Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

[janet88]

it’s tough to be a parent now…regardless of the school (all schools are good schools, remember?). staffing is always a headache, especially since teachers are in big demand. a friend of mine has 2 daughters in this school…the form teacher is always on MC for one of them and the other daughter sees relief teachers constantly. tests and exams make everyone worry when teachers are missing and syllabus is not on track.


give the P time to work on the issue…btw, did P acknowledge the email? if there is, someone senior should be working on it.

[janet88]

dtck3004:

The thread in this forum should be secured with password and only parents of pei hwa parent networking group can access the information .

I think to have another layer of security (ie password) would mean that parents who wish to put their kids in pei hwa will not have a chance to find out more about the school...because they would be 'locked out'.

[phtthp]

janet_lee88:

dtck3004:

The thread in this forum should be secured with password and only parents of pei hwa parent networking group can access the information .

I think to have another layer of security (ie password) would mean that parents who wish to put their kids in pei hwa will not have a chance to find out more about the school...because they would be 'locked out'.

Once you implement compulsory password to login -
The Thread for other schools will follow suit.
Because the impact is -
other schools likewise can request for similar security.
Parents from other schools will question :-
\"Why pei hwa unique : have a password to login, ours don't have ?
Think we also better request for a password too, to login. \"

In the end,
Parents from school x cannot find out what's happening in other schools : say y, z etc - since info become \"out of bound\" to outsiders, if yr child not studying here.
Example : kindergarten parents who wish to pose questions to pei hwa primary seasoned parents, any concern regarding this school.
One such example was a kindergarten parent who asked in a few pages back about -
How to enter pei hwa primary : if he is a member from a Presbyterian church ? Is this sufficient, or need extra criteria to come in ? Then one helpful pei hwa parent replied this outsider parent that one need to be active, serving in a church ministry.

Information cannot be shared nor obtained, readily.
Is this the objective set up by chief for Ksp, in the first place ?
To limit, confine & to restrict sharing of info, within a small community only ?

When chief design this Ksp forum :-
not sure if he ever consider want to add in this security feature before for each school thread, or whether it is even feasible, because then chief has to find resources to do password maintenance, for each school thread.
Then if there is a need to change the password (in case other non pei hwa primary parents happen to know the password to login pei hwa thread server) - how are all the thousands of pei hwa parents from p1 to p6, to be notified, when there has been a change in password logon ?

[TravelMummy]

bgmum:

I am glad I got to know about the issue. My dd's class shares the same CL teacher as Respect 9 and I was just wondering why the CL teacher has been absent for sometime. Her class has a stand-in CL teacher from another class I think (based on what I managed to gather so far), but I'm not sure how long this arrangement would take. It will be good if the school can provide some updates soon. Would be more appropriate if the updates are provided through a formal channel like a circular to parents, so that we are not left in the dark or guessing (or relying on inputs from the kids which may or may not be accurate)...

This issue has been endemic for a while. It gets more worrisome when even kids at upper primary are affected. The details are hazy now but I remember being v concerned when term after term in p5, my kid keeps getting relief teachers for core subjects. Both my kids also experienced problems re the quality of teachers and had teachers who taught them factually wrong things. When she was P3, dd was told in class that a guppy is a mammal! :siao: :yikes: I couldn't believe my ears and verified with several of dd's classmates who unfortunately confirmed they heard the same thing too. DS and his schoolmates also confirmed that their English teacher at P5 taught them techniques that weren't supposed to be used in PSLE which they had tinu learn in P6. However, the one thing I must say is that PHPPS did roll out excellent teachers in P6 and ds received some of the best coaching ever, so I held my tongue.

[janet88]

pei hwa has churned out many kids who have done well…there are several teachers whom my son dearly remembers up till now though he is in sec 2.

hey, we are all here to share and be friends.

[Scary]

janet_lee88:

pei hwa has churned out many kids who have done well...there are several teachers whom my son dearly remembers up till now though he is in sec 2.

hey, we are all here to share and be friends.

My DS had good Chinese teachers in both P1 and P2. He misses his P2 Chinese teacher and I agree that there is no way his current Chinese teacher can match 80% of her commitment.

[janet88]

Scary:

janet_lee88:

pei hwa has churned out many kids who have done well...there are several teachers whom my son dearly remembers up till now though he is in sec 2.

hey, we are all here to share and be friends.

My DS had good Chinese teachers in both P1 and P2. He misses his P2 Chinese teacher and I agree that there is no way his current Chinese teacher can match 80% of her commitment.

my son's P4-6 Chinese teachers did wonders to get the class interested in their MT...in fact, the p5 male teacher went the extra mile to prepare 口试 notes for them, telling the class what to look out for.

[cool_hi]

embel:

If the email had been a complimentary one, thanking the school for the wonderful things the teachers had done, then perhaps no one would object, even though it is private?


In any case, if any post contravenes the terms and conditions of this forum, we trust that the relevant personnel/authorities would politely ask the forummer to take it down. For the rest of us parents, no one is above another, to intimidate and question another, his/her intentions for submitting a post; much less have the authority to tell those who feel intimidated to remain silent.
Given the longstanding lack of communication between school and parents, if parents shy away from sharing information or alerting other parents to what is happening in school, then we would have to work even harder to obtain such information.

:goodpost:

Hope some relevant REFLECTIONS, which have been long overdue,
is going on...
In fact, if there have been proper respect and proper mannerism(which majority of parents here do GRACIOUSLY observe actually),
there is totally no need for whatever security code!!
Just like for e.g.,u just need ONE bully to be in a school,
that is enough to make a school horrifying and torturous to attend..
You don't even need TWO!!

[cool_hi]

& would like to take this chance to express my sincere thanks to all parents who BRAVELY share their experiences+feedback here for past few days…


All the sharing is important to many parents considering Pei Hwa and also for existing parents(who may have registered their kids out of pure convenience)…
Cheers!!

[X_ist]

I cannot understand why you can harp on this matter for such a long time.

It seems to me that you are implying that a certain parent posted intimidating comments which is already taken down.

First of all, I am sure if the whole email is not posted in full, the response would have been totally different.
Moreover, personally I do not find it intimidating when one question another his intent of posting the whole email. I think he/she raised a valid point to be addressed.
However, I find you more intimidating to accuse someone of putting another down when it may not be in that intention.
You probably repeated the word gracious like a dozen times but seems to me that you are the ungracious one refusing to let go.

I am all for sharing, do it with ethics and I am sure no one will "attack", "put you down", "blow whistle" or whatever words you can think of…