Compulsory Overseas Trip

[nani]

daisyt:

Agree with mrswongtution, its not an easy task for the teachers. Don't talk about overseas, I have a teacher friend, already feel so stress up when bringing the kids to NDP. After they reach school, the teachers cannot leave the school until all parents picked up the children. By the time she left school, its about midnight. The most ridiculous thing she told me was, one parent, actually forgot had to pick up the child at a certain time. When she called the parent, she was sleeping. :shock: If its not she told me, I won't believe such story lor. :lol: :!:


Anyway, I am not against such system. So far, I have not come across any compulsory camps or trips for my dd. The schools would leave it to the parents to decide.

Lucky you

[corneyAmber]

I am with nani in this matter as I know how compulsory some schools can make things. I do hope she has a place to air her feedback that trips should be made optional. I am not sure if moe advocate that, my gutfeel is school chooses to be so so that the trip can happen. Without the numbers they may not get subsidy approval or the trip cannot happen. All these are logistics issues to me and parents should not be made to feel obliged to let the little ones fly out of the nest when they are not ready. And all these talk about doing anything also have danger is really unnecessary because who does not know that. Not all children are ready at the same pace so we should try to use lesser of our yardstick but listen clearly to the cries of compulsion enforced when people are not ready. Also, I don't think we should pounce on homeschooling just because there is a flaw in the system. Did we go to school to learn compliance or negotiation? My benefit was the latter. I give credit to a SG education despite it being very stressful at times.


Nani, constructively I would check with a few mums of the cohort and request a meeting w the p to sound the concern. The objective is really to make him or her understand that it is not appropriate to make such trips compulsory. Over here, the age group of children are diverse and even if there is agreement, there is little impact on your school if your school p refuses. I hv recently walked into my p's office to clarify something and at least I see a clear circular being issued now.

Hope this helps.

Today is everybody's birthday, wishing all a happy birthday!

[csc]

[quote]Not all children are ready at the same pace so we should try to use lesser of our yardstick but listen clearly to the cries of compulsion enforced when people are not ready[/quote]
Sometimes, the children are actually ready. The parents are the ones who are not ready emotionally and mentally and this led them to think that their children are not ready too.

:lol:

[corneyAmber]

csc:

[quote]Not all children are ready at the same pace so we should try to use lesser of our yardstick but listen clearly to the cries of compulsion enforced when people are not ready

Sometimes, the children are actually ready. The parents are the ones who are not ready emotionally and mentally and this led them to think that their children are not ready too.

:lol:[/quote]True buddy but......
actually if we go granular, this is considered not ready. We do not exist alone and there should be some give and take within the family. Of course if parents 'imprison' the child for prolonged period then this is deemed abnormal. As long as done within reasonableness I would give parents the leeway to make their own judgement call.

[nani]

ks2me:

csc:

[quote]Not all children are ready at the same pace so we should try to use lesser of our yardstick but listen clearly to the cries of compulsion enforced when people are not ready

Sometimes, the children are actually ready. The parents are the ones who are not ready emotionally and mentally and this led them to think that their children are not ready too.

:lol:

True buddy but......
actually if we go granular, this is considered not ready. We do not exist alone and there should be some give and take within the family. Of course if parents 'imprison' the child for prolonged period then this is deemed abnormal. As long as done within reasonableness I would give parents the leeway to make their own judgement call.[/quote]“Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.”- Pope Paul VI

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” - Cardinal Mermillod