There are two big doors that you need to identify yourself to the guard in order to enter. Then you have to go through a hallway full of CCTVs and get on an elevator where everything is recorded as well. After you get off the elevator, you have to find a correct room, open a thick metal door, pass through a small hall way and open another wooden door. This is a process which a normal person would have to undergo in order to enter a student’s room in our school.
According to the process above, individual’s dormitory room seems to be the most private place a student could have, probably out of his or her entire life. Sometimes the school limits even the parents in entering the dormitory, and the dormitory door is only open three times a day; when the students leave for school, when they come back for lunch, and when they come back from school. Apart from the entrance being locked, teachers make sure all of the doors of the rooms are locked once all of the students vacate their rooms. Some students even lock their drawers and cabinets; how can there be any place with more privacy in the world?
However, that isn’t the case. What I mean is, our dorm room, which seems to be one of the most private places in the world don’t always turn out to be so private. First of all, students are regularly checked by teachers and get punished when their rooms are dirty or if they are doing something else such as watching movies or playing games. Students have to mandatorily attend a roll call once a day, with teacher making sure there are no problems. Also, since three students share a room, despite the fact that all the desks, beds and drawers are separated, sometime it is inevitable to discover each other’s secrets. Not only the roommates, but most of the students know each other too well because they reside and interact with same people every day. If you put it this way there seems to be no place in the world with less privacy than our dorms.
The changes in our dormitory- such as installations and removals of CCTVs, changes in the frequency of the teacher’s check-ups- seem to be struggles between the students against the teachers and parents. However, I think the unchanging fact is that we, high school students, still need some cares and interruptions from adults even if we live independently. Privacy of individuals should be respected, but restriction of privacy shouldn’t always be considered unjust, depending on situations such as my private and public dormitory room.
This is a good article. But I think there needs to be a distinction between "privacy" and "security," a word which never appears in your writing. Privacy is a luxury, while security is a necessity. Can you have one without the other? The school has to balance this, and once in a while an incident occurs that tests a level of success. If someone wanted to steal a laptop at KMLA, or anything else for that matter, how difficult would it be? If a couple wanted to meet privately, how difficult would it be? If a student wanted to visit many rooms and steal money (this happened last year), how difficult would it be? Maybe it could be described as "easy" and "difficult."
답글삭제Good article!