“School is so boring, why can’t I stay at home and play computer games?” This is a common type of response we get from students in Singapore now. Singapore students no longer appreciate education, and many of their daily actions can tell us this. School, to these students, is a place for fun and games, and not study. Typical Singaporean students are speaking in huge strings of vulgarities, with their shirts tucked out and mobile phones on, even when the school rules clearly do not allow these actions. Students nowadays also often turn a deaf ear to the discipline master's advice. This leads to a worry of what these future leaders of the country may become in the future.

Let us take a look at this problem in further detail. The main problems Singapore schools are facing with students are their mindset and attitude. These negative mindsets that they might have are pointed to their teachers, homework, rules and the school itself. We can see many negative mindsets already during classes. The teacher walks into the class, and greets the students. Some students would greet back in an idiotic and rude manner that shows no respect to the teachers. The more lenient teachers are usually the victims of this. Then, as the teacher starts to teach, the students start talking and the teacher is therefore forced to stop to tell the class to stay silent. Then, when silence is obtained, the teachers teach and the students start behaving idiotically and ask the teachers silly questions, as to waste the time of the period so that they can move on to the next lesson. There have been many cases of students going to toilets frequently to waste time. Even when the teachers warn the students that they may have to stay back for remedial lessons, their attempts are to no avail and the students continue to talk or chat with their friends. It seems that teachers are no longer the people to be obeyed; it seems like the students are to be obeyed by their teachers. In the past, teachers were regarded as some sort of “god”, and were treated with utter respect. Now, the teachers are regarded by the students as “obstructions”, people who stop their attempts in having fun at school. We are not trying to suggest that we go back to the past and start teaching in a way that makes students bored easily. However, we are suggesting that the teachers impose a limit to the amount of fun the students are allowed to get, and once the limit is breached, they would be punished.

When the teachers give homework at the end of the lessons finally, we would hear groans and moans, otherwise we would hear some people saying things like,”I shall not bother about the homework today.” Many of these students also copy their friend's work on the deadline.And when the students are obliged to submit their work at the dateline of the work, they would not do so, and the teachers who cannot get the better of the students would have to give in and extend the dateline, making it more hectic for the teachers to mark extra copies of work submitted at a different time. Sometimes, even with an extended deadline, the students do not bother about the homework and continued to delay the due date for the homework. Students also love to gives excuses for their late work and assignments.

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