VI used to boast of capable student leaders. Students given the freehand to decide their own future and chart their own course in extra-curricular activities. Student themselves would be making the preparations, running the shows, carrying the responsibilities.
However, society really has changed, gone were those days. Activities carried in VI must now be accompanied by a school teacher. Parents would be required to sign letters discharging the liabilities of the school of the well being of their children. The school no longer wants to be blamed for things that happened to its students. Teachers were assigned instead, yet teachers also slacken in dutifully watch over the students when they have their activities. Honestly, they shouldn’t be blamed, they get paid peanuts and weren’t being paid to look after the students during their extra curricular activities.
Victoria Institution 