Friday, October 27, 2006
Quotes from Mrs Tay, Vice-Principal of AJC
I don't read blogs. I find it a waste of time.
-In a tea-session between me and her.
...your negative feedback on the [non-secular sexuality talk] vendor has arouse the press
interest on the college's programme. The public will still focus on the
college and question the college why was this vendor chosen as if we are
not able to make a good decision and have done something wrong to our
students (because you all don't benefit from the programme)...it has aroused so much publicity on the presss with the public giving their comments and questioning the college. It was also mentioned by the MOE officials during meetings etc. It has created quite a negative impact on the college and the school leaders...
We can focus our energy and spend time on more meaningful things than to answer to the press.*
-In an email exchange between me and her
*Should focus energy on more meaningful things instead of talking to the press? Lets look at this CNA article before the Sexuality Talk thing blew over:
Anderson Junior College for example is holding four 4-hour sexuality education talks this year. Students there will spend 1 to 2 hours discussing the topic with their teachers in class and there'll also be a week-long sexuality education exhibition.
Woo Soo Min, Vice Principal, Anderson Junior College, said: "It is not just about sexuality, it is touching on the values of the students, how they perceive themselves. We feel this topic should be broached with greater depth, that's why we feel that we would like to spend more time on it."
AJC told the press that it was about "touching on the values of the students, how they perceive themselves." Now something went wrong and AJC don't want to answer the press, and instead want to hide away and " focus our energy and spend time on more meaningful things"?
And the pest problem in AJC?
Her reply after I informed her about rats in AJC:
Lastly, thanks for your alert to the rats, that is precisely why the OM has
to stop students eating in the container blocks. Now you can see how a
small inconsiderate group can cause a lot of inconvenience to the community
at large even thought the college is putting in so much manpower to do the
cleaning. Just to let you know, we have already taken action a few days
ago and I think this is the right way to approach our family problem, to
alert us and to take timely action rather than to complaint to the
outsiders
2 or 3 email exchanges later:
the pest control is always in place so my point is these are on going processes and it is not just a sudden improvement.
And on a final note,
You are our students so of course we will not sue you to court for
damanging the reputation of the college and staff. Please read the news
paper on what has happened to Dr Chee** and you should learn to be responsible and not to take things for granted.
**I see Dr Chee championing for freedom and democracy. Is that wrong?
A Vice-Principal is a role model students should respect, look up to, and learn from.
Isn't it?
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at this crucial moment, you still think of that VP Tay.
btw, i do not know that person called vp tay. i only know of people who had done something. p leong deserves more mention than her.
btw, i do not know that person called vp tay. i only know of people who had done something. p leong deserves more mention than her.
# posted by 
: 10/28/2006 6:22 PM
: 10/28/2006 6:22 PM
As an ex-AJCian I find it no surprise that after so many years later, Mrs Tay is still of the same character. She is a role model in a sense - a person I'll never want to be.
I think I'm in the mood to make an ordered list of how she's really like back then:
1. Power-hungry: Every action, every word, and everything that she advocates has only one purpose - to advance faster in her career. Even to the point of double standards of saying one thing to the students and saying a different thing when the Principle is around.
2. Elitist: She shuns students who don't score straight As, claiming that they're not good enough to be considered for 'S' papers. During my time it's a well-known thing that most AJ students don't have what it takes to think beyond the 10-year series questions, the team they sent to the HP Tech Quiz (all straight As students) was an utter embarrassment on national TV. The GP standard was horrible as well, because there wasn't any 10-year series to 'practice' for it.
3. Adaptive: In the negative sense, as illustrated partially in point 1. She'll twist her words as and when necessary and when required (basically when she needs to advance her career or cover her ass - mostly the latter).
Because of her, my JC is the only alma mater I'm ashamed of up to this day. I would generalize that everyone I know in AJC are either like her (birds of a same feather flock together) or hate her (like myself). But the irony is that it's people like her who still manage to hold her position as VP, getting taxpayers' money, and still claim to be moulding the future of our nation - to garbage, no less.
Strong words I'm saying here, no doubt about it - a testament to the type of person she was like, and still is, back then and now.
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I think I'm in the mood to make an ordered list of how she's really like back then:
1. Power-hungry: Every action, every word, and everything that she advocates has only one purpose - to advance faster in her career. Even to the point of double standards of saying one thing to the students and saying a different thing when the Principle is around.
2. Elitist: She shuns students who don't score straight As, claiming that they're not good enough to be considered for 'S' papers. During my time it's a well-known thing that most AJ students don't have what it takes to think beyond the 10-year series questions, the team they sent to the HP Tech Quiz (all straight As students) was an utter embarrassment on national TV. The GP standard was horrible as well, because there wasn't any 10-year series to 'practice' for it.
3. Adaptive: In the negative sense, as illustrated partially in point 1. She'll twist her words as and when necessary and when required (basically when she needs to advance her career or cover her ass - mostly the latter).
Because of her, my JC is the only alma mater I'm ashamed of up to this day. I would generalize that everyone I know in AJC are either like her (birds of a same feather flock together) or hate her (like myself). But the irony is that it's people like her who still manage to hold her position as VP, getting taxpayers' money, and still claim to be moulding the future of our nation - to garbage, no less.
Strong words I'm saying here, no doubt about it - a testament to the type of person she was like, and still is, back then and now.
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