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Rafflesian Times
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YOLO is slang for‘ You Only Live Once’ which is used to indicate something exciting, usually in relation to an excuse for irresponsible behavior
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Elections
If we are to be completely honest, it must be said straight from the outset that student democracy in RI is not student government. In fact, if democratic government is to be our metaphor, then the Prefectorial Board and Students’ Council are rather more like civil servants than politicians. Doubtlessly, they perform several integral functions, and many councillors and prefects serve the student body with dedication and humility. The problem is that in the eyes of the student body, the impact of the things they do is not equal to the vaunted method of their selection— in other words, electoral processes only work to find the best candidates when people genuinely care about whether or not those elected will do a good job, and the work councillors and prefects do is underrated because it doesn’ t seem as though it will enable them to change school life in any
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Many confessors fulminating about the reduction of the democratic exercise to a mere popularity contest were clearly thinking along the same lines. Confessions such as‘ it’ s quite sad to see council elections being turned into a massive popularity contest” and“ the only way to win vote is through style, not substance” reflected worries that electing school leaders was an exercise in futility.
At least on the Y1 – 4 side, it also seems that being a prefect is no guarantee of meritorious behaviour( perhaps this can be explained as the general mischief and immaturity of younger students as a whole). One confessor, who submitted the confession:‘ Cheating together with school prefects. YOLO 2’ attracted the condemnation of many. Upon a quick inspection of the confessions page, this was clearly not an isolated incident, as confessions like‘ prefects should just stop breaking the school rules’ and‘ the prefects in my class play with their handphones during lessons and sleep during class’ regularly surface on its Facebook wall.
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