ORGANISING a carnival and involving all students and parents is a much harder way of raising funds ("Carnival tickets: Students feel sales 'pressure'"; last Saturday, "ACS Carnival: Any guidelines on school fund raising?" by Ms Maria Loh Mun Foong, "Event builds students' sense of belonging and commitment" by Mr Wang Zheng Ming, "Why I did not enrol my son in ACS" by Mr Steven Lee Thien Poh and "Students can learn much from fund raising" by Madam Emilyn Tan Lay Soon; Forum Online, all published yesterday).
There are countless meetings with parents and with students. Executing the event takes time, sweat and hard work. And the returns pale in comparison to the work put in, if calculated only in dollar value.
However, if we consider what is reaped or learnt from it - community effort, common good, resourcefulness, selflessness, resilience, character building and camaraderie, then all the effort put in is justifiable.
The students who put in the effort to sell the tickets get to work on their resourcefulness, putting them in good stead to be a part of society and the workforce.
This is the very type of community the students' parents chose for their children to be a part of. The students have benefited from this community, and they should learn to contribute to it as well.
Fund raising is very much a part of Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road), as the school is only partly funded by the Government.
There are easier ways of raising funds, but I applaud the school's principal, Mr Peter Tan, for not taking the easy way out; instead, he chose to provide a well-rounded education for the students by getting them involved in fund raising.
Cornelius Lee Eng Hock
There are countless meetings with parents and with students. Executing the event takes time, sweat and hard work. And the returns pale in comparison to the work put in, if calculated only in dollar value.
However, if we consider what is reaped or learnt from it - community effort, common good, resourcefulness, selflessness, resilience, character building and camaraderie, then all the effort put in is justifiable.
The students who put in the effort to sell the tickets get to work on their resourcefulness, putting them in good stead to be a part of society and the workforce.
This is the very type of community the students' parents chose for their children to be a part of. The students have benefited from this community, and they should learn to contribute to it as well.
Fund raising is very much a part of Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road), as the school is only partly funded by the Government.
There are easier ways of raising funds, but I applaud the school's principal, Mr Peter Tan, for not taking the easy way out; instead, he chose to provide a well-rounded education for the students by getting them involved in fund raising.
Cornelius Lee Eng Hock
