SCHOOL - any complain ???

gerrykoh SG

Get the class teacher's hp & email address. Some schs. are very good. They will give a letter to inform parents when the kids have to stay back for remedial. If the teacher cancels too often, then u should give her a call.

Check whether the remedials are effective before signing for tuition.
Don't give tuition on every subjs. only the weaker ones cos u don't want to overload your kid. They also need time to relax.

As to changing to better sch., best time is after P.3 streaming cos there will be vacancies after the gifted prog. Talk to principal of the sch. u like.

ORIGAMIST SG

As mentioned in my post, the teacher had screw-up my tution plan for my kids. Now the tution side have been cancelled.... no more vacancies, in the mean time, the remedial is off indefinately. Before, the start of the remedial, already got problem. Spoke to the VP and had heated arguement. It seem we owe them a living.... My experience with the school is, you even go personally and leave message, they never call back. When you confront them with it, they can give all kind of excuses. They thought we are all primary school students.... The excuses is damn very lame .... Anyway, your suggestion is worth considering. Got to check with my wife and seek her opionion too... Thanks ....

commonsense SG

my daughter is in pri 5 studying in a neighbourhood school. nowadays her english teacher conducts remedial classes at 9 am, my daughter studies in the afternoon session, and then her higher chinese teacher conducts remedial classes at 7.45pm till 9 pm. when my daughter comes back home, she has to complete piles of homework before sleeping at around midnight. and remedial class again the next day. i don't envy her. but nothing i, as a parent, can do to stop this nonsense, cos from what i know, the other kiasu parents were pretty supportive of it. and by the way, not all classes got night lessons though. only the best two classes of her cohort. i hope this is not their way of making the better students 'elite'. i rather my daughter is enjoying a less stressful childhood. Sad

oh, another neighbourhood school nearby also has night classes. so i wonder what's up with that.

aryan SG

wah lau pri sch only leh. i still remember my pri is like normal lessons only den no need study one.
PSLE oso so easy and its not impt, in secondary sch onwards, how u perform has nth to do with wad u do in pri sch

Rusesabagina SG

i also have experience with incompletent teachers…just a few mths back i was seating for my O lvl, my Eng very Jialat..then i ask my teacher y this verb need to put s this no need…then u noe wat she reply?she say: how i noe? english very funny one lah, u just remember this one no need put s.maybe she give me this kind of atitdute cos i not her students, but she is a teacher frm the same sch after all right?then my math teacher every 10 days got 1 day MC.a little bit sick then dun want to come, bad mood then dun wan to teach.just give us homework to do.then sometimes she bad mood, she dun open her mouth to teach and instead write down all the formular for us to apply.Those who take geog will noe that u will have 6 qns frm 6 chapts and u need to do 3.my teacher skip one of the chapts!Last time i sec 1 that time my math teacher i think change 7 times..end up whole class only 5 ppl pass.then those teacher all trainee i think…all bo chap attitdue.KNS my lower sec time the teacher always change one….i think the NIE send them for trail using us..but luckily things got better when i reach upper sec…no more NIE trainee for us..or else i dun noe how to survive my Os.talking abt private tution, i think it is a must lah..some teachers really jialat…but there are some very good one also…everyday stay at school until 5-6pm to wait for students to ask them questions..esp those older ones.some buys things to reward u when u did well.

Rusesabagina SG

yea talking abt bias treatment, the school really place more effort on the best 2 class, they get the better teachers,got piroity to go for JC Poly open hse...whereas other class dun have the chances.i remb hearing something that make me really mad with my SS teacher and i ended up arguing with her.Well this is the case.we are sec 3 and SS is a new subject to us...so everybody is not doing well.so we suggested to have extra lesson with the teacher aft school.U NOE wad she said? "oh....i noe ur SS is poor but class [email protected] did not do up to expectation leh...they expect to be the best class u noe.so i will have extra lesson with them...and for ur class i will held it with other class togeter in the auditorium.i really buey song upon hearing this...my respect for that highly respected teacher really drop..

Rusesabagina SG

ok now i talk abt CCAs...its really unfair in the CCA structure..

ok CCAs
Uniform grps
sports
clubs

lets talk abt this 3.

like all cca uniform grps student will get 1 pts for 75% attentant each year.(expected to get this.)
1 pts for every rank attainted.
2 pts for special event(NDP etc)
1 or 2 pts for NYAA(national youth achievement award)

for me a segt in my cca 3 pts + NDP(2pts) + 4 years attentant + 1 pts class commitee

a total of 10 pts.for uniform grps every one will be promoted if u dun pon cca.

for sports...
same as other cca 75% attentant for 4 years will get u 4 pts..
but to gain more points u need to win competition which is not easy...
i think being the captain also will gain u pts...but only 1 person can be the captain right?

so most of my sports frend get usuallu 7 or 6 pts which is abt C5 or B4.

for club even worst...
u got less chances to u got no compeition...only club chairman will get u points but how many chairman can there be in oen club?so normally students frm club will get c6 c5 like dat even giving their best...

and if u want to choose a CCA for ur child choose a UG, ONLY UG PPLS get the chance to go for camps, advanture, oversea...other cca the most u get is a once a year bbq in school.

Rusesabagina SG

ok last year national day speech.. the minster say everyone can go for Outward Bond School(a adventure camp).that was boo sht..only for those top school then every can go...in neighbourhood school only SELECTED UNIFORM GRPS and students leaders can go abt 7% of total sch pop.

Rusesabagina SG

and why our school didnt use OUR edusave?govt give us so much,but my sch didnt even use it!then now i finish sec sch liao how?waste of money.and why our exams cannot be paid by edusave?have to pay 400 dollar to take o lvl..whereas i cant touch the 1k+ in my edusave?!

Rusesabagina SG

ok, going out...post more when i am free. Laughing

dorothy SG

my son with Teck Ghee Primary, so far no problems lah.. even so as my son is a junior tyrant. When he was in primary one.. he sent a book flying at this poor teacher cos she ignored him when he tried to call her.

Got a lot of phone calls from form teacher to discuss about son's improvement, mostly at night. Hubby went down to see principal a few times also.

Now son is Primary two, sitting just right in front of the teacher. Having two desk for his own cos he is super messy with his books.

I know my son well, hard to control and tolerate his nasty temper at times. Really appreciate the patience of all the teachers who was teaching him

ORIGAMIST SG

You are lucky the school didn't touch your edusave. My daughter was with this neighborhood school who want to excel in art. They were raising fund fot the new school. so they hold musical night and all students expect to pay for tickets to go. Even students participating in the concert and got no chance at all to see the musical got to pay... The school deduct from edusave even without the parents consent !!! This go on for two years until someone cannot tahan anymore, complain to press. There was a report but the school dismiss the whole episode as mistake on one of the staff for deducting without consent. MOE did not even bother to check on it.. The school got away scot free. Meanwhile my daughter edusave becomes zero.... This was about two to three years ago...

LazerLordz SG

NO offence to the better neighbourhood schools but I thank God that I never stepped foot in their hallways.Mission schools have been a big part of my upbringing and I seriosuly shake my head at the calculating ways the schools and society is inculcating in our youth, rat race being uppermost on their minds, and a lack of care and concern for their classmates.

Geez.If you have the money, please send your kids to an international school or send them to a mission school.

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