Criteria for a Good Student Care Service (BASC)
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Original Title: Child care centre responsiblity for children in BASC
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bolster:
Dear parents,
Please take note if you put yr kids in BASC:
1. If yr kid is stupid or slow, please engage tutor to help yr kid in schoolwork. Child care centre do not provide tutor service for BASC.
2. If yr kid declare no homework to the teacher in charge, please blame your kid, do not push all the blame to the teachers or centre.
3. If you are not happy with the centre, just quit and leave.
4. If you do not believe what the teacher complain about your kid, please bring your kid to other centres. It imply no trust on the teacher.
If you trust the school, please shut up and pay the school fee. DO NOT BLAME everything to the school.
The school accept feedback but pushing the blame to the teacher due to your kid laziness and stupidness is unacceptable.
Hi, Bolster,
What is BASC? Really I dont know the meaning. :roll: -
bolster:
Bolster you working at BASC (Before After School Care)?Dear parents,
Please take note if you put yr kids in BASC:
1. If yr kid is stupid or slow, please engage tutor to help yr kid in schoolwork. Child care centre do not provide tutor service for BASC.
2. If yr kid declare no homework to the teacher in charge, please blame your kid, do not push all the blame to the teachers or centre.
3. If you are not happy with the centre, just quit and leave.
4. If you do not believe what the teacher complain about your kid, please bring your kid to other centres. It imply no trust on the teacher.
If you trust the school, please shut up and pay the school fee. DO NOT BLAME everything to the school.
The school accept feedback but pushing the blame to the teacher due to your kid laziness and stupidness is unacceptable.
If so and you feel that the parents are unreasonable, I do believe that the centres have policies to ask the parent to withdraw their kid from the centre.
If you are the parent and these are the feedback from the centre (see bold), it clearly reflects the level (or lack of) of professionalism of the teacher and/or the inability of the centre in handling feedback (centre who claims they accept feedback but doesn't do so with an open mind are no better than those who does not accept feedback) from parents - you are better off with another centre.bolster:
Really...where is this BASC who claims they accept feedback, but are so ready to label their students as above?The school accept feedback but pushing the blame to the teacher due to your kid laziness and stupidness is unacceptable.
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san76:
Heyya san76,bolster:
Dear parents,
Please take note if you put yr kids in BASC:
1. If yr kid is stupid or slow, please engage tutor to help yr kid in schoolwork. Child care centre do not provide tutor service for BASC.
2. If yr kid declare no homework to the teacher in charge, please blame your kid, do not push all the blame to the teachers or centre.
3. If you are not happy with the centre, just quit and leave.
4. If you do not believe what the teacher complain about your kid, please bring your kid to other centres. It imply no trust on the teacher.
If you trust the school, please shut up and pay the school fee. DO NOT BLAME everything to the school.
The school accept feedback but pushing the blame to the teacher due to your kid laziness and stupidness is unacceptable.
Hi, Bolster,
What is BASC? Really I dont know the meaning. :roll:
BASC stands for Before After School Care.
These kinda centres provide care service
for mostly primary school students without
a reliable caregiver at home. The students
can come in before they start PM session,
when their parents drop them off at the
centres in the morning (on the way to work).
Or the children will be fetched by the BASC
teachers ( or walk to BASC if its very near
the school - for older children ) after AM
session to the centres from the primary
school upon dismissal.
BASC not only provides the care... or a place
where your child is looked after in the absence
of the parent, such centres also coach/assist
with child's schoolwork and on top of that (some
centres) may also offer tuition at reasonable rates.
A few centres offer optional enrichment pgrms as
well like IT, Creative Maths, Reading Programme,
Speech and Drama (etc) to parents as well.
Centres near our local pools and stadium facilities
sometimes offer that children pick up a sport like
badminton, swimming, (etc) which is again optional
and such extra curricular activities are allowed to be
done like once a week after completion of the tuition
hours + homework, to promote exercise other than
just school work - at a small fee with a qualified coach.
A good BASC will give parents the ease that the
child not only has lunch and tea break provided,
the school work also covered. Whatever rest provided
is really extra. Parents have other pairs of eyes helping
them watch over their kids in the absence of the care of
full-time working parent (especially when there is a neccesity
for the parents to stay employed). Parents can set their mind
at ease that they can spend better quality time with their child
at home, since the major care and school work has been
assisted by the BASC.
