CCA - MOE's compulsory gift to students. We all love you for it.
Co-corricular activities were introduced by the Ministry of Education to enhance social interaction, leadership, healthy recreation, self-discipline and self-confidence. Yes. I think that the Ministry of Education has done a great job of doing so.
I have the good fortune of belonging to a uniformed group, namely, the National Police Cadet Corps. I would sincerely like to thank the Ministry of Education (MOE) for allowing such a thing to be created. In fact, I sincerely believe that the National Police Cadet Corps (NPCC) have definitely implemented the values of healthy recreation very well, in addition to self-discipline. From my relatively brief time inside it so far, I firmly believe that my health and disclipline has been greatly improved.
Let's talk about today. There is a place in East Coast Park known as the Road Safety Park, where dedicated people belonging to NPCC occasionally go to supervise the bright minds of the future generation of Singapore about Road Safety. I had the fortune to be part of the "road marshalls" today.
I would like to add a brief note here - in uniformed groups, there is a very common practice, very commonly known as "knocking down". I think anybody who has had the fortune to listen to the loving seniors of NPCC implementing their discipline regime will be greatly enlightened on what it means.
To cut a long story short, at the Park, my friends and I showed very little discipline, by apparently not being quick and responsive enough, and by not doing our "drills" properly. Such a grave and serious error deserved a severe enough judgement, and though we were saved further embarrassment by being punished in front of the people whom we were marshalling, we were swiftly dealt with a small dishing of the aforementioned activity.
Such an enlightening circumstance! I'm pretty sure that my friends and I have had such an enriching experience, and have improved with the iron rod of discipline. We are indeed more self-disciplined and healthy.
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