Opportunity to shine in arts

FORM Three students in my school had to fill in their application forms for their desired streams two weeks ago. As we were confined to our homes due to the Covid-19 conditional movement control order, we joined a Google Meet hosted by the school to explain the packages offered.

Each teacher was given a chance to talk about their respective elective subjects. Midway through the talk, I recalled the many times in school when several teachers told their students to “study hard, then you can enter science stream” or, even worse, “the arts stream is for weak students – make sure you’re not one of them.”