Oh dear, sounds like it's too late for me to put my kid thro a 'decent' kindy.
It's scary how everything starts to escalate to an earlier age.
And I thought P1 registration is crazy.
Perhaps next time there will be a class on prenatal education of the foetus, teaching the foetus some stuff which I know not what it is and people who are getting ready for pregnancy also put their tummies on waitlist.
I'll most likely put my baby in a nearby church kindy.
lil bluey,
It's alot of difference between PCF and the better kindies. Kids who go thro them, with good home support, do alright in school but there're alot of them who graduate from pcf not knowing how to read and write still. But usually, people who enrol their kids into private kindies are also people who provide alot of home support to their kids, so perhaps it's home support that really matters.
Perhaps I could share my elder kid's experience:
I put her in the Nursery class under my parents' flat when she was 4, thinking that there's no diff between the schools and becos of proximity. The poor girl didn't have any friends as she soon found out she didn't understand her friends' mother tongues and her friends couldn't understand her. She felt really lonely and unhappy then. One year later, I transferred her to a church kindy where the kids spoke English, and she became happy there.
Re: being ks
I think people who say that others are kiasu are usually people who don't have kids yet or they are not that well-informed. When my kid was due for P1 registration, a friend told me that I was too kiasu to place her in a school far away from my place, 'just becos it's branded'.
Now that she becomes a mother herself, she has sent her barely-two-year-old kid to different classes and is finding out different schools for P1 registration. I asked her,"Do you now want her to go to the best schools?" She said coyly,"Yes, yes ..."
