SUBJECT:

School Social Networking Media

TO:

Principal of Republic Polytechnic

11 July 2011

Republic Polytechnic

9 Woodlands Avenue 9

Singapore 738964

Dear Sir or Madam,

Proposal to lift the ban of social networking websites in Republic Polytechnic.

I am Mohammad Azam Bin Berazam, student of Republic Polytechnic representing class E24F. We are aware about the recent ban of all social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and instant messaging clients such as MSN messenger in our school. This is our petition against this. Our reasons below:

Firstly, social networking is one of the ways where we can use for our presentations. There was once our facilitator asked us to present our presentation by using one of the social networks, Facebook. Also, facilitators are always expecting STA students to be more creative in our methods of presentations. So, social networking platforms are the way we can reach out and appeal to the masses. Therefore, these social networking websites and platforms give us a more exciting way of presenting our presentations.

Secondly, we use social networking as a form where we can pass each other the problems. Most of the days, we experience connection failure in the morning as too many people were using it at the same time. Therefore for those people who downloaded the problem of the day uses MSN to send the files to people who still having problem downloading the files instead of passing around the thumb drive.

On the other hand, we truly understand the purpose of banning the social network as it could distract to us while doing our daily assignment and when we are paying attention to our facilitators. However, these social networks would only distract the student if he or she allows it to be. These websites do not contribute to our daily grades and if the student does not perform well in class, the facilitator would have the right to grade us accordingly.

Therefore, we request and plead that the ban of social networking to be lifted but monitored.

Thank you for your consideration. We will really looking forward to your favourable response.

Sincerely,

Mohammad Azam & Classmates [E24F]