Thy Sons Are We

hey guys:)

hmmm i think everyone has heard about VS turning co-ed....

To be frank, i never really felt flustered when i heard it. In fact i was quite surprised at my friends and classmates from VS who had very drastic opinions about the change. I did not want to behave flustered just because "it was the natural reaction when you hear tradition is getting blasted..." I was just thinking ," Horrible," but it just stopped there. The consequence of such a change never really struck me until i read the link to the newpaper article in Wilbur's post ( Thanks Wilbur:))

the weight of the change would be fully felt. it would just be weird seeing girls running around the school. not being sexist here, but i don't think RGS or TKGS girls wants GUYS in their school, so yeah it is all tradition

tradition... it is not so much the acts or the habits that it carries, but the effort, blood or sweat or both, put in by the founders of the school and those who joined in the hard work halfway to make all this happen.

it's not that we hate girls, just that to break tradition would mean to break what many people stood for for years. Some have stood for it all their lives! After all, who lives past 129 years?

then again, i still felt before feeling the true weight of the change: just let it go.

after all, what can we do? after all that is done, the buck still stops at the MOE. it ain't going to be us making the decisions. we can do all the blogging and petitioning, and yes it is recognised as a clear effort to oppose change. we SHOULD do what we can. but after all that is done, we should spare ourselves of the anguish and regret and etc that cannot be described in words. Besides it ain't too healthy. Won't want to die early because of that.

still i would agree such a change would be a blackmark in the school's history. and it ain't just the size of a black or red dot that represents Singapore on almost every global map, it is going to be a big vacuum that would just suck away 129 years of tradition while robbing future generations of a unique experience in the Victoria school. Cool eh? This change would have 2 effects.

oh well, i can only say thy sons ARE we. not so much the all guys thing, but always a Victorian. yes yes, still a child of my dad and God, but let's take the phrase as symbolic ya?

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