astro: from what u have posted about the purple train P, my take is this: i think that u r analysing way too much (on whether teng can adapt and how is he is the youngest so needs more time to get use to the cirriculum etc etc) I feelthat the P is taking advantage that teng is not a paying student to kinda convince u to not continue/. sorry if i sound harsh, i agree with all the mummys, a kid crying a PG/CC is not a common site, if she is the P, she would have witnessed a lot of such cases, as for whether teng fits in, those kids that have not attended any CC, etc will need a longer time to fit into a structure schedule mah. so its not not surprised that teng's attention wandered cos its just his first week. I am not sure if it oculd be the case that u r not paying, thats why the P feels that its easier to ask to to not continue, cos if u have paid right form the begining, it will be more hassle to make u leave. so to make it easier for her, its alwasy easier to ask non paying parents to discontinue then to ask the paying parents to quite the school. u get what i mean?
why dun u just pay the school fees and then the scool will be "committed" to make sure teng adapts!!
I also agree with pax, should put him in daily, 3 days of week very distruptive and i think diff for him to adapt leh. if u wanna do it, should do it right straight from the begining, i think if u transit slowly, its even more tough for the child.