Why did I ever though that the Chinese teacher would have patience of steel. As usual, I was feeling really hungry after Physics tutorial, so I went off to get a quick bite. Well, since I would be so near the photocopy shop by then, I might as well take the time to photocopy a revision paper for my classmates. You would think that the teacher will not miss me and Leonard.
How wrong I was. I suddenly received a text message from one of my classmates that the teacher has decided to issue me a white slip. I know of people who skip Chinese classes every other day, and I get white-slipped for being late for class for the third time. Come on, it is not as if we do not turn up. We are just helping her channel some of her period to do something a little more useful than us stoning there trying to figure out what she is saying. Slightly annoyed at the situation, I just skipped the whole damn lesson.
Well, I have been thinking about why I got white-slipped while other people do not, and I finally came up with a theory. I figured that the teacher has categorize her students into 4 distinct categories. The first one would be the good students who turn up for class on time every lesson, except for Tuesdays where they are still late, but earlier than most of the class. In other words, the first category consists of most of the girls and a couple of guys. The second one group of students are those who never skip lessons, but goes there only to sleep/ talk amongst themselves/ play PSP with it hidden stealthily in his bag. Under this falls a lot of the guys. The third group is bordering on hopeless. This happens to be the group I am from. We still turn up for classes, but we are late once in awhile. We do not bring our notes, and have only a few textbooks between all of us. On top of that, we use her lesson to do our work from other subjects. The very last category would be those who only turns up half the time, and when they do, they would stretch their non-interested bodies across the tables, close their eyes of apathy and take a quick one hour nap.
In hope of transferring people from the second group into the first group, she tries to engage her class by asking them questions so often that sometimes I wonder if she knows anything. And in hope of transferring people from the third group into the second group, she issues white slips to deter us from falling into the dark side. This is the only explanation.
xw 1:17 AM
