From The Head Teacher

The energy and involvement of our students never ceases to amaze me.  With our school still buzzing with excitement from the U15 FOBISSEA Games, the Phuket 7s Football and The FOBISSEA Music Festival, we embarked on our own talent contest, published an edition of Babel, and worked our way through the final stages of the inter-house football competition.  Not content to rest on our laurels and drift towards the end of term, we are now preparing for a weekend of sport, with inter-school athletics tomorrow and the Terry Fox run on Sunday.  We still have time and energy to fit in the PTG’s Christmas BISzaar and the Winter Concert and the Bangkok Patana Feeding Frenzy Swim Meet.  Alongside this runs the Childrens Cancer Ward clubs activities connected with the Movember charity and our increasingly hirsute teachers.

Contrary to many views of teenagers, ours are fully involved in the school and the community.  This plea, below, from a United States judge who deals with teenagers regularly surely doesn’t apply to our students, your children? Does it?

“Always we hear the cry from teenagers, ‘What can we do, where can we go?’

“My answer is this: Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons and after you’ve finished, read a book. Your town does not owe you recreational facilities and your parents do not owe you fun.

“The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something. You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in sickness and lonely again. In other words grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. You are important and you are needed. It’s too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday. Someday is now and that somebody is you!”

 

Richard Dyer

Head Teacher
Secondary