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EVERYTHING THAT DOESN’T KILL YOU IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOU STRONGER: your teacher’s comment

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What can I say, guys? It took me time “to digest” everything you’ve written for this entry in our blog.

Believe me, it was not easy, but it was SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUSLY useful.

So, first of all, great sincere THANKS to everyone who took pains to express your thoughts honestly and frankly.

Also I would like to assure you that the fact that nobody likes to be controlled and told what to do is nothing new. Everyone survived – you will definitely survive too. Reading your rules, I vividly recollected my university years when I lived in a student’s hostel. How we hated all regulations and limitations! Now most of them seem sensible. What’s wrong about such rules as no smoking and no alcohol, no noisy parties after midnight and no male guests who didn’t live in our hostel? Definitely, nothing. However, then it made us really furious. We even had a sort of “anthem” that was played dozens of times at each of our discos – Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall from the Wall, 1980 which is definitely worth listening to as well as the whole album.

Finally, even if now you feel too rebellious to listen to teachers and parents, may be you will find sense in the words of two wise people. The first one is my graduate Yuriy Simakin, class of 2014 (you all quoted him when you learnt the topic about the school rules, remember? “To my mind, the evolution of a student’s attitude to school in general and its rules in particular can be described like this. First grade - I love to go to school. Second grade - I hate to go to school. Fifth grade - I have to go to school. Tenth grade - I must go to school. Eleventh grade - oh, school, why do we have to leave you?” Y. Simakin) and the second one doesn’t need any introductions.