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Why do we become apathetic and hesitate to give back to our alma mater? So, how do we as stakeholders help to maintain and restore the School’s
Why do we a look on unconcerned when the very standards and values standards and values? How do we rethink our collaboration with the
that attracted us to the School in the first place are being destroyed? Why School so that we act not as leeches but as standard-bearers for our School?
do we throttle the goose that lays the golden egg?
/Standard-bearer/ Noun:
Are we ignorant of the effect of our actions and inactions? Or has mediocrity 1. The bearer of a standard or distinctive flag for a unit or
group, usually military; A leading figure or representative for a cause or movement
so overwhelmed us in that insidious manner in which standards and or group. Source: Encarta dictionary (Microsoft)
values get lowered over time? No, it is not one big decision that lowers the
standards, but rather little, subtle, seemingly harmless decisions made over 2. A champion of all things Wesley Girls ensuring that the dignity, values and standards
of the School are maintained at all times.
time...
Whatever the nature of our relationship or collaboration with the School
And then one day you open your eyes (after 180 years of existence) and might be, in the end it must lead to the maintenance and or restoration of
realize you are so overcrowded you have been forced to not just move to the standards that have made our School so great and attractive.
bunk beds, but also destroyed pantries to make way for dining space; and
you have an assembly hall sitting uncompleted for ten years by the same We should all be standard-bearers for Wesley Girls’ High School, Cape
people who now demand to be entrusted to build our fence wall; and your Coast. Frankly, anything short of this is unacceptable.
hand is being twisted to consider triple bunk beds... And you realize then
that relationships that should be give-and-take have become a give, give, So if this article has excited you, tickled you, provoked you, put you in a
give till you collapse situation, or in the case of our School – take, take, take pensive mood, or even just irritated the hell out of you, enough to think
and be overcrowded and overburdened! differently about your collaboration with our School, then our objective
has been duly achieved.
But the beauty of age is that it often comes with maturity, and being pushed
to the wall eventually brings clarity and courage. And with maturity comes Floreat Wey Gey Hey!!
moments of reflection and introspection that leads to the conclusion that
some relationships and partnerships and so called alliances have become WGHS Class of 1996
rather...toxic, and detrimental to our well-being; to our standard of living Proud Standard-Bearers
and standards as a whole; to our traditions and our way of life (la cosa
nostra!). That perhaps, it is time for all stakeholders to ask not what Wesley
Girls’ High School can do for us, but what we can do for Wey Gey Hey!

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