Working With The Disabled
I was sitting in my English class, bored out of my mind, when a woman walked into the classroom. She was wearing a crumpled dress and had a poorly groomed mop of brown hair. But before I could ask her about where she got the dress from, she started talking about how she couldn’t read anymore because her eye sight was so poor and that this morning she had missed her bus. At first, I thought it was all just part of an act. But as time went on, it became clear that this woman really needed help getting around our city without being able to see properly. For the rest of the hour I tried to help her navigate the city, but it was difficult to get her to listen to me. Eventually, it got so bad that she was yelling at me and pushing me out of her way. It’s embarrassing to say, but I wish I had a better solution for helping people like that woman. It’s clear that in a civilised society, we need solutions for helping those who need it most.
There are many social problems in Singapore today and there is no denying that we need help with most of those problems. But there are also those problems which aren’t as severe or urgent as the others. And I think that it would be unfair for us to force ourselves to work on such problems. After all, we don’t want to make other people unhappy.
There is no denying that our education system is in need of reform. The PAP government says that they want a better education system, but what they really mean is the same as the old one: a system that produces obedient and quiet children who are unable to think for themselves and who have a submissive attitude towards authority all trained in a certain mindset from an early age. So, if we do want our children to succeed in life, we need to get them out of school and taught how to think for themselves outside the traditional classroom setting.
There are many disadvantages of working with the disabled. Firstly, you have to work hard to keep up with their pace of learning especially if you are new to the job. Secondly, it is hard for them to stay focused whenever they are tired or hungry or sick because the people who work with them will get easily distracted by things like their appearance, their mannerisms and their reactions. Thirdly, they don’t like being treated rudely and because of this, they sometimes become stubborn and angry towards you but all these things add up together can make your workplace very unproductive.
However, there are also advantages in working with physically challenged people. They are easier to understand and you can see why they are the way they are because all of their emotions are on the surface. They are extremely reliable and honest with you and some of them have very good memories especially for people’s names.
I think that working with disabled people is more stressful than it’s rewarding. But if you ask me what I would do if I were given a choice, I would go ahead and work with those people because there is no doubt in my mind that we need more positive role models in this country. And those people have a lot of experience to teach us about life.
There are many ways to learn from the disabled. They have such an optimistic outlook on life and they don’t let anything hold them back in life. And if working with them is what it takes for us to change our attitude towards ourselves and the world around us, then I believe that it is worth it. After all, there is no harm in trying new things once in a while, right?
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Compulsory school education starts at the age of 6 and lasts for 11 years. The government uses the PSLE to rank and classify students as to which secondary schools they will be accepted into. There are 3 types of secondary schools: the Normal stream; the Academic stream; and the Technical stream. The majority of Singaporean students attend a Specialised Independent school (SIS), which focuses on a specific field such as Arts, Sports or Music.
The Ministry of Education encourages young people in Singapore to choose their courses from a wide variety of subjects in order to develop well-rounded personalities. Education is free, and children are expected to attend school regularly. The government subsidises the public education system, but parents must pay for their children's textbooks and transportation expenses.
Elementary schools in Singapore are known as Primary schools, with Secondary schools being called Junior colleges and middle-level colleges. Primary education lasts six years, with no distinction made between a First Primary grade and a Fifth Primary grade. The curriculum begins at the stage of learning basic English literacy skills before expanding to include lessons in Maths (from simple addition to solving complex algebraic equations), Science (from understanding the basic structure of plants and animals to studying principles of physics) and Social Studies (from learning about family relationships to exploring Economics). The primary school years are designed to be enjoyable, with students having a choice of over 20 different co-curricular activities and sporting events.
At the end of Primary 6, students take their Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). Following the PSLE, students enter Seconadary 1 where they are streamed into either the Normal (Academic) or the Normal (Technical) classes. Normal (Academic) students take English Language, Mathematics and Science subjects. Normal(Technical) students are typically specialised in areas like Woodwork/Workshop or Metalwork/Electricity/Mechanism from year 2 and have little flexibility in changing their subjects as they will not do well in mainstream classes.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, the students of Singapore are well-trained and indoctrinated in their education systems. Thus, their values are identical to the government's; and because they support the government's practices, there is no opposition and therefore no need for censorship. The system perpetuates itself like that of a wheel or an arrow.
Minorities in Singapore enjoy most of the same civil rights as citizens, but are subject to various forms of official discrimination on grounds such as religion and ethnicity.
Singaporean Indians have been granted much fewer scholarships than ethnic Chinese inhabitants since independence from Malaysia in 1965. Malay-Muslims face official discrimination under several policies, including limits on vote-winning rights in certain electoral districts.