Students Get Interrupted By Prinicpal With Concern - Amrita Desmet

On the first of October at 10 am, Grade 8 students of UWCSEA East campus witnessed an interruption by their principal during english class. Mrs. Yong - MacDonald, the vice principal of middle school, had entered for an inspection of the student’s mobile phones. She gave no explanation other than: “Anybody who has a telephone is going to have to hand it in. We need to handle a situation.” The whole picture was quite mysterious and enigmatic.

The students of classroom B521, were motionless like dolls. Some looked baffled while others looked perplexed. The english teacher, Anne Marie Chow, had no choice but to ask her students to execute the instructions. As Mrs. Yong - MacDonald watched like a hawk, the students received their phones and handed them in nimbly.

At the end of the lesson, students were concerned to retrieve their phone but that was not all that happened. Mrs. Chow confessed that the act before hand was staged. “It was all fake. Your phones are outside. Since you just started your journalism unit, we wanted an event to take place for you to start writing about. Let’s get writing!” And with that, the students could dig even further into their journalism unit. At the sudden news, students acted intimidated and confused but the whole act was an eye-opener.