Yes. My DD had no tuition throughout. The GEP course itself is good enough.

Haha, if the teacher have had the students line up and opened up the Hongzi shoulder buttons to inspect a la conveyor belt system style, I’d say that is something worth my empty life to dwell into.


Now, there is one student subjected to this. Why is this n number ‘1’? It could have happened to an entire class under that teacher’s inspection, but why that selected ‘1’?

If you’re getting my drift… The rest of the wannabes who witnessed this are so worried and concerned by what they’ve seen and felt it could happen to them, and because it is easy to make it sound sensational, added lots of fictional details that fanned speculation, capitalising on the vagueness of this entire hullabaloo. It could be parents of rule-flouting students who helped fan up these things even (who knows?) because, hey, if I spent a bomb buying that Nike bra to show through the boringly white school uniform, I jolly well want my princess to walk around showing off that catwalk-worthy piece to express her individuality (over the rest of the law-abiding boring creatures), right?

So it’s blown up. Instead of having teachers help parents police and help us teach our daughters to align to defined rules, we are quick to point multitudes of accusing fingers at teachers, because most of us parents have never been teachers, but remembered the time when we had to abide by strict rules enforced by teachers and hating it then, and/or can’t bear the thought of our princesses being reprimanded by someone else.

The rules have always been there. I wanted to buy other colour bras for my daughter but she always says there’s no point because they can only wear beige-coloured ones. Not virgin white, not princess pink, not pastel blue. Just beige. I really wanted to thank the one who set the school rules for doing this, for teaching my kid well. Not forgetting the ones who enforce them, so that students understand that results (academic and otherwise) are not the only important stuff.

I didn’t complain - how did you assume I did?


I’m just watching on the sidelines, like everyone else.

传统华校出生的家长都会能够理解的。

It’s great to hear all the ‘other school’ mums’ perspectives.


Reinforces and restores my faith in Nanyang Girls and ‘Chinese schools’ in general somehow. I’m glad the school does not mollycoddle the girls - regardless of merit.

Actually, how can we be sure that sec 4 girl was THE victim in this whole incident?

mommyNg:

Imp75:

The parents and pupils are watching, let’s see how this is resolved

Hopefully it will be appropriately resolved.

What happened? DD refused to tell.

Singaporeans holding valid passports usually get an immediate approval. So far I’ve applied for ETA online 3 times over the past 5 or 6 years we’ve all been approved almost instantaneously. Still, you never know. Good luck!

Blink

Funz:

Kiddos know that we do monitor them and we told them never to block us. It is for their safety and security. And if they are not doing anything that breaks the rules and what is agreed upon, they should not have any issues with us knowing where they went.


Even for monitoring the sites they visit, etc. Explained to them that there are many online stuff that appears innocent but are actually entrapments for young impressionable minds like theirs. Again, they muss trust that we parents are only looking out for their safety and well-being, not that we do not trust them. Told them their father is even tempted to monitor their granma's online activities as she was almost scammed a few times.

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Classic good parenting skill: set and enforce reasonable limits, also explain rationale. 玉不琢不成器

fishvleon:

Brand\tModel\tPrice\tAge\tTrpt fee\tTotal

Yamaha\tJU109\t2000\t3 years\t130\t2130
Cristofori\tJC 122M\t1350\tBrand New 0 \t1350 (2 year warranty)
Yamaha\tLU100\t1200\t8 years\t130\t1330

Hi, need some advice from you guys. I am thinking to get a second-hand upright piano for my 5 yo daughter. She has been learning piano for a while. There are some problems with her current keyboard, so I decided to upgrade to an acoustic piano.

I have shortlisted above 3 pianos. I personally prefer Cristofori as it is within my budget and the seller claimed he bought it only 6 weeks ago and wanted to let go and it is still under warranty. But I am not sure about its performance as compared to another two.

Yamaha JU109 is \"younger\" than LU100, but it has slightly exceeded my budget. Not sure whether it's worth it to pay $800 more or not.
Saw people advised to have a professional to check/assess the piano before buying, anyone has recommendations?

Thanks in advance for your kind help.

Generally, Yamaha pianos are like Hondas and Toyotas in the car market - the resale value is higher in the 2nd hand market, if you eventually decide to let it go later. The Cristofori option looks really good on paper, but do go and take a look, and play on it. Get a feel. I have a really uneasy feeling about that one.