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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Rabbit Princess's assigned responsibilities

Nic takes home assignments to colour on an almost daily basis. First, there was the Lifeskills worksheet, then English and now a Calendar pullout for her class notice board. So despite her injured elbow (and she claims it makes writing difficult due to the position of the bruises), she finished colouring her month of June with fervour, telling me very proudly how she and a few other classmates were hand-picked by their form teacher for this very 'Special exclusive task'. She also proudly proclaimed that due to her 'good girl' behaviour, she's been chosen to be the Social Studies leader for her group (named Integrity). What does being a leader mean? It means that she is responsible for collecting the Social Studies workbook after each lesson and collate them for the teacher. Child labour! Ha ha ha...

Sometimes I wonder how long this phase will last before she starts to question the authority of the teacher instead of worshipping the ground he/she steps on. Right now, the teacher is the equivalent of a god-like figure to be obeyed at all costs. Perhaps it is also due to the nature of the child to want to be praised and be assigned roles to boost their self-esteem. Hence, whatever assignments she's been given, no matter how minute a task, she has to complete it.

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