If parents have no expectation on their children, they will not pay for a place in a DSS school. Like me , I want my daughter to attain the great achievements as those in the famous schools.
If we ask for 95% from our children, does it mean they will get 95% in reality after we all have tried hard?
If we ask for 75% of our children, it does not mean we can let them learn themselves without our guidance and monitoring.
The reason is we always expect higher but the outcome is lower.
If parents have no expectation on their children, they will not pay for a place in a DSS school. Like me , I want my daughter to attain the great achievements as those in the famous schools.
If we ask for 95% from our children, does it mean they will get 95% in reality after we all have tried hard?
If we ask for 75% of our children, it does not mean we can let them learn themselves without our guidance and monitoring.
The reason is we always expect higher but the outcome is lower.
but the cruel reality is most parents always have high, and sometimes unreasonable, expectations on their children without fully understanding and assessing at what level their children are.
I have once heard one teacher teaching in a top band 1 primary school said whenever teachers give out test and exam papers, the next day they will receive numerous parents callings, urging for a few more marks because their little princes and princesses are unhappy about the results and they refuse to take meals. I guess it is NOT the children who has lost the appetite just because of a few marks on the papers. It is the parents who can't face the reality!
Sure! I've heard that a lot of 1st tier schools prefer admitting students with a full time mom who can provide full assistance on the studies and moral education. DBSPD is one of them. But of course, this is not the only determining factor. At the end of the day, it's about the child himself. If he is super smart, no school would have any reason to reject him.
原帖由 funnyguy 於 09-9-8 00:53 發表
If parents have no expectation on their children, they will not pay for a place in a DSS school. Like me , I want my daughter to attain the great achievements as those in the famous schools.
I don't mean we can shift our duty to look after our children. However, it sounds funny if we have to teach them many subjects again at home instead of learning at school themselves
原帖由 funnyguy 於 09-9-9 12:41 發表
I don't mean we can shift our duty to look after our children. However, it sounds funny if we have to teach them many subjects again at home instead of learning at school themselves
That's why I want to know which DSS your daugther was in.
As far as I know, not many DSSs like this. It is strange to say the DSS students experience ineffective learning at school.
Certainly, if "learning" to you means reciting, drilling and repetitively doing similar homework (in order to cope with TSA, etc.), DSS (with activity-based learning) is not the right choice for you.