A Letter from ST Forum
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25hourmaid:
You mean there is exam at K2 level? :!:
Replying to the part in bold ....VitoRelax:
Somebody in Maris Stella, please tell this Amit Nagpal to fly kite lah !! Usually arrogant fellas expect everyone to bend rules for them .. !!
You know, when I was searching a Pri School for my girl, I saw my friend's 4 daughters all did so well. So, I also wanted my girl to goto that school. (At that time, didn't do much research lah). Since it is a good school & difficutt to get in, my DW & I started to do some volunteer work.
But later someone told me that school was a SAP school & I asked \"what is a SAP school ?\". When I realized what SAP school is, I know it is not gonna be easy for her (even though we are Chinese) so we look for another school despite clocking many hours. To me if she can cope with normal Chinese, I happy liao !!
I think you made a very wise choice and would say that you and your wife are smart parents. As parents, we know the limits our our own children and know very well what sort of environment would be suitable for our kids, but there are some parents, who only want the 'face status', die die also must send their child to a SAP school, as if SAP schools are the only schools that would be able to give quality education to their kids, only to have their child suffer later on in school.
When my boys were in kindergarten, there was this mum who insisted on sending her son to a SAP school even though he failed all his subjects at K2 level because \"such and such a school is a good school and it is pretigious for my son to study there\", but in the end, it was her poor son who was the one suffering at the \"such and such a good school!\" :roll: -
mummy of 2:
You mean there is exam at K2 level? :!:
Not to frighten you, yes, at the time when my boys were in kindgergarten, but don't know how things are done now since my boys are already in their teens. That's like donkeys years ago when they were in kindergarten! :lol:
We actually had a very similar system to the primary school, we had mid-year and year end exam and even had positions and prize giving ceremony at the end of the year etc, very similar to what is currently being done in some primary schools now, but the best part was my boys were very well prepared for P1.
Just to 'frighten' you a bit more, :lol: during my boys' time, their final year end exam has simple problem sums, cloze passages and comprehension! :lol: -
Blobbi:
... Oh uh, changing the subject to my favourtie topic, STICKY CHEWY CHOCOLATE!! :drool: The bad news is, I haven't had it yet, so you can imagine how I'm gonna be like afterwards!! *shudder*
I don't care what you have been (or will be) eating, Blobbi, but what you wrote is so sensible that it helped me detox my brain. :goodpost: -
lovekidsverymuch:
Phew what a relief otherwise I will be :slapshead:
:!: :!: thank goodness now no exams in K2 and also P1, P2 (most schools ) dont have exams25hourmaid:
Not to frighten you, yes, at the time when my boys were in kindgergarten, but don't know how things are done now since my boys are already in their teens. That's like donkeys years ago when they were in kindergarten! :lol:
Just to 'frighten' you a bit more, :lol: during my boys' time, their final year end exam has simple problem sums, cloze passages and comprehension! :lol:
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:lol: :lol: to younger parents like LKVM and mummy of 2, I would say your kids are luckier in the sense there is no exams for K1/K2 and P1/P2, but on the other hand, if I have to go through the system again, I still would prefer my kids to get a gist of what exams is about at that age. As I said, because of the exams, my boys were very well prepared for P1.
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Blobbi:
:goodpost: :goodpost: BlobbiChill, dearies. :grphug:
The key for getting along was and is mutual respect and trust. But when one group keeps slamming another group for imagined prejudices against themselves (even as they write that they \"don't feel it on a personal basis\"), for \"the discriminatory policies of the governement\" when, if we rub out eyes and take a look out the window, this place is teeming with foreigners, then we locals get resentful. Here we are, being very nice hosts, and our guests keep complaining that in other countries, the food is nicer. Or why their portion is one ikan bilis less. After a while, the host's smiling face will show some strain, like what's happening at the tail end of this thread. Then one more complaint, whether there is merit or not, is unlikely to be taken seriously.
I want to emphasize - mutual respect and trust. We're very genial hosts. When we cook and you eat, we don't mind constructive criticism cos we want to be better cooks. If you give objective examples like the differential in university fees between locals and PRs, that's clear for all to see. It's definitely food for thought. Even then, it's practically loose change, so please don't lose sleep over that. Clean air, high level of personal safety, competitive educational structure, efficient public services, good employment opportunities are available to all here - no extra charge of course. But if you compare us unfavourably with free university education in a debt ridden, high tax country when much of the world has given up that crazy, unsustainable policy, then that's spitting in our face. All we're asking for is ... some consideration.
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25hourmaid:
:lol: :lol: to younger parents like LKVM and mummy of 2, I would say your kids are luckier in the sense there is no exams for K1/K2 and P1/P2, but on the other hand, if I have to go through the system again, I still would prefer my kids to get a gist of what exams is about at that age. As I said, because of the exams, my boys were very well prepared for P1.
I would prefer to let my kids enjoy thier childhood a little longer. In my days, exams were no big deal so no stress at all, until we got to a certain level ie PSLE. Now it's like the kids must do well for every single exam. So stressful for the kids (and parents)
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Unfortunately, this is how the system is for our kids nowadays!
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Yes, I remember my time too. I didn't know my ABCs till I was in Primary 1 and shapes and such were not taught till I was in Primary 1 too.
Oh yes, I didn't know a word of English too when I entered Primary 1, but my teachers never had to use dialects to explain things to us, we simply managed, that's why I cannot understand why some non-Chinese insist on sending their kids to a SAP school and insisting that the teacher speak to the child in English in order to make the child understand! :slapshead:
The SG govt/education system does not owe anybody anything, the system is there, one just has to strive for the best results. -
lovekidsverymuch:
I agree with you but then also imagine sometimes the fear of exams are so much on kids or rather on parents that there can be some nervousness and with such a small kids its not fair for them to go thru all this.. though I know the system is such that there will be exams moving ahead but maybe by that time they r matured enuf to understand wat exams mean :?
As a mother, I was never really stressed up over exams and exam results and neither were my boys and yet, they have performed above average all these years. -
I think whatever my P2 dd learn now is much more than what I had in my P4-5. :stupid:
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