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Ishak Johari. 18 this year. 19 next year. 20 two years after. 21 three years.. Ah,you get the point.
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Wednesday, 31 March 2010
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Before I begin,I would like to say that I'm probably going to ruffle some feathers with this article.I confess myself already used to it,and so,I will proceed with this article.Last night I had a talk with my sister,cousins and some friends,all students of Madrasah Al-Irsyad.I am a former student myself.Being a student,I am never free from the dangers of breaking a rule.In fact,during my ten years with my beloved school I remember breaking at least three rules each year.That totals up to 30 in all.I am never proud of it,but recently,I nearly was.
Some of you will have questions in your mind now.Allow me to settle you.I am nearly proud of my record now,because Irsyad students nowadays break more rules in 4 months than I did in ten years.Scoff if you want,but this is not really far from the truth.This gives you the impression that Irsyad students are bad,doesn't it?
They are not,I assure you.They are not.The real picture is,and I am not exaggerating,absolutely terrifying.Irsyad is arguably the first choice madrasah education right now.The society now look up to us as leaders in Progress.We are well-known fighters.
Sadly though,there is one area where we fought too much.Pardon me,but it seems right now the school is desperately scrambling for perfection in terms of discipline.In just two years,we have introduced technology,isolation and goverment-esque systems into our discipline.
While these things may have worked,I am more concerned with another system that is slowly creeping into the pure doors of my beloved school.I am not sure what to call it,but I can liken it to something.
When Communism was all over China,a group of leaders led by Mao Zhedong tried many ways to push China forward.Too many ways.Some of them were actually quite successful,albeit to a small extent,but were never pursued further,because these men were too afraid of future failure.
That is what I see in Irsyad now.In our effort to have top-notch discpline,we have introduced too many rules and even far too many methods of executing them.Even worser,some of the students and teachers are not even aware when a new rule is put up.To simplify matters,I think it would be safe to render my rul handbook which I got just 2 years ago completely useless.Most of the rules in there have either changed,or have become completely non-existent.
This sudden surge of new or changed rules have caused students to break even more of them.And why not?The more rules you make,the more chances of it being broken.These students are also under pressure by the harder syllabuses of education,and let me pose these questions.Do we really need to pressure them more by forcing these absurd pieces of crap (pardon my language) on them?What are you (the discipline board) trying to do?Are you really inviting them to hate you more than they already do?
(To students of Irsyad,let's be fair,we don't really love the word 'discipline",do we?)
In the long term,if this goes on,I assure you,we wil actually be teaching kids that hey,it's okay to make rules and laws without reviewing them,without asking for public opinion,without trials,without sanity.These JMS kids will grow up to be people even more frightening than terrorists.I assure you.
Because these are kids who we hope to lead us in the future.
Sanity.Organisation.Democracy.Bring those into our school.A normal goverment school can hold some sort of memorandum and debate for new rules it makes,why can't we?Or are we really any different from them?
Like I said,some people will call me crazy for this.Some will throw eggs.Some will want to spit in my face.It doesn't matter,for I have spoken and already at peace.I have done my part.My part to strive towards an Irsyad that we can all love,and look up to.
No matter how far I go,I will always love Madrasah Al-Irsyad
@ 3:26 pm