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There is something really ironic in school right now; the old students are not growing up!
There is bullying, running around the school campus, shouting loudly in the canteen, tapping tables inside the classrooms, and shouting at other students. Who do these? The Fourth Year students.
In a school, senior students are always looked up to. Being the so called “mirrors” to the little ones will always be the emphasis for which seniors are put up to. Senior students could only gain respect from the lower years as their older brothers and sisters if only they know and act better than them.
When freshmen display acts of immaturity; it is partially understood and acceptable. They are young, fresh from their elementary egg shells. However, when senior students do these unpleasant acts, then there must be something terrible going on with their stage of puberty and maturity.
As a senior student, I really don’t understand why things should be upside down. Perhaps we just miss being children or maybe, we’re just really that immature that it is too hard for us to think and show we really deserve being on our level. But no matter what the reason is, fourth year students are still fourth year students.
I believe that we are old enough to comprehend our part and identity in this school where we belong. We can’t be blind as though we do not care about anything. Let us not waste any of those morals imparted to us for almost three years in this school.
Our days as the leaders of this institution are already numbered. For our last school year, this school year, let us prove our existence as leaders and as the mirrors for those following us so they could look up to see reflections of disciplined and good-mannered students.
Let’s stop being arrogant because we don’t have anything to boast nor be proud of except our selfishness, and nonsense and irresponsible acts in the past years. Change, or improve, or grow up, or be more mature, whatever you call it. Let’s all just be the way how we should be.
Keep in mind what Sir Daniel Ambasing stressed on us: let us “leave impact, not impression, because impression dies but not our impact.” # by Zyne Baybay
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