afraid so. we have highlighted to the vice principal previously (can’t remember which year) and her reply was that singapore as a whole is short of teachers hence they had to make do with relief teachers.


hopefully your pv experience would be able to shed more light on the situation from the inside

Hi,


To future parents who want to consider registering their kids for Chongfu, we have this piece of experience to share.

My child is now in Pri 5 and every year, we thought the next year would be better but … sigh.

In Pri 1, we had a permanent teacher for the first half. followed by relief teacher for the second half.

In Pri 2, we had a chinese language teacher as form teacher and all other subjects taught by different teachers from other classes.

In Pri 3, we had a relief teacher for the first 3 months, followed by a permanent teacher for the next 3 months who is always on MC or urgent leave and finally another permanent teacher for the second half of the year.

Pri 4 was the best because we had a permanent teacher for the whole year for the first time.

In Pri 5, we had a trainee form teacher, trainee chinese language teacher and relief teacher for science.

Trust me that most of the horrid stories you hear about trainee and relief teachers are TOTALLY TRUE.

As for the ECAs, our only comment is that they have not changed since we parents were in primary school in the 70s.

We have decided that our second child will not be going to Chongfu but will settle for another neighbourhood school.

Just want to share this with you but ultimately the decision is still yours.