Sixth E- Reflection

            The last MMSEL session of the old year remind me about my friend’s previous experience.  The story took place in my Senior High School. He was my best friend. From now on I will call him X, for his confidentiality. He was one of the most brilliant students in my class. He always submitted his homework on time, had outstanding achievement, and actively engaged during class discussion.

            After studying for about 4 months in the same class with him, I realized there was something different with X. Suddenly he became quiet person, stop participated in the class discussion, ignored his homework, and achieved bad scores. I tried to talk to him and asked whether he had a problem. He told me that everything went right and told me not to worry about him.

            Unfortunately however X’s condition was getting worse and worse. He became hot-tempered person, who got angry over small things. He also forgot things easily, and started to talk to himself. Everyone in my class began to realize about his changed behavior, including my homeroom teacher. Few days after, I heard he was called by the counseling teacher. I wondered about what happened to him, but since he did not say a thing I keep my curiosity.

            After being called by the counseling teacher X did not attend school for weeks. I noticed that X parents were also called to the school to talk with my homeroom and counseling teacher. Aftermath, my homeroom teacher told the class that there are some problems with X family, and he was under stress. So she asked us to cooperate with that condition and help X  to be relaxed in the school. When X came back to school after his long absent we tried to help him to adapt and catch up with the lesson. The moral value I could learn from this experience is that teacher and parents communication is a crucial thing. If teacher keep in contact with the parents, they could cooperate one to another to help student.