Previously on RCHK Leeks (Part One):
RCHK STEM students have protested against the mistreatment and unhealthy working conditions of the exams. From the dim lights to the unstable desks, students have had enough. However, according to insider sources, these problems were still tolerable. Even though students wanted to rip their hair out because of the incessant rocking coming from the student behind them, they endured.
The exams weren’t done with them, though. These issues were not the worst – far from it.
You see, all Group 4 Science subjects require students to receive a data booklet when they sit the second paper. To many, it is the holy grail, holding valuable information that can bring them from a six to a seven. However, these data booklets are old. Very old. Crusty.
Used by many, their condition deteriorates after multiple years; pages get crumpled, with suspicious liquids staining the valuable pages. While students cry for salvation from the yellowing pages, the science department continues to insist upon the slogan “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.”
Fortunately, stacks of data booklets have been demolished by the local glutton, who decided that salad alone was not enough to satisfy their hunger. Another cryptic note was left behind by the glutton, which read “paper yum. salad bad. no salad.”
The science teachers cried over the remnants of their data booklets, though eyewitness reports state that even the teachers were unsure whether they were actually the booklets, or simply the ashy precipitate of a HCl and NaOH neutralisation gone very, very wrong. Science students rejoiced in the Basement™, chanting in a circle with their eyes closed in a dark room.
“All hail our lord and saviour. All hail our lord, Glutton the Great.”
Such phrases were heard from passersby too afraid to approach the cla- Basement™.
The new data booklets printed by the technicians are a shining ray of hope for the hapless generation of science students. "It's a miracle," says our anonymous source, who couldn't believe that they would get to caress a non-crusty data booklet for emotional support during exams.
However, suspicions were raised by the disgruntled science teachers.
‘Was it the STEM students who let the local glutton in for their ploy?’
‘Why were they so happy about the helpless data booklets being devoured?’
‘I had to use the money on my own card to reprint some of them,’ a teacher says while a technician watches on in the background. ‘Who would possibly be happy about wasting someone’s money?’
Will Chief Economist Toe Chan’s initiatives of better security be successful, despite the possibility of accomplices within the school itself? Will justice and resource efficiency prevail in the face of dangers like surly teengers?
Only time will tell. And the Glutton, if they ever respond to our requests for comment.
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