Caroline's Wonderland

Where is your short listed school?

在马？还是国外？
哗，你还tuk 电脑？是在考虑国际学校？

哈哈。。靠自己的感觉，也靠有接触过哪间学校的人的意见。

Sam, near lintas area lo .... headache la!!! Cos the one near my house is very poor condition, the 2nd nearest one is Shan tao @_@ I think will pengsan due to work load :(

No ... in my hometown la! if international school no need to tuk computer one, ask school fees will know which one to decide :P

ya, I just went to school and check it out already. seems like all those near my house is not suitable for Angel. Cham lah .... need to drive far far away just to attend primary school leh ....

Ya true.... becoz they are so well disciplined, so they push hard on academic achievements.
Anyway.. bad schools have great students and good schools have terrible students as well.... so... just go and visit the schools physically and if u can, check on the teachers. It is useless if a great school with great students handled by rude teachers. That's the one i am facing now.. i hope i am wrong!

I enrolled my Chermaine to the nearest school and 2nd well maintained primary (building) in our small town. With the near distance, I fetch her to school every day and ask my parents in law to check on her recess break time everyday.

I thought i was lucky to get a place as the decision to enrol her into this school came very last minute and was thinking in such small town, should have lesser students and wont be that much of academic pressure. Upon 1st week of school only i realised through conversation with other parents, IT IS a top school in town and the school expects top kids.

Example: After school tuition in the school till 3.30pm daily... YA... DAILY... including weekends! And the teachers are strict in everything and the asst. principal is just acting like a mafia, shouting at parents IF parents went inside the school compound without permissions, asking a student whether she is dumb and deaf when the student failed to answer his questions!
Duh.... I hope things are not as worse as i heard ...

So my conclusion is.. LUCK is LUCK :) Get a less hasle one and u are comfortable with...

Sorry... such a long comment again ... =P

Steph!!!

I love your long comments leh ..... and can I say OMG, is the school your girl in now consider a school with the teacher acting like that????? You have no plans to change school ah? the teacher there sounds scary leh ..... :( Even primary 1 need to stay back till 3.30pm?? Here hor, only primary 4 and above compulsory!

Why I am stressing on discipline is that I am afraid got samseng in school and police will visit school very often like one of the school beside mine!!! That makes the kids very hard to concerned lah ... I don't want my kids kena bully and collecting $$$ by her friends paying 'safety fees' :( I really saw that happens before! :(

Ya ... I am enrolling my Angel to a less hassle and far school from my area. I just want her to be happy and yet, still learning something useful. I don't mind her ready herself for pressure in school, just hope that it will not be those good decent pressure and not loaded with never ending homework.

such extreme schools huh ...
yeah, enrolled last year already, just between 2 schools nearby. I choose the one which is in a safer area (traffic not that terrible and not so many foreigners woking around). Don't know can get or not, this year will know.

Just hope that our kids will be happy in their school la. Can visit her often as the school is nearby also something good, anything we can go there very fast!! 比较放心哦！Secondary school, hopefully when she starts secondary school, the school has turn into a good school lah, hahahaha.

ya ..... after I enrol Angel, then I saw a teacher asking her about exams, then she told me 6 exams too!!! Aiiikksss .... I almost tarik balik my form leh. Luckily when I asked her about the homework and she say everyday 2-3 homework lo. But heard that S.J also have a lot of homework (after S.T???) and that's why I didn't think of S.J. Your Chen is ok if a lot of homework or not? My angel is a bit "not that rajin" one :P

I also enroll Chloe to a less pressure school that nearby my house. But due to less students in the whole school, but with enough teacher, classroom, and facilities the school has trnsformed to full day. All classes are from 7.30am - 3.30pm. Quite tiring hor? Afternoon class is for those tuition, homework class and co-curriculum. This is the nearest but not so pressure school at my area. 30% is bangsa lain, that mean 1 class will have 2-3 Malay or Indian student. I think my girl can suit beeter as her Chinese is not so good too.

Caroline, Vicky is right. My niece now standard 1, my sister told me chinese school changed system already to kssr, less exams (if I'm not mistaken only twice per year). My currently standard 6 niece, she was like having exam every month last time!

By the way, Angel going to chinese school? no?

no Stephy my girl going to Chinese primary school. The same like ur Cher geh lots of bangsa lain. Must let our kids to Chinese school lah, coz bangsa lain send their kids to Chinese school. tak kan we send our to kebagsaan school haha

Caroline, went to the school today, they said start this year they enroll 2 years student, will hand in my form tomorrow.

So far Qing is ok with her homework, really not that heavy, till today, only BM has ejaan, once a week.

Not relaxing also, they will be having 6 times exams :( But homework wise, I can see that it's lesser for the time being like you say la :)

It's good that near you house have such nice school! Here hardly find small student classes, mostly are 50 students in one class. But even primary 1 also need to attend till 3.30pm? Quite tiring leh ..... but I like your school as it only started at 7.30am.

your chermaine class only 33 students per class??? how nice leh ... here almost 50 per class and some even reached 55 students :O

Small town mah Caroline.