[ A New Direction ]

Letter to ALL Victorians

Dear Victorians,

The blog, the petition, and the forums, thanks to you, have experienced such a massive show of input and support. We have reached a point of critical mass where almost every viewpoint has been expressed at least once, and thus with the knowledge that the Victorian Spirit is blazing brightly and that we have the general support of Old Victorians, we will archive everything and move on to the next step.

Expressing our viewpoints and debating the pros and cons can only go so far in this effort. If we really want to make a difference, we should be prepared to get our hands dirty, and play an active role, not in preventing VS from going Co-ed, but keeping Victoria School relevant (academically). Let’s face it, the decision whether to go co-ed isn’t in our hands, and no matter how much noise we make, the decision can still go either way at the end.

So let us focus on what we can do. It’s statistically clear that the academic quality of VS is slipping, and this year, we are in a unique position to make an effort to reverse that trend, since last year was our bumper crop of “O” level graduates, “the best results achieved in more than a decade”.

What we want to do is to gather Victorians from every arena, be it if you’re in a JC, poly, or currently teaching, or a retired teacher or lecturer, to return to our alma mater and give academic support to the Sec 4 Victorians currently studying for the “O” levels. We understand that some Victorians have long “given everything back to their teachers”, but that does not render your contribution useless, such people can help us by giving us referrals, or providing us with contacts to parties that might be willing to help.

Somebody posted on the forum a day ago. “Victorians never fail to rise up to meet a challenge,” This is a challenge to all Old Victorians. Will you return to the mother that you never really left to help in an effort to restore its glory? Will you be willing to volunteer a portion of your day, at your choosing and discretion, to come back and show Victorians how to keep the flag unfurled? Her need has never been greater. This is a time where you find that 25 pointers are in the top quarter of the cohort.

If you are willing to rise up to this challenge, please submit your personal details at http://vs.jonaize.com/form_mailer.html, and a member of our committee will contact you as soon as we have finalized the details of this plan with the administration of Victoria School. We hope to carry out this program such that it is of maximum convenience to you, so please do not let fears of commitment issues stay your hand in volunteering for Victoria.

For those of you who feel that you need help, this is also a place for you to submit your particulars so that old-Victorians can help you .

Nil Sine Labore

and this has never been a better time to remind us of it.

- The Team