Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part XXX!

laurence82 SG

Hmm, very diff from sg system huh?

I think SG school kids nowadays miss out a lot

What used to be red brick buildings, wooden furniture and large field, now gave way to a maze of scary tall buildings with aircon and computers

It was sad when i go back to my primary school and secondary school to see the field and carpark overtaken by more buildings

Its more like a factory then a school

Confused

The man who was death SG

sch chairs nowadays are backbreakers Mad

jetta SG

I dislike the common pool thing but what can you do? They've done it this way for years. What gets me is that some parents will buy the absolutely cheapest stuff they can find. My kids are in the higher grades now and so the common pool thing is no more for them. Still, school supplies aren't cheap so I'm always on the lookout for coupons or stuff on sale.

laurence82 SG

Textbooks was scary back those days

From where I came from, the system is like jetta's place

Our textbooks are on loan, and sometimes u get half a textbook, uniform and badges given by the school...

And our principal is our bookshop uncle as well..

We had one exercise book and one textbook per subject, and when i came to sg, i saw plastic bag after plastic bag of books on the floor and my dad told me they are books for my new sch

and to my horror, there is like textbooks, workbooks, supplementary books etc etc

All alien to me

Confused

jetta SG

It's very different here. Another thing here that's interesting is that teachers have wish lists. Teachers don't get paid much and they usually pay for many things out of their own pockets. They'll put up their list for all to see with hopes of generous parents fulfilling their wish. Even during a book fair, they'll put up a wish list to beef up the class library.

jetta SG

I can wait. Razz

Fatum SG

and it got scarier didn't it ? ....

my first day of poly, I went and bought less than S$100 worth of textbooks for 8 subjects, my first day of uni, i spent more than C$500 for 5 subjects .!!! .....

but then I was a bit blur, so bought all new ones, though subsequently I bought second hand ones, texts were still a pretty big expense ....

laurence82 SG

oh dear

are you describing a private school or a government funded school?

jetta SG

Which part of Msia was that? Are things different now?

The syllabus here is so different. IMHO, there isn't enough daily homework.

jetta SG

US public school system

Fatum SG

that doesn't sound crappy at all ......

The man who was death SG

there's too much daily hmwk in sg, kids here will be envious of your kids.

in aust, they have MPs who fight for less homework for kids, how i wish we have MPs like that too here.

laurence82 SG

urm, but in primary and secondary sch, everything is compulsory, even that Policeman Ah Cai book

Laughing

yeah, was abt to buy all the books for my first semester, then my friend warned against it, lucky me, now rarely use textbooks, coz some dont need, some are very project based, and for exams, textbooks in the library can only be strictly borrowed for two days by a person, so my friends and i borrowed for two days, then switch over hee hee

Why dont you get ur text in SG? You know, what my bro did is to email the list to us, we get what we can, and DHL to him, apparently its still cheaper

i dont know how cheap books are in SG till one Aussie lecturer told us their books over cost twice as much as ours

Shocked

jetta SG

The homework load in SG is ridiculous. My friends there always tell me how lucky my kids are, not to be in the Sg school system. The load here, if you can call it that, is just insufficient. One sheet of fill in the blanks worksheet is just so miniscule. We'll see what this next school year brings. Hopefully some change.

laurence82 SG

Johor

I am not sure how things are now, but when i looked at it when i go back to my hometown, it just looked freshly painted but no frills

Not enough homework? Hmm, how is their syllabus like? I think US one is more on brains and sports than rote learning and learning everything in sight like SG

laurence82 SG

Arnold not doing his work

Laughing

The man who was death SG

isn't there a credit system there?? ur kids can ask for more hmwk to get more credits....no?

Fatum SG

I did for some of my courses, but many of the professors supplement their income by writing textbooks, which were not always available in singapore, and they'll then set those as recommended text for students .... well ... I'm keeping all my compy sci and econs texts, but I've sold most of the elective texts ....

laurence82 SG

I think the Aussies, from what I heard, is trying to revamp their education system

They are trying to do things along NLP and creativity, but so far, i dont think they sound like our stupid JC project work and all

jetta SG

Laughing

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