2011 Request for Advice on Selecting Secondary Schools

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VitoRelax:

Augmum:

[quote=\"VitoRelax\"]Their Office/Admin staff are also the worst I have encountered.

I called the Office to check, the girl there have totally zero PR. She was just rude and took my number & told me she will check & get back to me.

dun mean to add oil to it.....
i, personally encountered bad and rude attitude from NJC's admin.
i had called them twice, one was to enquire if they do provide schoolbus services.....
and their reply i had gotten was :shock: :slapshead: :mad:
they really have to improve on their front office......

Think someone must feedback this to Virginia Cheng ...[/quote]Vito, since yr child is there, did u ever feedback to them ??

[phankao]

Augmum:

oh....what have u heard ?? :? .

Only read here on this very forum, leh. On the DSA thread, I recall.

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VitoRelax:

phankao:

Thankfully I've not had any need to deal with the office staff. I heard DHS office staff also not that great.

Hmmm ... maybe that is the standard of School Office Staff in Spore ? :frustrated:

haha......what abt independent schools' admin staff, are they better trained??

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phankao:

Augmum:

oh....what have u heard ?? :? .

Only read here on this very forum, leh. On the DSA thread, I recall.

oh.....u mean at the DSA thread.....i c...
oh yes, u replied to me before, but i scanned thru few pages back din manage to read it.
hopefully is juz some isolated cases, and not more....

[phankao]

Augmum:

phankao:

[quote=\"Augmum\"]
oh....what have u heard ?? :? .

Only read here on this very forum, leh. On the DSA thread, I recall.

oh.....u mean at the DSA thread.....i c...
oh yes, u replied to me before, but i scanned thru few pages back din manage to read it.
hopefully is juz some isolated cases, and not more....[/quote]too many pages there! I don't dare search! It was some parents who visited the school and at the office. Nothing to do with me lah.

[VitoRelax]

Augmum:

Vito, since yr child is there, did u ever feedback to them ??

Didn't leh, I nearly wanted to during the Breakfast with Principal session.

But then, I paiseh people may think I too petty so I decided against bringing it up to her ...

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phankao:

Augmum:

[quote=\"phankao\"]
oh.....u mean at the DSA thread.....i c...
oh yes, u replied to me before, but i scanned thru few pages back din manage to read it.
hopefully is juz some isolated cases, and not more....

too many pages there! I don't dare search! It was some parents who visited the school and at the office. Nothing to do with me lah.

[/quote]it's ok....dun need to plough thru....
anyway, even it is, i dun deal with the admin now....
if there's any problems can contact FT or subj teachers directly.... :evil:

[phankao]

VitoRelax:

Augmum:

[quote=\"VitoRelax\"]Their Office/Admin staff are also the worst I have encountered.

I called the Office to check, the girl there have totally zero PR. She was just rude and took my number & told me she will check & get back to me.

dun mean to add oil to it.....
i, personally encountered bad and rude attitude from NJC's admin.
i had called them twice, one was to enquire if they do provide schoolbus services.....
and their reply i had gotten was :shock: :slapshead: :mad:
they really have to improve on their front office......

Think someone must feedback this to Virginia Cheng ...[/quote]I'm thinking back - really not had any encounter with office staff. Only emailed them before - replies either very prompt within that morning(bc they directed to relevant personnel), or within 2 days if reply comes directly from office admin.

I've had more contact with the boarding office staff bc my boy had taken leave quite a few times. No problem getting clearance from Teacher-in-charge for special leave .... do you know that in boarding, if you speak to the teacher-in-charge, he/she can sign forms on your behalf? LOL. But not without clearing with you first lah. And my boy took MC a few times too lah. So the boarding office staff also know him and me quite well already. *faint*.

Am impressed with his PMs(personal mentors - aka form teachers) who drove him home from camp when sick. His current year's PM also always replies my emails promptly.

So I don't have any need to deal with the office. I think if I do receive a call or SMS like that from the office, I'd forward an email to the PM or VP to deal with it!!! I think much faster service!

So the few times I've seen Mrs Cheng - I don't have complaints of this nature to feedback to her, leh.

VitoRelax, you write an email to her to feedback, lor.

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VitoRelax:

Augmum:

Vito, since yr child is there, did u ever feedback to them ??

Didn't leh, I nearly wanted to during the Breakfast with Principal session.

But then, I paiseh people may think I too petty so I decided against bringing it up to her ...

no need to be paiseh lah, juz bring out during a casual talk....
believe the P understands yr good intentions of alerting her abt it.

[phankao]

Augmum:

it's ok....dun need to plough thru....
anyway, even it is, i dun deal with the admin now....
if there's any problems can contact FT or subj teachers directly.... :evil:

Yah lor - that's what I do too. Even when my son needed form signed by P/VP, he did it himself, none of my biz.