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Just what exactly is napfa trying to prove? It's supposed to be a physical fitness test but I don't get the rationale behind the various stations. Say you can't clear the distance required for standing broad (which is everincreasing every year). The point being, apart from you're no medal contender at the olympics long jump event? How precisely is standing broad a standard for fitness? And don't even get me started on inclined (which is definitely the bane of my existence, as if school wasn't enough). Not everyone can pull like crazy; I know I can't. I don't even get the physics behind this thing got pulling in the first place. I know that I am desperately pulling (to no avail) then people kindly and encouragingly tell me I am not doing anything. Thanks SO much for the recognition. I must have been hallucinating! I don't want to give up but it's just making everyone miserable if I continue. ME being most miserable. So I can't do it, does that make me any less fit than someone who does not even go for PE? How wacked is that? What about 2.4? Training us in case singapore's transport system decides to go on hiatus someday? What about sit-n-reach? I am not complaining as long as I can get that right but sadly, that'd also mean that the extremely leggy and tall will end up in 3rd period all their lives. As if we end school early and have time to run ourselves ragged. *pffft* For their information, our workload now is like practically insurmountable? Complete 1 and you have 2 more. It's not secondary school you know. The amount of crap to do is NOT proportional to the time required to complete it. By the time 1 measly essay is completed, half the day is gone. That means overshooting of bedtime since 3/4 of the day is spent in school. See? You do the math and you'll realise the time doesn't tally. WHY? Because it spills over into the next day, and the next and the next! So they decidedly feel that work can wait, sleep can be put on hold AS LONG as we can complete napfa! *AWESOME ISN'T IT?* The amazingly first-grade mentality simply amazes me! And I thought getting As were important to them. I suppose it doesn't matter anymore, we can continue degrading ourselves, sliding down the percentages chart as long as we maintain our position. It LOOKS good doesn't it, constant maintenance. Take a closer look at the percentages then you'll probably see the widening gap. Oh perhaps since this is like the 21st(22nd? 23rd?) century, they probably expect students to have a built-in chip. Just work work work and even without sleep, they can hell manage. Thanks alot for that faith in us. Don't we just love you?