A Reaction on Making a Reaction Paper (Huh?)

 brother runs a computer shop here in our province. Yes, I am currently on vacation here in Odiongan, Romblon. The cafe also offers typing jobs which his wife and my other younger brother helps him with. Since my parents are both teachers (I really don't know where my values went), they get a lot of typing requests. Mind you, this is the province and not all have computers at home or even know how to use them. So why am I telling you this? Here's why.

So I was doing my rounds of bloghopping hoping to get more traffic here like before when my brother approach me and asked for my help. He wants me to make a reaction paper for one of his customers, a college student. I readily accepted the job thinking that all I need to do was encode letters and words. To my dismay, he was actually asking me to MAKE THE REACTION PAPER MYSELF! I was like WHUAAAATTTT!!! Of course I refused. Then he offred me a bargain, I will watch over his kid while he does the reaction paper. I chose the more convenient one - DO THE DARN PAPER.

The students were asked to do a paper on the movie "Transformers: The Return of the Fallen." There were bullet points as to what should be in the paper - from introduction to summary to comments. It was really easy. I mean you can get everything from the internet nowadays. Of course I couldn't help but to put some of my personal inputs. Thanks to Wikipedia and IMDB.com I was to get some background. I finished the paper in less than an hour.

NOW, I RANT

What the hell is happening to our education system? To our students? It was like getting your thesis ready-made from Recto for a hundred bucks! I told my brother that he should not accept job offers like that because it wa an assignment assigned to the students. How will they know how to research on their own? I was really disappointed. I blame both my brother and the students. My brother because he tolerates the kind of behavior that diminishes students' supposedly skills and capability to do it on their own (Whitney?). The students because they rely so much on other people. What happens when they grow up and face the real world? People are not as nice and accommodating when you grow up. They will not be as patient and as helpful. Right?

So this goe out to all the students out there. Study hard. Rely mostly on yourself and don't ask my brother to research for you! Argh!

Enough of this. Might as well entertain this guy in my YM who's been buzzing me for the last 30 minutes. Ciao for now.