Last Saturday, I exchanged my luxury to sleep till the sun is sky high at the top to go to my nephew and nieces school. I wanted to join my sister to collect their report card for the previous semester. They are studying at Chong Hwa Primary School, situated at Jalan Pahang (next to Ivan’s place)
My nephew and nieces are in Primary 1,3,4 and 6 respectively. When we arrived there at 8.00am, we hurried ourselves to my nephew’s classroom. We talked to the teacher and found that he is pretty weak in languages, both English and BM. Most of the time, he won’t talk much or making any gestures. Kind of very quiet kid at school. The teacher notice that he didn’t enrol in any kindergarten and perhaps we need to guide him well since he still unable to pick up as to compare with other.
After that, I met with my neice’s teacher (Primary 6). Since my niece was the class rep, there’s not much of attitude problem except that she doesn’t really much of a learner. To make it even worse, the teacher keep talking about donation. School donation. Choir and band performance. Instruments. Money. Money. Money. She keep telling me to urge my niece’s mother (whom is my cousin) to fork out some money for the school’s fund to buy the instruments which they required a substaintial amount of RM10k (if I am not mistaken)
The rest are almost or not likely the same. The worse part is that from my observation (I could be wrong), I found that despite the school is introducing full one day school period, they didn’t make much of improvement. Either the policy or the people itself that make it worse. First of all, the school have 2 session, morning and afternoon whereby the afternoon is in place for the kids to brush up whatever they are weak of. Needless to say, the end result I saw was disappointing. If they do bad in morning examination, the same applies to the afternoon as well.
I’ve conveyed my concerns to my cousin in law, she told me that that she have no idea. The school need to have the kids to study afternoon session where they called it “tuition” session. Every month, the parent are paying additional RM50 for the fees, RM8 for electricity bill, and buy additional books for the afternoon session.
This is sucks. Please enlighten me that education in this country haven’t go down the drain yet.
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