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There was a meeting scheduled earlier with the representative officers of the Recognized Student Organizations about their requirements for reaccreditation for the coming school year, the date of our leadership camp and what it would mean to be probationary.

I still find it weird that a lot of these organizations have it in their constitutions that succession is by appointment and that it is possible for officers to have terms of more than one school year.

Can that really be attributed to the lack of extra-curricular participation among our students?

And if the student leaders cannot find a solution to that even though they are supposed to have the pulse of the population, does that mean they aren’t really trying or that they are too wrapped up in their own agendas or the agendas of the few and vocal?

Of course it can always be blamed that we did not equip them enough to be able to tell.

Still, at the very least they should be able to report to the teachers about their impressions and observations, so that we can all try to analyze it and come up with a solution together.

There really is a thin line between allowing the students to be independent and giving them proper instruction.

At one extreme they have no supervision at all and they can use the excuse that they do not know what they are doing.

On the other end they will say that they are being strangled by not being given any freedom.

Students should be very careful before they even hint at crying out that they are being oppressed, because it would be very easy to show them real strictures where they can’t even whine.

Another thing they should also learn is to accept blame for what they did not do and not just keep throwing or pointing the fault at everyone but themselves, as if their good intentions and big visions alone are enough for them to remain pure and innocent.

Humility and knowing when to ask for help (at the start, constantly and not only at the end) go over well with their elders.

I have also mentioned here before about the dangers of hanging only around people who tell them what they want to hear, because that keeps their view closed and isolated, and that is how it is very easy for them to neglect seeing the whole big picture, and not consider a lot of aspects of preparing an event until it is too late.

Of course another aspect is not being completely honest with everything, which comes out very easily when one of their given reasons is shot down and they bring out another point that is relatively skewed instead of parallel to the first reason. Teachers, after all, have heard every excuse in the book.