My mom is 71 and she still feels bad for a decision she made more than 30 years ago... She regretted for not sending my brother to a chinese primary school. Yet my bother and sister-in-law (both can't read and write Chinese) put their girls in Chinese primary school and both my nieces do well in school. Mom is happy ...but she still feels guilty about her own decision.
All my kids shall attend 6 years of primary Chinese school, and I force my elder two to continue taking Chinese subject in secondary school. I have no regret on that but I have other headaches.
My dilemma:
1) Private vs Public school
2) National vs International syllabus
I end up putting them in a public secondary school.... and end up regretting (I listed the problems in my previous posting). So just a few months ago, I decided to switch my girl to a private school with national syllabus. My son will join her next year.
Why not international syllabus? Well...I don't have the courage to burn the bridge yet. Since they have good command of English, I feel that there is no harm to master another language...especially that is our national language (even though I can't guarantee they will stay in this country forever!? )
How does my girl cope with the new school? On the first day, she told me her class has quite a number of students from chinese primary school. Her classmates are "super friendly" and not snobbish, and her teachers are 'cool, nice, friendly, and all can teach.' I could see she already likes her new school .
She could tell the difference between the private & public school
But then she told me "there is something "NOT GOOD" about that new school". My heart sank.............
She looked at me and said, "The teachers really COME TO CLASS! They really TEACH!! And they REALLY GIVE HOMEWORK!!!
I am now convinced I have made the right move xD
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孩子快乐就好了。
夫人，我女兒每日開心上學去。她也告訴我這間新學校比舊的好很多。她甚至鼓勵我把她哥哥也轉去，她說哥哥一定會喜歡。孩子的確快樂，而我雖然也跟著開心，但一想到我們政府學校的素質每況愈下真的很令人擔憂。
孩子在国中必须完全靠自己，我是指在迫切情况之下找外面补习，因为大多数的老师都是随便教，一年里作业簿没几页功课，有些甚至不批改。这是我三个孩子的经历，只是当时苦于无钱，不能付费让他们去私立学校。
夫人，很多国中老师的素质真的不够好，难为了孩子们以及我们这些父母。一些国中的孩子靠自己，以及靠些补习也能考到好成绩。但我想如果能把他们放在更优良的学习环境，或许他们可在学校充分学习，少补几科。除此之外，也可把一些多出来的时间用在其他活动上。中学只有一次，除了课业以外，应享有美好的校园生活，包括回忆里有令人敬佩的师长。
我有位邻居的孩子小学是华小的团长，品学兼优但可感到他有股压力也并不十分快乐。中学他上私立学校，五年来除了功课一样好，他变得开朗健谈，并非常积极参与课外活动。SPM 拿了10A, 也成了模范生。他母亲告诉我他非常享受校园生活，他很爱他的同学及老师们 （他亲口告诉我老师都很好，我心想虽不是全部应也有一大部分）。毕业典礼之前他伤心了几日。我在想，若他在国中，他应该一样會有好成绩，但他会失些去什么呢？
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