Wei Kiat's Blog

YOUR report gives the impression that GEP students are mentally unprepared for the curriculum and that students do not like being in the GEP.
(There are many kinds of people out there. Students are also people.)

Having just graduated from the GEP after three years, I beg to differ.
(There is no nid to beg. People are just different.)

I may not be the best student in my GEP centre, but I did not find the curriculum pressure-packed, and looking at the fun the students have, I doubt the others did either. Sure, we get our share of homework and projects, but nobody said life was a bed of roses.
(Well done you!)

The study noted that in Primary 6, we were "stereotyped and subjected to heckling and verbal abuse". Yes, we do get such things from mainstream Pri 6 students, but it's nothing we can't handle.
(Quite on the contrast, i personally respect GEP students! Well, most of them.)

You see, GEPers (as we call ourselves) are more mature than most mainstreamers, the result of being in the GEP. The mainstreamers think we are snobbish — when they stereotype us, they are being immature.
(This I do not feel to be true. You are only behaving mature because you felt you had to, since you are the top 1%, who is there to be more matured than anyone else other than yourself?)

When we prove ourselves able to handle the "bad press", we grow more mature.
(Wat toking u?)

Being in a specialised class lets us interact with people like us. I had to keep changing schools every year before I entered the GEP and I didn't have many good friends because I found my classmates to be immature.
(Social outcast)

But when I entered the GEP, I was impressed with my classmates and now we can't bear to part ways.
(The ship with all the social outcasts. Don't stick together ship sure sink.)

Unless someone is transferred out of the GEP, or changes schools, we have the same 52 or so classmates throughout the three years. This forces us to become good friends.
(How come 52? I thought small class?)

We were all mainstream students before the GEP. Most of us found it boring in mainstream classes, as we knew most of the curriculum and it was easy to get good grades. But when faced with someone at our own level, we step up our efforts to compete.
(I also find it easy to get good grades. I never get Band 2 in my primary sch life, And i also got expelled from TCHS and still score 9pts, while still enjoying my slacking.)

Sure, there are a few who can't cope, but they withdraw in the first or second year. My school saw only two withdrawals out of 52 people. At most, it is only in rare cases that "the club turns into a nightmare", as your report put it.
(There are indeed nice parents out there who care more about their child than their face.)

The GEP broadens our experience. Nobody minds if a girl mingles with a bunch of boys, or if she is interested in DotA, Final Fantasy VII or PS2 games. We accept each other.
(Thats nice and matured. Just like in JCs. I donno abt secondary cos i in TCHS guy sch one.)

Would we be able to do that in the mainstream, where everyone follows the trends or the person who is the "coolest", and everybody starts gossiping if anyone talks to someone of the opposite sex?
(Thats in the neigbourhood school, which i abit resent. Again, people are unique and i only resent some of them which shows particular traits. Other neigbourhood schoold students are plain nice. My gf is from a neigbourhood sch as well. =D)

Nobody except us, the GEPers, could know how much fun we have being in the GEP.
(I think you are trying to say that parents know nothing?)