Whatever the medium, the need to vent one’s frustrations remains. Students will always need ways to suck it up, have a good laugh, and soldier on.

With Singapore’s education system being the pressure cooker that it is, if such school meme accounts can help kids to remain sane, why the hell not?

After all, how can one rely on student councils to genuinely be “the voice of students” when they are co-opted by the school? I know best, as someone who used to be a prefect in secondary school.

Once, we rallied against the merger of our prefectorial board with another student leadership group to form a student council, but our efforts were suppressed, and we were rebuked by the school management. Unhappy as we were, we had to suck it up and toe the line.

This is why it heartens me to see such organic, ground-up accounts mushrooming across schools. It shows that kids are not as apathetic as we think. Through social media, they are now finding creative ways to resist authority.

That said, these kids need to remain responsible with what they post, and not stoop to personal attacks. This would be akin to cyber-bullying, and we shouldn’t encourage it.

Yet if such meme accounts are anything to go by, it bodes well for our future to have a more vocal generation; one willing to speak up on things they are unsatisfied with, fight for change, and make a difference.

The days where respect and deference built on the mere basis of fear and authority are over. Now, it has to be earned.

So kudos to you all, kids.