nan hua ncc
Went to some school today and yesterday for NCC training.
What I heard was right.
What I saw was expected.
The bottomline statement: There's a lot to be done.
And CSS NCC better not start slacking(even though they already are).
The teachers are not a problem to me so far. Though most are unsupportive, at least they are not de-supportive(if there is even such a word) of the unit. At least there is still trainings during the holidays. At least one of the teachers is concern of the standard of the unit.
The school has a pretty good history.
But it started to slide down somewhen after 2003. They achieved Gold award for that year. Dropped to a silver the year after. And eventually to a bronze in 2005. For this year, the result has yet to come. What happened during those period, I don't know. Neither do I have that much interest to find out. What pulled me to that school was that I believe they have the potential to become a Gold unit once more. And I started to have the idea on helping that school out when I was an instructor in the Specialist Course that I went this year. Because that was when I got the shock of my life. They were not ready to be Specialists.
Whatever it is, my aim is still the same. That is for both schools to achieve Gold for 2007 and hopefully stays there.
I am expecting it to be extremely difficult for a number of reasons:
1) Double work.
2) Tighter school schedule.
3) Unfavourable behaviours.
4) Opposition of plans.
Back to the 2nd school's trainings for yesterday and today, I must say me and CM have already gradually started to fine-tune the system and so far the response from the teachers and cadets are okay. There will be more changes for certain but it has to take some time.
For yesterday's training, me and CM observed and concluded on where the standard of the school is. The bottomline statement is enough to draw the picture. So we planned to start from the basics and hopefully after the CCA Extravaganza next year, we are able to start with the major changes. Even the Specialists have to be taken care of as there are some problems. The 2 problems which I think should be given most attention to are:
1) The ability to work and make decisions on their own.
2) The military knowledge that is expected of them.
And for today's training. I am damned pissed off when I heard somebody who said something that is very unbecoming of a leader.
"If I don't have 5o people by 8.30, I will call off the training."
F***-ed up attitude.
Like what Clement used to say, "You show me the leader and I know the men."(vice versa)
How can you call off a training when there's not enough people? Isn't it the same as closing down a school when one student is absent? What's the bloody point of waking up early and reporting to school at 0800 hrs just to know that training is cancelled? What's the POINT? If you are the cadet, don't YOU feel f***-ed up? If that's the system, why don't the cadets just boycott and not come for training? What message are you sending across to your cadets here??!!
I can't imagine you wearing the same uniform as me. I'm so disgraced and ashamed of your unreasonable attitude. It's your own school and yet this is how you handle them. Nonsense.
That's one big hurdle we have to overcome. But by June next year, he will be off. He better be. To have such a person in the corps, is very detrimental to the standard of the corps itself.
Frogs in a well. They have to know that frogs are not always green in colour.
What I heard was right.
What I saw was expected.
The bottomline statement: There's a lot to be done.
And CSS NCC better not start slacking(even though they already are).
The teachers are not a problem to me so far. Though most are unsupportive, at least they are not de-supportive(if there is even such a word) of the unit. At least there is still trainings during the holidays. At least one of the teachers is concern of the standard of the unit.
The school has a pretty good history.
But it started to slide down somewhen after 2003. They achieved Gold award for that year. Dropped to a silver the year after. And eventually to a bronze in 2005. For this year, the result has yet to come. What happened during those period, I don't know. Neither do I have that much interest to find out. What pulled me to that school was that I believe they have the potential to become a Gold unit once more. And I started to have the idea on helping that school out when I was an instructor in the Specialist Course that I went this year. Because that was when I got the shock of my life. They were not ready to be Specialists.
Whatever it is, my aim is still the same. That is for both schools to achieve Gold for 2007 and hopefully stays there.
I am expecting it to be extremely difficult for a number of reasons:
1) Double work.
2) Tighter school schedule.
3) Unfavourable behaviours.
4) Opposition of plans.
Back to the 2nd school's trainings for yesterday and today, I must say me and CM have already gradually started to fine-tune the system and so far the response from the teachers and cadets are okay. There will be more changes for certain but it has to take some time.
For yesterday's training, me and CM observed and concluded on where the standard of the school is. The bottomline statement is enough to draw the picture. So we planned to start from the basics and hopefully after the CCA Extravaganza next year, we are able to start with the major changes. Even the Specialists have to be taken care of as there are some problems. The 2 problems which I think should be given most attention to are:
1) The ability to work and make decisions on their own.
2) The military knowledge that is expected of them.
And for today's training. I am damned pissed off when I heard somebody who said something that is very unbecoming of a leader.
"If I don't have 5o people by 8.30, I will call off the training."
F***-ed up attitude.
Like what Clement used to say, "You show me the leader and I know the men."(vice versa)
How can you call off a training when there's not enough people? Isn't it the same as closing down a school when one student is absent? What's the bloody point of waking up early and reporting to school at 0800 hrs just to know that training is cancelled? What's the POINT? If you are the cadet, don't YOU feel f***-ed up? If that's the system, why don't the cadets just boycott and not come for training? What message are you sending across to your cadets here??!!
I can't imagine you wearing the same uniform as me. I'm so disgraced and ashamed of your unreasonable attitude. It's your own school and yet this is how you handle them. Nonsense.
That's one big hurdle we have to overcome. But by June next year, he will be off. He better be. To have such a person in the corps, is very detrimental to the standard of the corps itself.
Frogs in a well. They have to know that frogs are not always green in colour.
