Friday Specialz

I may or may not have tried to climb the school gate to get out

..aaaaand got caught doing it.

Mind you, it was a decision made after much deliberation- if you'll call a couple seconds of hesitation that.

Here's how it went:
Left foot up
Right foot
Coast is clear when you first checked it- if you're gonna do it, you gotta be quick.
You were halfway across when something like a shout came: 'Girl! Stop! STAHPPP!!'
You lower your head and retrace your steps; not in shame, but in resignation. Also- cuz the first instinct had been to laugh, and you wouldn't do that if you were gonna act like breaking school rules bothered you, would ya?
Lumbering slowly over, you glance at the teacher who'd called out to you.
Her forehead, creased with.. Anger?
'Just to clarify, my lessons ended at 12:15 today.' It's surprising, how your voice comes out as a drawl whenever you are thiiiiss close to being in hot soup.
'Yeah I wasn't assuming anything like that.'
You nod.
You apologize, you say that you're sorry.

'You're sorry because you were caught! If you'd gotten over, you wouldn't have felt anything at all.'

'Yup, you're right.'

Moment of silence.
Then came that flowy sentence of school reputation, and you nod and smile- you get her point, but it really is a dumb rule that you can't agree with, so...
She asks if there's something that happened that made you do something so 'reckless', and you tell her the truth: 'No.'
She crosses her arms, tsking in her head.
'I'm always worried when students start doing things like these- something might have happened or will happen.'

Worry, it was actually worry etched in the creases between her brows.
That was unexpected, her genuine concern for us students.
But then again, quite a lot of them teachers are great people- excluding the biased ones and those who act differently around superiors.
You couldn't help but start to admire her, a little.

She then lets you off when she sees that you aren't 'problematic trouble', and tells you to wait with the the Mandarin version of 'be good'.

I have to say, I sometimes wish I were a rebellious, angsty teen angry at the world; for it would have been ten times easier to just go over the gate when the shout came, or to scream in her face and oppose her that way. But that's not the way I'm brought up.. And neither do I think that obeying rules without question is the way to go. Sure this is school, and it's a special case today since I was released an hour earlier, but I really didn't care much about being 'well-behaved'.

Still,
I can't help but chuckle at myself-
Who the hell tries to rebel and gets caught?!
I'm such a novice I might as well remain that 'good student' for the rest of my time here, heh.

On another note tho,
I'm sure that it's only in school that I can be let off this easily, with a kind and nice teacher- if this were society and I broke a law, it'd be terrible. But in the first place that wouldn't happen; In my books, so long as no one is hurt in the process, no morals were bent and broken, you're good. Nothing 'bad' was actually done.

You're right, I'm not repentant.
It wasn't a right thing to do.
But really, there wasn't any harm done, was there?

Only here in my school and Singapore is there such a huge emphasis on rules and 'behaving';Breaking a few rules isn't the end of the world, so why is it that it's being treated like the sky has collapsed and you're the one responsible for it?

I understand the logic behind not opening the gates till its 1:30- you're afraid of truant students. Still, we are a school consisting of 13-18 year olds, so isn't that too silly a rule to enforce for alllll the students? 17 and 18 year olds have different timetables that result in erratic schedules like that, you know. In the first place, there's no reason for us to play truant- the school culture is to work hard and excel at everything, stay out of trouble, be silent as moths in class, and to obey, obey, obey.

Hah, I'm probably not that great a person for you to learn from, huh?