My Views on Chong Boon School Rules

Are school rules really needed for a school? Can a school be peaceful without school rules? School rules are very important to a school, as it serves as a "guide line" for many things. Things we should not do, bring are mostly included in the school rules. It helps to keep a school safe as we would not have students punching each other for no reasons. In Chong Boon, if we ever break a rule, we would be punished by serving pride time. Pride time is actually known as detention in many other schools, but in our school, PRIDE is our core value. Pride time is to let us reflect on our core values and eventually know what is wrong. I think that rules are necessary for a school.

In Chong Boon, the school rules are more or less the same as other schools. There are rules about appearance, late coming, truancy, behaviour and other more serious offences. Truancy is very uncommon among many schools, but that does not mean that it will not happen. I agree that that that rule have to be implemented, if not you would find students missing school everyday, for no reasons. The other thing I do not agree on is that the definition of truancy in our school. It says that a pupil is considered truant if he/she is not present in school (including school events and CCA) and is unable to give a satisfactory explanation for his/her absence. For the CCA part, many teachers are quite unreasonable and do not accept excuses from students, even if a parents letter is being given. They would mark their students as absence, and the rule Truancy would come in. I think that they should either remove the CCA part from the rule, or ask teachers to be more reasonable.

Appearance is a very important rule as it portrays the school's image. If a student looks messy, others would view the school as messy. An individual affects the whole school, and it takes a lot of efforts to build up reputation. We have to keep our hair short, not to wear jewellery and not to dye our hair. If dyeing of hair is allowed, then it would be disastrous. Imagine students with different colored hair running around in the school or outside. It would be like a gangster school. I think that this school rule is very important.

These few rules are only an example of the school rules. These rules are very important and it helps greatly in disciplining students. However, many people may feel that this rule or that rule is wrong, or should be altered. These things would definitely happen, as rules are not perfect. In my personal view, the truancy rule on the CCA should be altered or removed. Like I had said, teachers may be unreasonable and do not accept reasons. These results in our conduct in the report slip. However, in overall, we should respect the school rules and abide it.

Therefore, school rules are there for a purpose. It would guide us through our school lives and make our lives easier. We must and should follow it. In many places, there are rules. In school there are school rules; at home there are house rules. We will definitely abide by the house rules, and we should do so to the school rules too.