Also saw the students. The school seems very lively but the students seem to know their place and the disciplinary system is very well-run. They have a rather brilliant method of ensuring classes with disciplinary problems do not get out of hand. Any class with such problems will be required to submit a class diary everyday in which all the teachers have to sign. If one teacher signs a “not ok”, the class stays back. Being rational human beings, it is unlikely that the students will flirt with their after-school freedom.
I was soon to find out how naive those words were. One of the classes that I was assigned to, a Sec 2 class, had a discipline diary, which was in addition to the class diary.
Every day after school, they were to fall in at the quadrangle and the discipline master would go through their discipline diary and then award consequences.
It was hard to see how the diary was a deterrence because the kids became immune and did whatever the hell they wanted. I was once so frustrated with them that I threw a stack of foolscap paper at the whiteboard…