The Peer Support Programme and various thoughts associated with it

I thought that there would be a need to address this issue, but i had this weird feeling that this issue would only be fully worked out in the next council, which is the 28th council...

But anyway, treat this for the record ok?

This thing is about the Peer Support Programme, which from now on would be known here as the PSP (not the Playstation Portable, Thank You...)

Orientation is now officially over, and on our debrief, we question the purpose of the PSP in the orientation programme. It would take a really long time to explain about the PSP and the PSL and their primary purpose...
But to take the icing on the cake, the PSP is set up to give support to the sec 1 and become their mentor and their friend. Thus, also due to manpower shortages, they were included in the orientation programme to help out with us.

However, because of certain problems, such as lack of communications between the SC and the PSL, many problems had occured... And we had a sort of thrashing out of problems session there during the meeting...

I am here to outline my views on the situation:

Strengths of the PSP
For one thing, the PSP currently contains only Sec 2 members. As their role is to provide support to the Sec 1s which have just entered into our school, by making sure that the age gap between the two of them is as small as possible, effective communication can ensues. If the age gap was too big, like what is happening now in SC, as sc have all the levels in it, some things would not be talked about effectively.

For example, Sec 1s would have absolutely no idea what is Gunbound as Gunbound is now outdated in our school although it was an 'in' topic back in 2004 and for those who were in sec 4 in 2003, the 'in' topic might have been Magic: The Gathering... which not a lot of people really plays now (I play it)

And for another point, the other levels would be more busy with their studies. The sec 3s are finally stepping into hell where homework hill becomes homework mountain, and the sec 4s are facing the haunting which will change them into zombies, the O levels...

So the sec 2s are more free than us to take care of the sec 1s...

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And this leads into my greatest concern...
What will happen next year?

Ironically, the PSP greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. If the PSP becomes the SC model (with three levels) than it loses its purpose other than supplying the manpower that we may be short of at times of need...

If we let some sec 2s drop from the PSP when they enter sec 3 and recruit new sec 2s, it will suffer the same thing that it had gone through this year, where they find that they do not have enough seniors to learn from...

And the answers that we received during the meeting does not really provide a really good solution. If the sec 3s in PSL becomes their advisers, are they taking part in the things as well? Than if they don't take part, than won't the new sec 2s also be unable to learn from their seniors (if there is one in the first place...)

And than, we drop back into their purpose again. Is there a need for anyone to support the sec 1s after February. For one thing, most of the classes in previous batches are quite independent of the SC by the time they reach February, so will the PSP suffer the same fate as well, or will the PSP instead affect the progress at which the class bonds itself together...

So, lots of question but no answers...
I know i am a failure to not be able to provide an adequate answer to any of the question, but lets hope that these questions will ultimately be solved and that the PSP would not run into so much problems the next time around...

Discmon