[PSLE MT] PSLE less weightage in Chinese / Mother Tongue

[HyperKiasu]

verykiasu, vlim and Tnsp,


thanks for ur reply.
my ds is in neither SAP nor Huayguan. Years ago we did attempt to make a campus tour at a nearby Huayguan school but were immediately turned off by its location: there are quite a number of FACTORIES around the school. so we chose a neighbourhood school whose academic performances in some years are slightly better than that huayguan school.

my hubby said: we can be the role model if we want our kids to be filial to us, better than being taught....

but i think that is far from enough....if my kids are soaked in enviornment of things like \"弟子规\", they would become more chinese than chinese in china....

sigh, 一步错....

:stupid:

[tankee]

HyperKiasu:

....if my kids are soaked in enviornment of things like \"弟子规\", they would become more chinese than chinese in china....

why? :?

[verykiasu2010]

I think "弟子规" is available in some book shops…but doing it alone is not as fun as doing it in school with everyone reciting it together…and when you see the kids in school bowing to every teachers … and coming home relating the "弟子规" to daily living at home, … I say, wow, this is education 学做人, not blind academic pursuit 读死书

[HyperKiasu]

verykiasu2010:

I think \"弟子规\" is available in some book shops....but doing it alone is not as fun as doing it in school with everyone reciting it together......and when you see the kids in school bowing to every teachers ..... and coming home relating the \"弟子规\" to daily living at home, ..... I say, wow, this is education 学做人, not blind academic pursuit 读死书

agree.
in addition, many kids are more obedient to teachers than to parents, thus will 学做人 better from school...

[HyperKiasu]

tankee:

HyperKiasu:

....if my kids are soaked in enviornment of things like \"弟子规\", they would become more chinese than chinese in china....

why? :?

heard in china, chinese curriculum are very political....exposures to tradition/value/culture are not so early as in P1....their priority is to let kids love the coutry love the communist party... :love:

[verykiasu2010]

HyperKiasu:

heard in china, chinese curriculum are very political....exposures to tradition/value/culture are not so early as in P1....their priority is to let kids love the coutry love the communist party... :love:

that is nationalism from primary onward ..... country / party above self......

the cultural revolution wiped out the morals, like what we see these days, anything is ok - just make sure you are not caught !
除了杀人放火,什么都行!

[HyperKiasu]

verykiasu2010:

that is nationalism from primary onward ..... country / party above self......


the cultural revolution wiped out the morals, like what we see these days, anything is ok - just make sure you are not caught !
除了杀人放火,什么都行!

yes, 社会上每个细胞都被poisoned.

\"less teaching more learning\" in china means: the teacher will leave those untaught syllabus to the enrichment program/tuition centre.
the enrichment program / tuition centre are run by teachers themselves!!!

but situation is improved now.... after too many complaints, now tuition centres are banned if run by school teachers...(duno whether is true)

[verykiasu2010]

sound similar in singapore


heard - don’t know true or not - some GEP sec sch ask the kids where they take tuition, what they were taught - and school teachers take the easy way out…

not suggesting that the teachers are the ones running the tuition centre

BUT, there are many teachers from the ‘elite’ school after making themselves well known, decide to set up their own tuition centre …can’t fault them i guess…change of business model

[ruyu]

:offtopic:

[verykiasu2010]

ruyu:

:offtopic:

not entirely

we are still taking about MT