A Letter from ST Forum

[tankee]

BlurBee:

:?

If the son doesn't understand mandarin, what is the purpose of learning Chinese?

To be ready to do business with China, the future economic powerhouse

[tankee]

hquek:

wahhhh, today is dandruff hair...everyone scratching head? :lol:

:rotflmao: good one !

[tankee]

lovekidsverymuch:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:

you are so fast ... :shock: :lol:

[auntieM]

tankee:

BlurBee:

:?

If the son doesn't understand mandarin, what is the purpose of learning Chinese?

To be ready to do business with China, the future economic powerhouse

To be ready to communicate with Chinese girls, and woo them....


soli...medicine time

[hquek]

tankee:

BlurBee:

:?

If the son doesn't understand mandarin, what is the purpose of learning Chinese?

To be ready to do business with China, the future economic powerhouse

Plus India also another powerhouse....wah lau eh....win already - cover both grounds. :imcool:

[corneyAmber]

auntieM:

Auntie/Uncle Amit Nagpal must wake up her idea..

I wonder if she is Singaporean? I know for sure she not KSP member though...
How is her DS going to deal with all this in school..

I suspect she's a PR, thinking that her blue IC can do wonders to her child, expecting the school to bend its principles just for the sake of her precious non-Chinese speaking son! :x

[corneyAmber]

auntieM:

If she does come to KSP at all than she won't be so 'ignorant' liao

:goodpost: I like that and I second that! :celebrate:

[corneyAmber]

auntieM:

I really KPO to find out more about the background.... maybe should go to MS school thread

What background do you want to find out? :? (Oops, :lol: more dandruff here? )

Nothing in the MS thread about this issue, but the fact is that MS is a SAP school and she's not a Chinese but yet decided to put her non-Chinese speaking son in a SAP school and only to complain later that the son cannot understand a word that the teacher is saying! Ridiculous parent in my opinion! :roll:

[corneyAmber]

BlurBee:

25hourmaid:

A few weeks ago, he came home crying because his new Chinese teacher refused to speak in English. It was made worse by the fact that my son had enjoyed learning Chinese in Primary 1.[/color]

:?
If the son doesn't understand mandarin, what is the purpose of learning Chinese?

somemore send to a SAP school! :roll:

[autumnbronze]

I have only gone through the link ... his letter lacks substantial details.


Anyway,

I suspect he is a PR too.

A local will not make a mockery of himself like that. I believe that he would def start his child from young (the kiasuisam aspect), if he intends his child to study mandarin in sch.

I also agree with one of the forummers here that its a matter of pride that is involved here - whose? the father or the son - you decide.

It seems to me, from the article, that he may be exaggerating the issue. It is impossible that the son did well in pri 1 and then claims not to understand what is going on in the following yr :? If our kids are struggling with the language, wouldn't we, as parents, regardless whether we are chinese or not, work with the sch/teachers to resolve the problem? Or engage in a pte tutor? I mean, we know the system rite, we will know what to do, or find out what we have to do, if we don't know. Why waste time writing a letter? What is his objective :?

Also, prior to sending his son to MS, he must have enrolled him in some enrichment classes ... plus most preschs teach mandarin as well. So its not like his son was thrown into the deep blue sea w/o knowing how to swim.

If the child is really having probs with the language, then sad to say the father has done a great disservice by putting him in a SAP school - he was being overly and overtly ambitious.

Oh, and he is also living in a glass house :roll:

My 2 cents ...