As far as I can remember, we started electing class officers when we were in 3rd grade. Of course, as a child, I’m overly excited of electing officers by myself and what an honor it is to be one. Not even thinking about their roles and obligations, I was anxious and happy, indeed.
The election started and it ended. Damn! I was so upset when I was not even nominated for any of the positions written in the chalk board. As usual, the "smart ones" are the ones who were given the positions. The teacher told us that the officers will be responsible for the class, meaning, they will make the class keep quiet, form our lines, coordinate with the teachers and blah blah blah blah shiz.
As a child it is normal to flaunt their achievements. I remember how my classmates bragged about it and boy; their heads were as big as a hot-air balloon!!! At the first few weeks of their term, they were very active. Super active, the OA kind of active. They made us fall in line, they list our name in the noisy list after saying "OO" in a low voice, they get our IDs, and they tell the names of the noisy peeps to the teacher so that we'll be punished and so on and so on and so on.
See how they made my life miserable? But actually their activeness faded after 4-5 weeks. duh? What happened to your earthly duties, huh? hahaha!!!!!
Sure. Their actions made me happy and everything is back to normal again. And this where I became silent. Silence is not a mere silence to me. Silence means, I think and analyze things on my own. And then I found out that: officers are just for show, at that time.
When I was in third grade, everything was for show. Just so that people can say that we have a set of officers doing some job. Which actually doesn't do their jobs after 4-5 weeks. I realized that we are just kids. And that is what we do. It’s our nature to do what the adults say and later on do what we want to do. I do not blame my hot-aired classmates for being like that and in fact, I pity them whenever they take sermons from "GODJIRA". They know that they are in position and they have the responsibility.
My concept of class officers took a sharp turn when I took a grade higher and I transferred to a different school. So different that I could not think of ways of how to adapt. Since everything is different, the class officer system was different too.
This is where I learned that:
- the concept of the "smart ones" has not been eradicated but it did when we were in high school
- the president is the spicy apple of the eye of the teacher (laging napag-iinitan)
- Ang vice president ang taga patay ng ilaw at electric fan
- ang secreatary ay madalas tagasulat sa chalk board kapag tinatamad ang titser
- ang secretary ay dapat maganda magsulat
- ang secreatry ay madalas tagasulat lamang ng kung ano ano...
- the treasurer collects the weekly dues and after they have collected it, the money just vanishes.
- the treasurer collects money to buy something and after buying that something, the change vanishes
- asside from the assistant treasurer, there is an auditor, who records financial paper works.
- ang P.R.O ay usually wlang ginagawa.
- there are 2 PROs. 1 boy and 1 girl. so wat? wats wrong wid 2 girls or 2 boys?
- kasama pala sa set of class officers at election ang muse at escort
- kung may nakalimutan akong position, it means that they are insignificant
what is written above is a mere perception of what has been observed, heard ans seen. don't tell me that all these are not true nor any of these are happening.
ayos diba. very different from what i have when i was younger. at that time, it seems like the work is uniformed and you are just doing one thing. but the system has great flaws in it because clear and specific responsibilities has never really understood by many, including me (please refer to the list above. hehe).
but believe it or not, it functions in a mysterious way and that later on you'll realize that evrything is in order. amazing shiz!! i do not know how they do it and i bet the class has something to do wid it....
all i know is that i grew up, loving and hating our class officers. and that's just about it. they still are your friends and classmates. and at the end of the day you'll realize "trabaho lang, walang personalan"
->Cha
