hi all
wonder if this thread is still active.
i have 2 kids in CD resort. the elder one has been in the school for 2 yrs. i used to like the school as i love the spacious outdoor area they have. Tot the pool is for the kids to play FOC hahah but comes with a price of $180 if i dint rem wrongly. But lately i have been contemplating to remove them from the school. Below i have listed some of the good and bad about carpe diem resort for all who are planning to enrol their kids. hope it will be useful.
1) School bus service -- good
no complaints so far. once a while kids are not buckled up.
2) Environment -- great except the mosquito issues
3)HFMD -- occassionally but not the extreme cases whereby school has to close for a period of time.
4)Turnover rate - relatively high (in my opinion
)..has seen quite a number of teachers leaving and new faces coming in.
5) at times wen i ask my dotter on wat has been taught in the english class, she will say ..hmm nothing cos teacher is on leave this week...
not exactly sure if my dotter is speaking the truth as i dun check on the school but if it is..den its nitemare right? imagine no english lesson for 1 week?
6) the most important point on why i have the intention to transfer my kids out to another sch - The english teachers speak very bad english. as ENGLISH teacher, my min expectation of them is to speak grammatically correct english. But wen i was there during a story telling session, i was disgusted by all the grammar mistakes made! haiz...and parents who have kids there in CD resort. (hmm i may hav overreacted but to me, my std of english is poor and yet i can spot the grammar mistakes ..hmm)
7) The good thing is my kid picks up alot of mandarin in sch. as they are surrounded by heaps of Chinese teachers. but den again there are disadvantage of too many chines teachers. there was a PTC session and 1 chinese teacher was telling me. Oh i cant speak english and most of the kids are english speaking. so at times we dunno wat the kids want.
does anyone know of any parents in CD resort who have tranferred their kids to some other kindergarten or childcare? any comments from them?