Brilio.net - Facebook user, Anas Baihaqi, shared his unique experience as an internship mentor for the Office Administration Vocational School. When he wanted to teach students excel lessons, he was surprised because the children he taught did not understand.
Apparently, the third grade students majoring in Office Administration at the vocational school that he taught were not yet able to do their work properly. In fact, they were unable to complete basic calculations.
"I want to teach them simple Excel functions like SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, COUNTIF, etc. But when I tested them on simple arithmetic operations, they were still wrong. I asked them how much 6 + 8 is, they answered 12. I asked them how much the average value of 6 and 8 is, they answered they don't know. They said they don't like Mathematics," he wrote, quoted by brilio.net from Anas Baiqahi's Facebook on Sunday (6/10).
In fact, they should have mastered this knowledge well, considering that they come from the Office Administration department.
photo: Facebook/ Anas Baihaqi
Not only that, Anas tried to give the interns a test to spell correctly how the number 101,500 is pronounced in Latin. Apparently the students were still confused and stuttered.
photo: Facebook/ Anas Baihaqi
"Worse than that, I asked them to read the number 101,500 and they were still confused when reading it," he continued.
Still curious about the abilities of his interns, Anas continued to give other tests. Among them, assigning them to make a powerpoint presentation. He distributed topics to each child to present.
Anas did not forget to give directions to find the material on Google. However, the material he tested on the interns could not be completed properly. Instead, they wrote what was on Google into a book, then retyped the material into the computer.
photo: Facebook/ Anas Baihaqi
"Then I once assigned them to make a Powerpoint presentation according to the topic I gave. I gave each person a different topic. I told them to look for the material on Google. I waited until the next day but it was still not finished. It turned out that the way they worked was by opening articles on Google, writing down the material on blank paper with a pen, then they retyped the notes in Powerpoint," he wrote.
Not only lacking in administrative work, Anas felt that the interns lacked good work ethics. Anas often caught the interns putting their feet up on the table, dancing TikTok in the public service room, and even laughing loudly in the office lobby.
"They are often caught putting their feet up on the table, dancing Tik-Tok in the public service room, laughing loudly in the office lobby, lying on the floor of the work room, etc.," he continued.
With all the circumstances he experienced, Anas felt confused and frustrated in finding excellence from the interns he was in charge of.
"I was appointed as their mentor and was confused about what superior potential they had that could be developed and empowered," he concluded.
Anas' upload regarding teaching interns of the Administration Vocational School attracted quite a lot of attention from netizens. Some suggested calling their teachers instead.
"Ask the teacher to come and tell him what happened," wrote Erwin Dwijaya's account.
"From my observation, we can't expect them to 'already know' what to do and what not to do. So the instructions must be really detailed, and clear what is wrong and what is right. And control the instructions we give. Sometimes even though they are detailed, they are still skewed. And if it is related to manners, it is better to reprimand them directly. Tell them what is wrong and what is right. If not, once again, we can't expect other people to understand, lol," wrote the Gunny WK account.
"And it's not just the children who are doing internships there... there are still many others scattered across the archipelago," said the account Abdurrahman Saleh.