Friday, May 30, 2008

Pre-school - comments?

Since mid April I quit my kids from attending pre-school as I want them to play learn instead of mainly learn from their text books and exercise books.

Secondly, I don't have a good feeling with those pre-school which over commercialised their educational centre instead of instilling good learning culture to our young children.

Worst is, there are daily homework for a 4yo @%!@#? I feel frustrated and tormented have to force my son to write pages and pages of alphabet without failed everyday. When I feel that an A4 size writing page is too much for a N2 kid, I only managed to force him to write for half a page yet that already coupled with crying on and off. The next day, the teacher wrote a comment asking to complete the page... I checked it out with school authority, they said there's market demand for homework!

To me, the teaching and learning lost its meaning when come to the end stage to FORCE. How are they going to learn the stress free way? Can this foster their learning interest? How to get them ready for life-long learning in years to come? How much damage that they had caused in the little brain, can u imagine?

I teach on my own too. I feel bad the way some teacher would rather pleased the parents instead of nurture children the right way.

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