Victoria Thy Sons Are We, And We Will Not Forget~~

The VS thingy... been quite a big news recently... stirred up alot of Old Victorians.... and personally... I am defintely against the co-ed thing.. went to sign the petition liao.... i heard about the news first from my senior... then later read in the newspaper in camp... was abit angry and sadden by this at first... especially with the Principal... Mr APC...

But since yesterday... i have been reading alot of the blog and comments posted by old Victorians... and i began to see the bigger and clearer picture....
Like they say... the principal is not the enemy... nor is the VAC... there isn't enemy in the first place.... so from there... i can only say... the enemy is within... the enemy is our VS tradition of playing too hard... starting too late... and sleeping in class..... (of which i am guilty in most.... =p)

It is true that our academic results ain't fantastic... or very good... but i think education isn't just about the grades.... it is also about character building and stuffs.... and that's where VS excel... producing people of character... gentlemen, profesisonals and sportsmen....

Grades this type of thing... it can be improved... maybe with some changes to the education system... imrpove quality of teaching and stuffs like that... get better studying materials... impose less comfortable classrooms so that everyone won't sleep in class....
There are alot of suggestions... but i can't give a very constructive or realistic one right now... because i can't really think about it too...occupied with SISPEC... maybe when i pass out this Saturday i will go pay my school a visit... see how...
And i just found out yesterday night that they are going to wear our "bumble-bee" PE shirt to Orachard Road yesterday... would have gone to join them if i had found out about it earlier... but i won't wear the PE shirt... it's abit... inappropriate to go Orachard like that... haha...
And maybe i should have went Orchard when Wei Song asked me to... wasted...

Back to the topic... actually what affected me most, and make me so firm in saying no to the co-ed was the Spirit of the school... the VS spirit....it is something that cannot be pushed aside just like that... this spirit... has been built by all the MALE Victorians all through this hundreds of years... i can confidently tell you... no other schools can match up to us in terms of spirit.... not even VJC...
For one thing... VJC is a co-ed college... and filled with alot of Duman High people... although it is suppose to be built for VS... but the reality is that they wanted the better brains over the true blue Victorians from VS... because our grades sucks i guess...so well.. the Duman people win... and thus... i would say that the Victorian spirit can never be built up strongly there.... or should i say... anywhere...

Speaking of which... i think it is a very offending thing to try to want to change the school anthem... think the VJC principal is not thinking right when she said it....
This school song have been sang by so many thousands Victorians... Thy Sons are we mean Thy sons are we... the sons thing, if you want, it can be taken at a general value, though it means for males.... they also call all human beings man... why no try asking them to change to call all human being woman....

A very good example is my former college... that is a very good exmaple of a college with no spirit... i tried getting into the system to create the spirit... but apparently...it didn't work... i can't feel the spirit.. nothing at all...
If something isn't there in the first place... it can't be there.... so well...

Like alot had said before... our 129 years of tradition... thrash alot of schools flat... VS is not just a instituition for studying... it is a school where powerful leaders are produced... especially Presidents... as a very good example...His Excellency Mr S.R. Nathan... and his excellency SRJC 16th ODAC President Mr you-know-who..... (hey.. just having some fun here... we can have fun while being serious too man....)

Actually i think all these just sums up to one thing.... it is the Spirit.. the tradition of the school that all old Victorians want to preserve... so i do not support changing all the 129 years just for academic's sake.... i mean.. c'mon, there's got to be a better way than getting girls in to imrpove the results...

And hey... who says girls are smarter?
I'm not being a sexist here... but there is no link to say that with girls around... results can improve... look at all the co-ed school... only a few manage to do well... but they don't have the school spirit in them.... that's the difference between VS and them....
If we were to have girls in.... i think they should change the name too... change it to Siglap Secondary School.. or East Coast Park Secondary School... then it will become just another neighbourhood school... just seeking to improve in academic results... no school spirit... no life...

The fact that Victoria School is named so and not Victoria Seconday School shows that it is not just another secondary school... look at RI and TCH... you don't see them calling themselves Raffles Secondary School... or The Chinese High Secondary School.... because they are different themselves too...

VS is only VS with male Victorians around... and this shouldn't change.... even if Victoria Beckham wants to study there (no link~~~)....

It's like adding boys to Cedar (although there are actually quite a few there liao... =p)... they sell pork and meat one... or maybe adding boys to NYGH......

This is an institution that has changed me alot... from a plump boy to a strong and muscular and mature MAN .... and i believe it can continue to change many more boys... not girls...
If they want.... maybe they can have a BS (Beckham School), or VGS (Victoria Girls School) to complement VS, and not add girls into VS while retaining the name...
Actually i tihnk the idea of a VGS is not bad too... so that the tradition can be used to change girls to woman too... benefit both sexes... "he le er bu wei"?

Just don't add girls into VS.... it isn't right....


Lim De Wei
Graduated 2002, 4G
CCA:
Assistant Class Monitor
VS Track&Field Discus Thrower
VSNPCC Sergeant
Camp Instructor
VICTORIAN - Once a Victorian, always a Victorian....
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