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Tee will be four years old this year. *faint*

How time flies.

We have started thinking about schools because depending on our decision on where to send her, we may need to get her registered for pre-school in order to secure a place.

I’m all for sending her to Kuen Cheng because my neighbour’s kids go there, it’s near enough where we live and she needs the discipline and hardship. Tee is way too spoilt and needs to realise that the world does not revolve around her, and one way of her learning that is to put her in a no-nonsense environment. Yes, I could unspoil her but that needs to be done gradually. It wasn’t her fault that she was/is spoilt. So to make my life easier, I should dump her in Kuen Cheng. Yes?

I’ve heard that they are short on supplies. My friend’s daughter who’s a pre-schooler there has to wait and take turns to use their colour pencils and scissors because they have so few. There are 40 kids to a class. At mealtimes, a big pot of porridge arrives at your class and you queue up with your bowl ala Oliver Twist to get your food. This will be great for Tee! Plus she gets to learn Mandarin better and we would save so much money!

The Hubs begs to differ. He does not intend for Tee to endure such hardship for 2 reasons. He feels that her Portuguese blood will only rebel and the methodology behind Chinese schools will not gel well with her. At all. We would only be wasting our time and everyone elses because Tee is hard headed enough not to do what the teacher tells her to i.e. she will be spending half her year in detention or whatever form of punishment they implement there. I hear they still use rulers to threaten a hit.

The second reason is because the Hubs went to a Chinese School for two years before being sent to boarding school and he absolutely hated it. He said the toilets were so filthy that they couldn’t be used and everyone was just stupid. So he spent a lot of time staring into corners………

I’m thinking of sending Tee to Kuen Cheng pre-school next year. Does anyone have anything to share? I would be most grateful.

Other options? Local private schools such as Sri KDU, Sri Cempaka, Sri whatever (annual cost ~RM15,000-RM20,000) – another friend who’s just sent her son there starting this year is fast realising that Sri KDU annoys the shit out of her because they make her buy her son new things for school everyday. Sri Cempaka is reputed to be too academic but I survived Methodist College so I can’t imagine what the hell too academic means! At Methodist College, academics were important (90% of my class went to the UK to become successful medical doctors, a handful became engineers from Imperial College, Cambridge, UCL; there was one dentist and one architect) but we had a hell of a lot of fun!!! WE DID!!! *sigh*

International school? Alice Smith is over-rated AND costs ~RM30,000 per year for this level, not to mention another ~RM30,000 you have to pay just to start there! Garden School was very impressive, if we decide the International route, that’s where she’s headed. Fees are still phenomenal but at least I felt that the facilities, teachers and results matched up. However, why is it that we have to sell our asses in order to get a quality education? Isn’t it every child’s God given right? *sigh*

The Hubs does not want her going to the local Government schools either. He has spent 20 years living outside Malaysia and does not have any faith in the system. O_O

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