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Switching schools
By bigpumpkin | May 1, 2008
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That’s it. Next week, I’m off to a Chinese preschool to register Tee for Term 3. I’m done with her school. Her old teacher just left and the new teacher is not quite the same, not that she is bad, but I have very high standards. If the school is costing so much, then I have certain expectations. And despite the fact that the school measures excellently in all respects comparatively, I still have certain expectations that they have failed to meet of late. Like answering my phone call rather than getting the receptionist to ask me what it is regarding. Like paying attention to little details, for example, the old teacher has left, why is her name still on the classroom door?
I do have high standards, don’t I? Well, if the fees are more expensive than going to University in Singapore, wouldn’t you make some demands too? This is only preschool after all! *grunt*
I am now busy teaching Tee how to use a squatting toilet - muahahaha!!! My little princess is going to be transformed!!!
We brought her to her ‘new’ school today and she seems open to the idea that she’s a big girl going to a big school. What more she loves Mandarin and is excited at the prospect that she gets to learn even more Mandarin. And the playground is much bigger! So we shall see……because she is really going to be in for a shocker.
I mean, gold trimmed cushion laced toilet seats to stained squatting holes??? *guffaws*
For some strange reason, I am feeling good about this.
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May 1st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
i sent my elder girl and now my younger to a church kindergarten. Their syllabus are much better than those franchise kindies, like Smart Readers, in my honest opinion. Their fees are lower too because of the absence of hidden costs related to franchising fees, textbooks, uniforms, and whatnots. Kids wear their normal wear to school, no fancy pretty uniforms.. but the syllabus is very good… they have reasonable amount of homework everyday. My elder child who has zero mandarin background, learnt a lot in the final year of the kindy, and now has no problem at all in assimilating with her Primary Chinese school syllabus. If you can, try looking for a church that runs a kindergarten like that.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 am
qiqi can squat but have to take her pants off totally. not easy for them to pee not wetting if their pants are still on…hehe
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:04 am
Wow, her school fees cost that much? Yalor, if you’re paying so much, and yet you are still not happy with the way they run the kindy, then switching in the best option. Hundreds others to choose from.
If you’re planning to send her to a Chinese school, then chinese kindy is a good start.
Hope she’s ok with that.