Council Investiture 2010

Council Investiture, An annual event in which Hwa Chong Invites student leaders from all over the country into our air-conditioned auditorium to "marvel" at the councillors of our school being invested as councillors. In other words, it is a significant.............ly pointless event for councillors of other schools.

Why do I say so? I have my reasons. Think carefully:

1) Why would other schools want to go to our school just to watch us student councillors stand on stage in a formation in our nice council uniforms and the Exco getting badge by the Director of consortiums, which are, to them, but teachers that they do not even know?

2) Why would students from other schools want to know who the Executive committee of the respective consortium councils are? Do they even recognise them in the first place?

3) Why would other students want to watch a photo montage of people whom they do not even know?

4) And why would other schools want a school tour of our school? What do we want to achieve by doing school tours? Or are we just "following tradition"?

These are some of the questions I had when I was having my Investiture this Afternoon.

We have a purpose for everything we do. We do the Investiture practically because we want other consortium councils to recognise the Excos and members of other consortium councils. We watch in pride as our fellow schoolmates stand on the stage in front of us and our Executive committees getting badged by respectable people we know, the directors of consortiums respectively. We film a photo montage to remind us of the fun times we had in council for the previous year. And we do our school tours because we have pride in our campus's facilities and landmarks.

But I ask myself then: Why invite other schools to our Council investiture? Sure, they may be here to grace the event, but School tours?

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Yours Sincerely,

Lim MX