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发表于 24-8-2013 16:15:16|来自：新加坡
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对个体来说， 华中和RI没有什么区别。 同意xiziyi的看法，最重要的是孩子在学校的排名，在华中还是RI真的是没什么关系。
华中和RI几乎每年都会培养出A-level状元和无数优秀学生， 但这两所学校也同样有很多人在A-level中一个A都拿不到，甚至有一些孩子在中三和中四时就被学校劝退了。 这两所学校是出了名的“放羊学校”，资源丰富但对学生的学习抓得很松，适合有理想有决心有毅力比较独立比较成熟的孩子。 需要家长老师补习教师监督扶持，心智还不太成熟的孩子进了这两所学校会很痛苦。
去年有一个女孩在博客里写了这样一篇很长的文章《THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT HWA CHUNG JC》，文章描述了她在华中“悲惨”的生活。巨大的压力，来自名校孩子的鄙视，卑微，无助，像一只小蚂蚁活在无数“精英”的阴影下， 无论如何努力也无法追上别人，这一切让她近乎绝望。 A-level放榜那天， 她左手拿着小一到中学的成绩单（上面是无数的第一第一。。。），右手拿着A-level的成绩, 上面写着BBC/BA， 头脑中是无数拿到全A同学震耳欲聋的欢呼声。 她最后写道：
I had every negative thought about this HC stereotype and for that moment, I wish I didn't exist. I wished I could have just ran away from every single question in my life posted at me, I wish I could escape. I even had friends asking me if I DID NOT STUDY AT ALL for A levels which resulted in my results.
I felt so freaking offended but I can't blame them. To them, I have always been someone who achieve academic excellence because I work very hard for it. If I were not in hc and my hc friend did the same, I will probably think that way too. Like "hello? are you kidding me about your results that you studied for it? your school is like a top school....." blabla yada yada.
In my opinion, this whole "top school" thing is a partial scam. The fact behind all this glory is in selective publication. All you have to do is to tweak the way you present your results. What used to be a 80% distinction rate for H2 Geography now becomes a 80% A&B for H2 Geography. Hey, 80% sounds so great right? Who knows actually if you count distinction alone it is only about 50%? and that'll make us lose face because we prolly lose to our arch rival Raffles and other schools. The point is to not publish your bad results(take GP for an example. Anyone saw a slide that wrote 30% distinction for GP that day?) than to publish them and allow your own reputation to go down, and allow room for criticism.
This realisation seriously came in too late. Outsiders, or even myself in the past would think that "wow, such results are really fantastic" but having seen the truth behind everything, it all just seem like it's for marketing purpose. It's like we're all invisible to them. The disparity is so great that if the other 600 of us who didn't score at least 3A or above, we can form another school and be ranked last in the jc list.
It feels like I was fooled into this place because I was totally bought over by their marketing campaign of presenting the image of being so fun and everything. Our open house is all so warm and homely, orientation is so fun and enjoyable but when things get real, they get seriously real, and stressful, and competitive, and everything negative, for me at least.
I hope that from this, everyone from other schools will learn to erase this stereotype about us. Because it has been so hard trying to live up to the stereotype for so many of us in here but honestly, there is always such an ugly truth behind an elite education system. Very, very ugly in fact. It got us, even the students fooled till the day of results day.
这篇文章引起了华中学生的共鸣。很多莱佛士的学生也回复说：“和RI一样”。
所以， 这种精英学校真的不是对每一个人都适合的。 我们看到的都是绚丽的表象，看不到的是光环的阴影下下无数小蚂蚁们真正的生活。引用那位女孩的一段话; "So small, so insignificant, that I was almost invisible."
如果真的决定上华中和RI的话就一定要在心理上做好准备，想想我们要的是什么，得到的又会是什么， 还有没有更适合自己孩子的选择。
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