on The Kids

Last evening, the kids had a tae-kwon-do class and we have an "outsourcing" teacher. Even that he had taught the kids for about 4 or 5 months, still he can't understand: what are these kids doing? Who they really are?

Our kids, as a part of continuous education institution, got the role model while they are still in the kindergarten. As they was born from "the haves", they enjoyed to be served. The service they keep in mind until now, when they're on the secondary school. Resulting less respect to the older. From their point of view, they enrolled the school to be pleased. They refused to touch a mop, laughing when the teacher angry at them, and even "attacking" the teacher, duplicated a classroom key, watching semi-porn music clip on ramadhan month (!) and doing silly smack-down. On the other side, there are clever and diligent students. Most of these type came from the outside of our education institution.

Our institution refused to have a strict discipline. The kids are stakeholders. And so, 13 year-old kids bring a motorcycle to the school and followed by his friends. Why? Both of the parents are too busy to pick their son up to study. And, yes, we need the students. We're new and have a relative small class. It's a business and we're trapped with the perspective. Wiseman said, "If you infest on education, you'll die. But if you don't, you've dead already" But here, we invest on an extravaganza. Creating 30 million grand opening for our newly built secondary school, but fired a teacher who followed CPNS test.

Our school is a part of a publishing enterprise. Largest in our region. But the support is merely joke. Our only financial resource is the students monthly payment. Do you think Rp 100 worth enough to be disputed? Yeah, here, Rp 50 is a big deal. You can lose your head if the printer ink is empty by the middle of the month. And so, the institution pushed us to search as many students as possible. The badboy from primary school seems to be a golden boy. Lots of agreements made to restrict the boy. But what can we do? We can only speak without action. And this "golden boy" influence their friends a "great" habit. With the class mixed, a "great" habit then become "new" habit to their friends. Agreements sucks.. Money paid then no complaints..

Is it a psychomotoric-based education? Letting the kids doing unrescpectable behavior and staring them walking around the class? If so, Indonesian education system don't have a space for it. With preference to the cognitive side, the affective and psychomotoric side is excluded. Islam teach us about great akhlak. But here we let the teacher sweep and mop the floor in front of their little stakeholder.

With javanese culture and Islamic Core on the curriculum, what will this kids future? They grow up in an unfair business of education and only become a pawn from a grand scenario.