Outrage over kindergarten's 'tuition' classes

[limlim]

LOLMum:

I wonder who is taking the lead now.


Is tuition centre trying to catch up with school or school trying to catch up with tuition centre.

The school is expecting the tuition centers to do the school's job..

[laughingcat]

At the end of the day…who cares. Only parents care and responsibilities just fall back on parents. Might as well make do with the system. Accept it and move on. At least makes life simplier and less stress. Keep complianing on the system won’t even help current situation. Afterall should the policy do change, it will takes yeeeeeaaarrsssssss.

[Chenonceau]

laughingcat:

At the end of the day.....who cares. Only parents care and responsibilities just fall back on parents. Might as well make do with the system. Accept it and move on. At least makes life simplier and less stress. Keep complianing on the system won't even help current situation. Afterall should the policy do change, it will takes yeeeeeaaarrsssssss.

Yeah lor.... :sad: Sianzzzzzzzz

[concern2]

Chenonceau:

laughingcat:

At the end of the day.....who cares. Only parents care and responsibilities just fall back on parents. Might as well make do with the system. Accept it and move on. At least makes life simplier and less stress. Keep complianing on the system won't even help current situation. Afterall should the policy do change, it will takes yeeeeeaaarrsssssss.

Yeah lor.... :sad: Sianzzzzzzzz

And to think that this problem isn't exclusive to our country and gets worse as countries develop. It takes each and everyone one's will and wisdom to make any change possible. And that is like 愚公移山.

[laughingcat]

concern2:

And to think that this problem isn't exclusive to our country and gets worse as countries develop. It takes each and everyone one's will and wisdom to make any change possible. And that is like 愚公移山.

You are correct that this problem isn't exclusive to our own. There is PISA grading for countries to participate. For years, countries wondering why SGP always top in mathematics and science. In order to learn, leverage and tap on SGP way of teaching mathematics, countries approached SGP and we lend our expertise by going abroad to teach. These folks are people like Marshall Cavendish (together with ministers lah) and they are proud to said that they have covered 5 continents and countries like Saudi, part of USA states etc are adopting My Pals mathematics textbooks.

What i would really like is......are SGP teachers exposed to such learning like the overseas counterpart?

[buds]

Nebbermind:

firefly38:

If you have been following other ''rather similar'' threads (which i believe you have), you would have noticed, by now, that it has always been the very same ''righteous'' & ''noble'' few, who are ever cynical, critical and anti-everything about the s'pore's education system (GEP, SAP, PSLE, IP etc.. you name it, they ''anti-'' it)! And many of them do write extremely well too, which explains why they could coach their kids themselves, and hence do not understand why other parents could not do so!

Now I understand why I was specifically highlighted somewhere else. :evil:

Why?
Which one refers to you?

The \"been following other similar threads\" wan or the \"write extremely well\" wan? :evil:

[buds]

laughingcat:

At the end of the day.....who cares. Only parents care and responsibilities just fall back on parents. Might as well make do with the system. Accept it and move on. At least makes life simplier and less stress. Keep complianing on the system won't even help current situation. Afterall should the policy do change, it will takes yeeeeeaaarrsssssss.

I'm an educator too. I care. :please:
I have many educator frenz who care too.
We care enough to zoom in on whom we observe
need more help.. we explain things in a different way
should one way not work.. we share often with parents on
their children's weak areas & successes (no matter how small)
and partner them so we can overcome any challenges together so
the children will never be left behind.. in short, our doors are always
open and our hearts are always there... in the right place... where they
rightly belong.

There ARE still many good educators around. Even if we do get the \"off\" ones
once or twice, it doesn't mean there are no longer good ones around. There are.. :love:

[autumnbronze]

buds:

laughingcat:

At the end of the day.....who cares. Only parents care and responsibilities just fall back on parents. Might as well make do with the system. Accept it and move on. At least makes life simplier and less stress. Keep complianing on the system won't even help current situation. Afterall should the policy do change, it will takes yeeeeeaaarrsssssss.

I'm an educator too. I care. :please:
I have many educator frenz who care too.
We care enough to zoom in on whom we observe
need more help.. we explain things in a different way
should one way not work.. we share often with parents on
their children's weak areas & successes (no matter how small)
and partner them so we can overcome any challenges together so
the children will never be left behind.. in short, our doors are always
open and our hearts are always there... in the right place... where they
rightly belong.

There ARE still many good educators around. Even if we do get the \"off\" one
once or twice, it doesn't mean there are no longer good ones around. There are.. :love:

:hi5: sista!!

[phtthp]

what are the kids learning everyday, inside the 4 hrs PCF Teck Ghee kindergarten ?

why can’t they teach "P1 preparatory" content inside these 4 hrs everyday ? Then what are the parents paying them monthly for ?

[DesertWind]

Massive headache trying to read through this thread. Very emo. some too.

For me, boy-boy's kindy teacher told me to teach him phonics because he seems not to know. Lump of stress right now in my throat, gotta go buy phonics CD and book and will try to revise with him....that is...if I do not vomit blood first.

Moi definitely not one of those \"noble ones\" whoever this refers to. Yup, I am trying to teach my boy-boy at home (due to the bo-pian-see he needs one-to-one). So I am not sending him to phonics classes (due to no time and no-one to send him since I FTWM).

Gotta make do with our current educational system....yes...definitely for me...yes. Time and tide wait for no man, by the time we finished debating, probably my boy-boy already grown up liow.

But I very much appreciate the sharing by experienced mummies who have been there and done that. Learnt a lot from them although I must admit I may not necessarily understand since I have not gone down the same paths.

Cheers all!

[PS: to be fair to my boy-boy's kindy teacher, I must say I actually ASKED her whether is there anything that we can do at home to help my boy anything she feels he does not know? So she told me phonics. :sick: So I guess I deserve it. ]