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Re: 請問有沒有港大同學會小學的家長?
Hello HAPPYMOM@WORK and other parents whom may found this interesting:
Let me congratulate you, Happymom@work, on having a brilliant son studying in P.4 at HKUGA Primary School. He must be exceptionally good at school because he can finish his homework in an hour everyday while others are feeling the pressure from the workload and tests.
I did not expect to see such a long explanation promoting HKUGA Primary School. From what you have written, for a while I can recall the scene of the School Principal introducing the school in a forum. Are you also a teacher teaching there? I apologize if I have offended you in anyway. I was simply sharing my feelings towards the school. Unfortunately, many parents who have their children studying at HKUGA Primary school mutually agree with those feelings. Also, thank you for pointing out that information could be found on the School’s web site.
For my child, I would prefer good quality learning than just rich curriculum and many extra-curricular activities. Happymom@work, When will you have your daughter to change to HKUGA Primary School, too? Will you or will you not! May be you have already realized that your daughter is speaking better English than your son is. Many parents have been complaining about the English Department for the last 3 years because it has experienced a complete change of teachers. The department was quite disorganized for the longest time. In addition, they do not teach English Grammar systematically and they do not teach phonics any more after some of the best English teachers have left. Therefore, most students are often speaking broken English in class.
Let me share with you some other findings about this school regarding the workload for the students. Among heavy complaining from parents, at least one parent in P.3 has written a very long letter to the school complaining there were 3 to 4 projects to be completed over the past Easter Holiday. Furthermore, it seems that, once again, the School has lost its trust from that parent because the letter was sent directly to Chairman of the School Management Committee. Since you spoke highly about the school, I assume your son is not in the P.4 class, which is having a special meeting with the class teachers next week because most of the parents are having problems with the school?
I am sure extra-curricular activities can reveal a student’s hidden abilities; however, I would love to see my son learning how to read and write better before anything else. I hate to be one of those parents concerning about kids swimming 6 to 7 days a week for the school swimming team, and they are too tired to finish their homework at night. Nevertheless, the school believes that if they are not good at schoolwork, at least they are good at swimming.
The school is new and it wants plenty of track records to attract incoming students. Even some experienced teachers commented that a 3 years-old HKUGA Primary School is trying to accomplish things like a school with over 20 years of history. On the other hand, teachers, students, and their parents are taking 6 times as much pressure as other schools. May be this is what a new DSS need to do in order to promote and survive.
The way you explain “Teaching in HKUGA must be hard and it's no wonder the turnover rate is high” sounds very insensitive. Of course, being a teacher is a hard profession. But, many teachers have shown their concerns over too many happenings in such a short time. As I parents, I want my son’s teachers to have a balanced life inside and outside the school. I want them to feel fresh when they walk into my son’s classroom on Monday mornings. If you live in the school area, you can see teachers working until late hours at school every night. They need to make up the teaching materials as the days go by. I have seen the weariness on their faces at those non-teaching events such as the fund-raising walkathon on a Sunday morning for their secondary school, and at Friday night’s forum to keep the parents company. One year, two years or three years … how long do you think they can last? As a parent or if you were a fellow teacher, should we have sympathy for them? They are all good teachers and are excellent in their profession, and they have given their best to the students until they were exhausted or fell sick. Some of them even got bad mouthing unprofessionally by the school once they put forward their resignation. Fortunately, they found their happiness and have their time better served by teaching at other schools. I personally would feel even more unfortunate for those who wanted to leave and could not because they need their bread and butter. It makes me wonder if it is really the teachers’ faults or there are problems at the leadership level.
My son and most of his classmates are receiving heavy tutoring everyday after school in order to keep up with the school works. It is too late for my son to change school now; however, my son will not return to their secondary school, the HKUGA College, after P.6.
I do not speak for other parents, but I speak what I see. I should say no more for now as I have said that parents should be smart in choosing schools for the children. There are more DSS out there now than 3 years ago, and some of them are running by more experienced establishments. Try listening carefully to the parents’ conversation outside the school gate after school, may be some other parents will share their feelings, too.
Cheers, too!
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