daughter is sitting for her A-level examinations this year as a private candidate. She was assigned an exam centre at Anderson Junior College in Ang Mo Kio, and given a seat in a classroom on the ground floor of the building.
The exams started last Monday. Within the first two days, private candidates sitting for the examination were complaining of insect bites. They took insect repellent into the classroom with them. On Thursday, someone from the school came and sprayed some insecticide.
However, by the weekend, my daughter’s arms were so swollen with insect bites (picture) we had to rush her to the 24-hour clinic to seek treatment. I was close to tears upon seeing the condition of my daughter’s arms.
I want to ask the Ministry of Education what the basic requirements in the selection of exam centres are. Does the ministry send representatives to inspect exam centres?I am sure students are facing enough pressure coping with their exams. The least we could do is provide them a decent environment in which to give their best. We are a first-class nation. This should never have happened in Singapore. I hope the Ministry of Education will look into this and take proactive steps to address the issue.
And people, still remember the sexuality talk saga where AJC hired a bunch of religious guys who make students write down things like “I shall not masturbabe.” “IVF is bad.”? It first came under media attention due to yours truly’s blog.
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Fucked up school, no doubt.
oh my. you’re infamous. so you’re the one who’s so anti-AJ on the net.
Oh my!
What is so infamous or “anti-aj” about surfacing some skeleton in the school’s closet?
Do you mean that what the school is doing is correct?
After raising the issues with non-secular sexuality talks, schools are now vary of religious organisations claiming to provide secular sexuality talk. Wouldn’t that benefit students for generations to come?
Are my eyes playing tricks on me?
Bitten by poisonous insects??? Lol!
Always thought the students will get hurt by falling/fallen debris. Just look at the sch’s infrastructure. It explains alot.
I won’t say much about AJC, except that in my 2 years here it has deprived me of gaining much friends. Its population has a serious gender disbalance, resulting in feminism festering which I have been tolerating for the past years. There are many more faults…
no doubt ajc’s infrastructure is not as good compared to other JCs.
but nevertheless,ajc provides a conducive atmosphere for studying.
this explains why it produces better A levels results than acjc
My first impression of the school buildings is not very good too but i find the people there warm and friendly. There was certainly no ‘poisonous’ insects and the water cooler’s water is definitely safe to drink from. I have drank from it several times myself and feel just fine. I hope you would stop putting up such harsh one-sided comments about the school.
people up there just fuck off, apparently ’some pissed off student’ lacks the social skills needed to make friends. this site is stupid.
janjan:
Ajc result being “better” is because ajc has take in of better quality students (academically-wise) compared to ACJC.
However, the recent drop in standard resulting in ACJC having better result than AJC implied that AJC is in fact more effective at destroying quality students.
jus somebody: You are rebuking a newspaper report of the insects and photographic evidences of the water cooler without evidences. What you have there are one sided comments. What I have here are proofs.
AJC ROCKS!!!!!!!!!
Im going back to claim my results in a few weeks. What is highlighted here made me feel queasy=( Though i agree with you that the school facilities have seen better days/school adminstration should get up on their arse and do something about it, it isnt that bad of a school.As someone posted in his/her reply, the people there are actually quite nice and some of the teachers are quite friendly. Look forward to going backxD
Hi Wei Kiat,
i think i remember you being in my JC1 class for a few days. i dun remember you staying for more than 2 months.
no wonder you hate AJC so much. cos they din make u stay. You really should not bear petty grudges like this.
u moved on to a poly right? then how come you claimed u graduated from AJC? this is weird.
There is no record of any Chinese High (secondary) student going to poly in the year I went JC..
Are you sure you got the right person?
Btw, do you guys know that the MPH normally used for PE lessons used to be a gymnasium? After AJC become chui in this sports the equipment were moved upstairs and left to rot.
i jus gt in ajc bt i don find bad or wat… haiz. just tt its boring. other than tt its quite okay leh.
i’m an asean scholar studying in AJC in 08/09.
To everyone out there who has bad impression about AJC, you guys can continue with your complaints.
AJC is a very good school.
I don’t deny that AJC is lacking in infrastructure as compared to many other JCs.
Being a full government school, if not approved by MOE, the admin can’t lay an extra brick even if they had the cash to do so.
Besides. Singapore has very limited land. LOL
AJC teachers are the best i’ve ever seen in my entire life.
I dunno about other JCs but majority of our teachers are alumni who chose to come back.
And they get stolen away by so called better JCs.
To me, i feel that AJC’s policy is opportunities for students.
Which is where most of school funding goes to.
Besides, i have friends who got into AJ for PAE but couldn’t stay for JAE and went to XXJC.
He didn’t like it there.
Facility wise, AJC lost since XXJC is a bloody rich semi-government school.
But everything else was perfect to him. His closest friends are those in AJ.
Thinking about AJ’s size. Yeah its small.
But every corner you turn, you get to wave at a friend.
And you don’t have to climb 5 floors to get to a lesson or run 2.4km to get to lab or something.
Its really perfect.
Well if i continue, it will never end but seriously.
How good a school is to a person, depends on that person’s character.
If you’re a childish, spoilt loser, you’ll never stop complaining no matter where you go cos you’ll never stop digging.
I love being in AJ cos of the environment, the teachers, the friends, the location, and the attention we get from the school.
If the past was really that bad, now it isn’t.
I’m lucky i got posted here cos i seriously don wanna be in other JCs based on the stories i hear from the island-wide scholar network.
This reply, unlike the reason this thread existed, is not to mock, or be childish, or to belittle any JC. I’m just defending the name of my school. I know its a little farfetched cos there are so many out there who love to mock AJ, but at least the readers here can know how it feels like to come into a foreign country and study in a great JC even when education back home is almost equally good and fun. Non mihi solum.
“This happened suddenly, and for the entire day it was hanging there. There was no sign to warn people to stay away from it”
I would like to raise some questions regarding this statement: first, considering that it occurred “suddenly”, shouldn’t some response time be allowed for the school staff to fix it? Did you report it to the school admin upon discovering it? How long did it take for the college to correct the fault? Perhaps you could have put your time and effort to good use before heaping blame and criticism on the college. Blaming the college for the lack of awareness of the students is hardly a sound argument either.
“a huge presence of poisonous insects”
Just to point out, if there were such a “huge” presence, wouldn’t there be more letters and complaints issued to the press? Perhaps some A levels candidates from that year can shed some light on this?
“AJC hired a bunch of religious guys who make students write down things like “I shall not masturbabe.” ”
This statement would mislead readers to think that AJC intentionally hired these people to “make students write things like “I shall not masturbate”" I think this biased statement just shows that you are just out to condemn the college. Why is the blame focused solely on the college instead of the organisation that conducted the talk?
Just some questions for the rest to ponder upon before jumping on the “condemn AJ” bandwagon.
Fact: Anderson Junior College has old infrastructure
Opinion: Anderson Junior College is filled with retards who call themselves teachers and staff and whose brains are otherwise obsolete.
Voice of Reason: From what I have learnt from Social Studies in secondary school, one can judge a source as reliable or not by the words they use. For example, ‘a huge presence’ is a gross exaggeration and is supremely sensationalizing the issue. Plus ‘a bunch of religious guys’ seems too informal and derogatory to be even considered believable. Bunch is not a number. Religious guys? Do you mean clerics, pastors, ministers, priests, rabbis or what? There are billions of ‘religious guys’ on this planet.
Thus, I find this source hugely exaggerated and biased. It is not to be easily believed.