Veto JCs

I just had a conversation with my bf and was ranting about how useless JCs are. Present thinking is, I'm not going to let my child enter JC. At least, I'll be throwing him or her a lot of alternative choices, but if he or she still chooses JC in the end, then I'll surrender.

(I hope I earn a lot of money in the future...)

Anyway, all this came about because of my recent experiences with schools. I had teachers and students contacting me for lots of things. They are all with good intentions, but boy, it seems that they have a serious lack of plans for most stuff. And you won't believe the way some of them tries to mumble their way through. And most of my bad experiences come from JCs. Where have all the good teachers gone?!

I mean, if you've gotten to the JC level, I would at least have expencted some kind of standard in the way you talk, think and even carry out your work. But these guys (including the teachers) dunno half of what they are thinking about and just come to you saying they want to help, it's for their school project. Seriously, I'm glad you want to help, but I've got a mountain of duties before I start helping you think what the heck you can do to help. Aren't YOU supposed to be the one earning points for your project and for creative thinking / work? Why is that being thrown to me in the end?! I seriously think there's something wrong with the education system.

Then, I actively interacted with a couple of JCs and god forbid, the staff are THAT level of standard, so I can totally understand how come the students are not developing well nowadays. I called this JC's main line and it says to press a nunber to speak to someone for more information. I was asking and asking, but she made me doubt if she was actually a qualified staff in the school in the end. She knew nothing about what's going on the school, who's in charge of what, who I can speak to etc. Why the hell did they put her on the info line then?!

Anyway, after this whole parade, I totally lost confidence in JCs. (Plus another few more incidents I had with JC students... god, a JC student's proposal looking like a kid's work next to a secondary school student's, can you imagine?) So my bf was saying, maybe I can put my kid in United World College.

Not a bad idea. I just wish my child would be someone creative, and not be tied down by all the results and everything. I wish that she or he will become a person respected because of personality and mature thinking, not papers. I wish he or she will not be 'dumbified' by lousy teachers and staff who accidentally infiltrated into the education system.

(Yes, I better earn more money...)