Sunday, September 14, 2008

Silence means Consent?

Have not attended SC briefing for a long long time... the last one was about 5 years ago, before I left for Bhutan... while still holding the portfolio of the HOD/ICT... oh yes, a foot into practically anything pertaining to ICT, KM, SC... those were the days (so far away).

Well, every time (in the past), briefings were always conducted in Teachers' Network. Well, seems like it has become a permanent place for SC briefing! Still there, except it used another LT instead (for this time only?)

Sitting in the familiar setting... saw only a couple of familiar faces (one 'evergreen' in SCAC and another HOD/ICT from a west zone school) Really, only a couple!!! (where I belonged to was the east zone!)

Suddenly felt I was a newcomer to the whole thing, so many acryonms that I'm not familiar with... MSL... while I thought it's a noun - which true enough, it's a noun, I heard the presenter say something like... "When a student MSL-ed" Wah! what kind of English is that??? From the mouths of people of School Div! There were also several other abbreviated terms! What a hell they were!!! (Oops!!!)

Throughout the briefing, there were several areas that the team wanted to get feedback from the audience... nevertheless, it was put across as, "Well, I'm asking you if you find it ok... If you have no objection, we'll take it that you all support our proposal... and we shall go ahead with the enhancements! You have agreed to it!"

Yeap, that was the impression I had throughout the 3 hours briefing... SCAC just need the crowd there... as far as there wasn't any objection, it's taken consenus... Moreover, at several junctures, there wasn't any wait time for the audience to react!!! Fair??? Enough time to process and react???

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