[Novena] Primary Schools

[sglady]

The school will never ask the students to leave but it’s the pressure the parents receive from the school; the parents can take them no longer and thus transfer their kids out.


Daughter of my good friend was in a very popular girl school but was transferred out coz my friend and her hubby couldn’t stand receiving calls from school almost daily. Her daughter is just an average student scoring 70-80 for most of the subjects.

[verykiasu2010]

sglady:

The school will never ask the students to leave but it's the pressure the parents receive from the school; the parents can take them no longer and thus transfer their kids out.


Daughter of my good friend was in a very popular girl school but was transferred out coz my friend and her hubby couldn't stand receiving calls from school almost daily. Her daughter is just an average student scoring 70-80 for most of the subjects.

almost daily calls for scoring 70 -80 ? seriously you are joking or your good friend is not telling the complete truth or just a cover for something else ?

I don't believe what you post. please name the school. SCGS ? RGPS ? MGS ? St Nick ?

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

But all schools should be able to help all children of different abilities, unless the child has severe learning disabilities. Given this, no school should be asking any child to leave, or even 'advise' parents to leave.

and there is no obligation to leave nor feel pressured to leave

all these are hearsay from \"friends\" who may not be telling the truth for the sake of face saving.

if it is a case severe learning disability subsequently established by the school with the help of professional services, then it is a different story

I can imagine the parents for the face of not wanting their friends to know the kid has got some learning ability and has to go to a special school, decided to give a cover up reason to say the school advised them to transfer because of non-performance etc. So instead of transferring to special school, the parents decided to try other primary school in a denial mode, and continue to tell the story that because the kid is not doing well, hence told to transfer out to a less well known school. These people are not telling the truth except that the kid is transferred out.

I know of people doing just that

[wiltanws]

sglady:

The school will never ask the students to leave but it's the pressure the parents receive from the school; the parents can take them no longer and thus transfer their kids out.


Daughter of my good friend was in a very popular girl school but was transferred out coz my friend and her hubby couldn't stand receiving calls from school almost daily. Her daughter is just an average student scoring 70-80 for most of the subjects.

I believe you did not get the full story. If scoring ave 70 to 80 had to be pressured to transfer out, this will become quite a big news for the medias.

[Scary]

wiltanws:

I believe you did not get the full story. If scoring ave 70 to 80 had to be pressured to transfer out, this will become quite a big news for the medias.

Even if it's P1, I don't think they will be advised to transfer the kids elsewhere.

[sglady]

verykiasu2010:

almost daily calls for scoring 70 -80 ? seriously you are joking or your good friend is not telling the complete truth or just a cover for something else ?


I don't believe what you post. please name the school. SCGS ? RGPS ? MGS ? St Nick ?

Hmm, chill off. No hard feelings.

You can choose not to believe it and this is just a hearsay from my friend which may not be true. And maybe my friend feels very paiseh when the teacher is so concerned about her daughter wanting my friend to do something about the grades.

And I believe every school is different and so are the teachers when approaching weaker students.

[sglady]

Just to clarify, my friend transferred her daughter out not the school.

[2hotTOhandle]

sglady:

Just to clarify, my friend transferred her daughter out not the school.

I too dun believe that the teacher will call the parents daily when the girl is scoring 70-80. Like u said she is an average student. There are lotsa average students! Can u name the sch??

[cindycsm]

Hmm I thought all schools have this Learning Support Prog to help weak students? Dun think any sch will kick a student for some unreasonable reason.

[Zeng]

cindycsm:

Hmm I thought all schools have this Learning Support Prog to help weak students? Dun think any sch will kick a student for some unreasonable reason.

Agree. But for those with actual learning disability, esp the milder ones, depending on resources, different schs may have diffferent ability to support such students. For relatively common problems like dyslexias, sch teachers may not even recognise them.