If parents have say 2 children, 1 in pre-school and 1 primary
school... there are also childcare centres that offer BASC as
well. They have separate classrooms for the BASC students
who will be cared for by BASC teachers ie. qualified staff to
teach/manage primary level subjects (ala tutors) and the didi
or mei-mei will be with the childcare teachers in the main class
rooms of the childcare centres.
Different centres provide different care services.
And different centres go by different rules or
protocols and fees. Good to check with each
prior to registration. What is shared here is a
general comment of the BASC service and not
representing any centre in particular, k.
Hope the info helps. -
Buds,
does BASC generally offer flexi-care programme? ie if i/caregiver is sick and need someone to fetch and supervise the kid for say 1-2 days only or on adhoc basis (eg 2-3 days a week as parent working parttime). -
jedamum:
Heyya jedamum,Buds,
does BASC generally offer flexi-care programme? ie if i/caregiver is sick and need someone to fetch and supervise the kid for say 1-2 days only or on adhoc basis (eg 2-3 days a week as parent working parttime).
Generally no. Cause the fees are already quite reasonable for the normal
20 days of before after school care. But if you do require a fixed flexi-day
kind of routine, (if you know you have fixed part-time hours) you may
raise it up with the centre of your choice. There may be some who are
willing to make exceptions, subject to case-by-case basis and also
availability. This, only the operator can decide lah not the main teaching
staff. If you're talking ad-hoc, your child should preferably already have
had been in their environment before so the staff knows which student
is your child to be fetched at the school gate... the primary school usually
already have the list of children going for the before after school care
programme and children are lined up according to the centres they are
attending. Hence, ad-hoc is again case by case basis. As for childcare
centres, i do know of centres who can provide ad-hoc for like S$50 per
day, all meals and shower included on top of the normal care. The child
will also join in the lessons with other children of the class. It helps if the
child put up to centres for ad-hoc are the quick-adaptable type and does
not mind being cared for by a new face for the day. -
buds:
Oh man! then have to write in for special request - dont mind paying a bit more for per day costs. was wondering if they offer such services cos sometimes the caregiver is tied up with a younger kid at home who is sick. or parent didnt want the kid to be at home cos the younger one is sick (kindof try to limit the contact to minimise the spread).
Generally no. -
jedamum:
Ya, jedamum. Usually parents with urgencies will not mind paying a lil
Oh man! then have to write in for special request - dont mind paying a bit more for per day costs. was wondering if they offer such services cos sometimes the caregiver is tied up with a younger kid at home who is sick. or parent didnt want the kid to be at home cos the younger one is sick (kindof try to limit the contact to minimise the spread).buds:
Generally no.
more for urgent cases of really needing the care. I have had personal
experience of such myself at a childcare set up. The mom sent in child
cos she needed to be at the hospital to attend to a terminally ill parent
and she was advised it could be anytime (to passing on) already and
should be prepared for the worst. She just was not in the frame of mind
to care for her child and run errands at the hospital, which we understand.
She thanked us in advance many times and apologised if it was a last
minute drop-off for a child we have totally not worked with prior to the
request. We assured her it was ok and that we will care for the child the
best we can and that we will only call her if there was really anything of
emergency status. She said also she knows her child will cry for awhile
and the child will take time to cool down, and with that helpful information
i was tasked to do the job. Hehehee... I'm known to be the immune to
noise... (immune to cries, screams, shouts). All the years being shouted
in my ear by crying children, has made me develop this occupational
hazard... kekekekeh.. -
jedamum:
jedamum, you want me to ask where my DD goes to about this? Then your DS1 will at least know 1 person there.
Oh man! then have to write in for special request - dont mind paying a bit more for per day costs. was wondering if they offer such services cos sometimes the caregiver is tied up with a younger kid at home who is sick. or parent didnt want the kid to be at home cos the younger one is sick (kindof try to limit the contact to minimise the spread).buds:
Generally no. -
schellen:
ya...wait til the '8 character has 1 stroke' first (for my application; i mean) then perhaps i'll find out more from that centre.
jedamum, you want me to ask where my DD goes to about this? Then your DS1 will at least know 1 person there.
i think he won't mind the new environment if M is around