[Fun Poll] How satisfied are u with ur child(ren) results?

[Busymom]

auntieM:

auntieM:

Is this consider boo-boo question?

My answer would be 'guitar', but that is only one item..
Or my eyes playing tricks on me.. :razz:

Paiseh.. So stone de..
Better don't let me DS read that.. :faint:

No worries. We are wiser in other things than in P1 Math...

[buds]

To not go :offtopic: I hereby vote for - \"Happy, better than expected..\" :love: For without tuition, hey DD1 didn't fail. Phew!


Later evening will see DD2's report.

[buds]

Busymom:

auntieM:

[quote=\"auntieM\"]Is this consider boo-boo question?

My answer would be 'guitar', but that is only one item..
Or my eyes playing tricks on me.. :razz:

Paiseh.. So stone de..
Better don't let me DS read that.. :faint:

No worries. We are wiser in other things than in P1 Math... [/quote]Hear hear! :celebrate:

[Busymom]

Chenonceau:

Busymom:

The school apparently gave back the 2 marks that we thought DD lost due to carelessness... got such things? :?


Anyway, the question was

Aminah bought two of the items shown below. She had $9 left after paying $50 to the cashier. Which 2 items did she buy?

Teddy Bear - $27
Ragdoll - $23
Guitar - $41
Toy car - $14
Toy truck - $17

What would be your answer? :evil:

The TEACHER was careless? **Gasp** :yikes:

We should cane the teacher... :evil: :rotflmao:

On hindsight, I realised maybe the teacher was indeed half careless... but I was no better too. Didn't even catch...

[Busymom]

buds:

Pen88n, I thought it was :evil: enuff to see Chen's proposed caning of teachers... but your proposal for canning careless teachers is way more sadistic.


:rotflmao:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[autumnbronze]

buds:

Pen88n, I thought it was :evil: enuff to see Chen's proposed caning of teachers... but your proposal for canning careless teachers is way more sadistic.


:rotflmao:

Self confessed KPO reading this thread .....

Above comment hilarious leh .... :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[Busymom]

ZacK:

raynreg:

My attempt 50-9=41. She bought teddy bear 27 and toy car 14. Did I get the 2 marks :oops:

I thot so too.. So anything wrong with the question? :?

I also thought that must be the way to work out the answer at first glance and said to DD, ah, you didn't minus off $9 from $50 first?

[Busymom]

buds:

Busymom:

The school apparently gave back the 2 marks that we thought DD lost due to carelessness... got such things? :?


Anyway, the question was

Aminah bought two of the items shown below. She had $9 left after paying $50 to the cashier. Which 2 items did she buy?

Teddy Bear - $27
Ragdoll - $23
Guitar - $41
Toy car - $14
Toy truck - $17

What would be your answer? :evil:

Babe, whaddya mean when you said you thought DD lost due to carelessness?

a. DD got the answer correct but was marked wrong and u didn't dispute it?

b. There was typo error in the initial question which the teacher eventually admitted was due to her oversight?

c. Parents didn't get to see marked papers yet but when it was returned, you realized DD scored 2 more than what she initially told you then realized 2 marks were given back to DD for that particular question?

A bit of all of the above. DD told me she lost 2 marks due to carelessness. That night, saw the paper and agreed that she was careless as her answer was teddy bear and ragdoll. She forgot or didn't really take note of the $9 in the question.

Next day, she said she got back 2 marks. I was like, huh? How to get back 2 marks when the \"answers\" were wrong (actually, only 1 answer was wrong as the teacher wrote Teddy Bear and Toy Car, but mummy here also didn't see... :roll: ). But as the paper was returned back to school already, I was left scratching my head about the whole thing until we got back the holistic assessment file yesterday. DD really got back her 2 marks, as she said. The teacher cancelled the part that she marked wrong and added back the 2 marks...

[Busymom]

raynreg:

:scratchhead: Teddy bear and Ragdoll? Aminah has $59 at first? :nailbite:

That why, I also wonder...

[Chenonceau]

buds:

Actually Chenonceau, truth be told that I already wrote a few excuse letters early this year to exempt DD1 from certain supplementary classes n what nots plus for the sake of the children (so tt they can really BE the children they are!) please DO NOT GIVE a mountain of homework to be submitted the following day after an already loooonng day of sch n supplementary lessons! I mean my girl gets up at 5:30am daily to catch the bus n reaches home by 4pm! Still gotta do homework like 2-3 assignments from all subject teachers!?! :siao: Ohhh.. you bet I said my piece! I ended the love letter with... My child not only has less time to sleep, rest or do relaxing stuff she enjoys to give herself a break like drawing n reading but in short, she honestly doesn't even have time to be a kid. I toned down at the final ps.. hoping you can look into it.


Harsh, ya think?

All the kids in her level benefitted from that one love note cause apparently she (DD1's form yeacher) was the level head :yikes: ... I swear I didn't know since we just started in this school only this year (transfer student)...

So, i received a follow-up call after a couple of days with positive renewed implementations to homework-giving... that there was never gonna be more than two assignments a day and if two language assignments were doled out, they would not both be a composition assignment.

:imanangel:

Wow... that's a great way of going about it. I just did what I could for my DS. I didn't know if the other kids benefitted.

Same like you. No supplementary. In fact, no need to even go to school sometimes.

This week, he isn't in school at all. We're leaving soon on hols and his Chinese still needs work. He's so sweet. Woke up at 6am. Jogged. Had breakfast. Then went about processing FOUR China model compos. Was all done by 11.30. Right now he's getting in some Chinese compre practices on the lunch tray on my bed (with air con). After 3pm, he'll get to play... and he would have internalized as much Chinese in one day as it takes the school about 6 months to teach without getting too tired and over bored.

The English Teacher called up to yesterday to ask if he would be attending the prize-giving ceremony at the end of the week and I said \"no\". We're taking off this whole week. By now, his Teachers are used to his absences. And we're all on sufficiently good terms that she and I chatted for a bit. She too pities our children. Her DS went through PSLE this year and she was worried because she (being a Teacher) had very little time to help her own DS. We both lamented that our kids dun have time to be kids.