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Monday, July 25, 2005
Just when you thought a fire was the limit...
The school introduces yet new ways to do me in.
It was supposed to be the first life-science session, 4 in total, today.
It was supposed to enlighten me on the art of DNA.
It was supposed to bring a pleasant end to the tiring school day.
It was supposed to be the first life-science session, 4 in total, today.
It was supposed to enlighten me on the art of DNA.
It was supposed to bring a pleasant end to the tiring school day.
Somehow, it managed to exceed the criteria.
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7pm: The end of the life-science lesson. All was well, spirits were high, and was looking forward to dinner. Well, that all vanished when we exited the Biology lab. The blasted shutter was closed.
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7.05pm: Hovering around the corridors of the 2nd storey, trying to find a way out. There were students studying around the corridor where the JC1 chemistry board was located. We screamed, we shouted, and though we were only a shutter away, they didn't respond. Nobody rushed to the General Office, nobody told us what to do, they just stared.
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7.10pm: Third floor. Biology lab was on 1st floor. You would think the cleaners would have checked if all the classrooms of a particular school block were unoccupied before they sealed it off. We were like streetkids then, trapped in a departmental store after hours, with nobody to friggin help us. The teachers didn't say anything, at all.
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7.12pm: Finally, someone. A group of students had climbed up to the roof via a fire escape ladder. Judging from their actions, we deduced that they hinted that the roof path was safe and that we had clearance to advance. Why else would they climb onto the roof?
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7.14pm: Sprinted across the roof to where the group of students were. We had made it. The only thought that crossed our minds. We were free, to go home.
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7.25pm: Some guy finally went and got the cleaners to open the shutters.
And when we were finally free. And then, unexpectedly, the teacher came and inquired, "Who asked you people to cross?"
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Like Sheesh!
She sounded as if she was concerned that the roof wasn't sturdy enough!
She would have done a much better job asking us not to cross in the first place.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anyways, we were deceived by the disillusions presented to us, but we were purely trying to get home.
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It's not as if the roof was crumbling or anything. If the teachers/principal/staff agrued that it was unsafe and how would they be able to answer to our parents if anything happened, they were over-concerned.
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If they said the roof might have crumbled, it just goes to show how unsafe the school really is. That being said, they might have to close down due to safety issues. Even so, if they had wanted to prevent such 'stupid' behaviour from happening, why didn't they just lock the ladders leading to the roof, like put a barricade or something to deny access to the roof. Why had they left it open? Obviously for situations like this.
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If they said we might have slipped from the ladder, they were denouncing the PC teachers, clearly showing no confidence in our physical capabilties and that the PC teachers hadn't trained us well enough to grab to the rungs firmly.
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There was always the issue of accidents, they argue. Simply put, there was always quite a number of people ensuring the person climbing the ladder was safe, ready to support/grab the person should he/she fall from the ladder, a height of around 2 metres.
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Having read all this, would you, the reader, agree that our attempt, although impulsive, had incurred no casualities and was relatively safe, by any standards?