Pre-school fees
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Yes, they are sponges at this age. That doesnāt mean they only learn at the pre-school. They can learn at home or via other enrichment classes. I am sure the kiasuparent in you will still send your kid to an expensive enrichment centre even though his pre-school is already very expensive right? Then just save on the pre-school lor. Not all cheap schools are bad and not all expensive schools are great. You could just be paying for branding and high overheads.
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cherrygal:
Yes, they are sponges at this age. That doesn't mean they only learn at the pre-school. They can learn at home or via other enrichment classes. I am sure the kiasuparent in you will still send your kid to an expensive enrichment centre even though his pre-school is already very expensive right? Then just save on the pre-school lor. Not all cheap schools are bad and not all expensive schools are great. You could just be paying for branding and high overheads.
:goodpost: I totally agree. In primary school, those who attend expensive pre schools may not be those who do extremely well. Some in fact gets culture shock in primary school system. So far do not come across clear correlation of pre school attended and primary school results. I also recommend the parents to save the money for the expensive tuition needed for weak subjects in primary school :evil: :moneyflies: -
Just a spark that went through my mind just nowā¦
Come to think of it, we each have our destiny. Fate decreed that I would become a SAHM earning little or no money even after getting a degree, and getting good scores at school. At our age, it doesnāt matter any more which school we came from and what results we got.
Whether you become a scholar or a lawyer in future actually depends on:
1. your genes
2. your aptitude (IQ, learning ability, knowledge)
3. your attitude (hardworking, drive, passion etc)
4. EQ (which determines if you are liked by teachers, bosses etc)
5. The home environment (values system, financial ability to send u for further studies etc)
6. luck or as some put it, divine intervention
and many other factors
An expensive pre-school / good pri school can only help a little in No.2 where they may expose the kid to more diverse info or have better teachers to guide the kids. -
Hey Cherrygal,
no leh, I dun have the resources (aka $$$) to pay for enrichment, so I depend SOLELY on the pre school and so far, the preschool has done their job in teaching (at least I believe so :xedfingers: ). the pre school is not even branded leh. although it is montessori.
I believe in montessori education for long term education. even primary schools now also adapt montessori teaching (discreetly, they dun openly decalre that they use montessori method, because to MOE, montessori method is unorthodox! haha). some of those maths teaching method that you see in lower primary are montessori method. -
I am not familiar with the montessori methodā¦ is there any clear distinction between theirs and other pre-schools? I am getting worried about my younger boy as he doesn;t seem to be speaking well and still canāt get certain consonents right at his ageā¦ and he has just turned 4! But the teachers kept telling me its normal that some develop their mastery over speech and pronunciation at a later age.
Am wondering if I should switch him to another school to see got any difference or not as I think they focus too muchy on playingā¦ -
some montessori schools are just using the name MONTESSORI as selling point to promote their schools to bring in more students. some uses montessori method, but maybe out of 3 hours, only 30 mins focus on montessori. its very rare to find an 'authentic' montessori pre school, as pure montessori method is very 'hard' to teach.
in summary, usually, usually only har, montessori graduates are often very good in maths and english. especially for maths because the students see, do and remember.
Maybe buds can tell you more as she is a montessori teacher. -
Smurf,
All your kids went to montessori or is this the first time you trying? Any difference between your kids? (supposing your older boy went to a normal pre-school) -
my p1 went to a church kindergarten. english very strong, but chinese very weak. math ok. only single digit addition and substraction, no multiplication at all. no spelling and no tingxie.
they sing songs, play and do simple academical stuff. I thin most church kindergartens dun focus much on academic. more on moral values and of course, religion values (but also not very intense). before meal time, say prayer, the songs sang are mostly all about church one.
but most children enjoy church kindergarten schools (except my p1, i dunno why, never enjoy schoolā¦hahaā¦maybe, school = work??). -
I totally understand your frustration. My sonās childcare centre also rejects him if he has one ulcer. The doc told me HFMD diagnosis is fever first, then have at least 5 ulcers. So, if your gal only has an ulcer but no fever, then itās not HFMD. My son had HFMD before so I can vouch that the fever came first, with the ulcers only appearing a day later. The centre should be watching for fever, not just ulcers coz sometimes, we get ulcers from biting our lips when eating too quickly.
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My daughter doesnt have any fever at all. The in-charge and teachers simply dun have even basic knowledge of HFMD symptoms. They just replied to you that they are not medical trained, that is.
Iām transferring my kids to Nurture Star where the in-charge told me that they will not do such things and will view by case by case basis.
I totally agreed with you. Even when i bring this up to MCYS, they replied that the school is following MCYS guidelines and MCYS guidelines are derived by MOH medical specialist. I was wondering, the PD that my kids visited is also a medical specialist too. MCYS doesnt dare to admit that there are loop holes in their guidelines which allowed the school to do such unreasonable things to the parents. Somemore can suggest to me that probably if my relationship is gd with the doc, the doc can charge me cheaper after subequent visit or i can bring my kids to see doc before gg to work which will not affect my work or can request from company to give me time off to bring my kids to see doc. What kind of reply is that?