For the 3rd time
Preschool, School-study April 3rd, 2009Something is definitely wrong with my boys’ school but I have no clue and errrmmmm….so long as my boys are happy, I don’t intend to make a big hoo-haa like the other parents.
Since the beginning of this year, Keatkeat’s English teacher was replaced 3 times and Mandarin teacher twice!
So for the 3rd time this year, I had to write this message in their teacher-parent-communication-booklet:-
*Sigh* When you stay in a multi-lingual country, you’ve got to face such teeny weeny problems too….
Updated on 8 April 4.48pm: Oh Dear! Majority of you think that I’m complaining about the wrong pronunciation. But the real message I wanted to put across in this post was THE SCHOOL HAS BEEN CHANGING TEACHERS as if they were changing their clothes!!!
April 4th, 2009 at 4:23 am
Many people here pronounce my daughter Sariah’s name wrong as well.
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April 4th, 2009 at 6:06 am
At least they don’t call him Joe, right?
April 4th, 2009 at 8:57 am
hmm…so keat’s school also kept changing teachers huh. I gather it could be due to the rules that the teachers must at least have a diploma, that’s why my girl’s school also keep changing teachers.
btw, you have a very nice handwriting ! :)
April 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am
ling,
but the ‘new’ teachers’ spoken language is WORSE than the previous… *faint*
my handwriting nice ah?! *laugh*
still, must say “Thank you thank you….”
April 4th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
hummm, I’d almost be tempted to talk to the administration.
April 4th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
you got great handwritting!!! Mine is like little girl’s!
*sigh* did you find out why the staff turnover so high??
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April 4th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Blessed mom,
the other moms have asked.
I overheard the ‘after-reply’…. teacher’s mouth are zip zip zip…. no one is telling anything.
As for principal, she just say its the arrangement from ‘above’.
*eyes rolled*
April 4th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
I’ve had teachers call my daughter Aurora “Aura”.
April 5th, 2009 at 9:13 am
actually keat is pronounced as k-i-a-t if we read it in the english way. so it’s really not to be blamed. if we’re in the same dialect group, then we’ll know it’s pronounced as kit instead i guess.
so when naming our child, this’s one point to take note. i use hanyu pinyin instead of dialact name for my son. still there’re ppl who mispronounced yu as “you”. but it’s fine.
ive difficulties prounouncing uncommon english names like arianne, aurora, etc too. so sorry! cant help it.
April 5th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
erm…we, the people over here also known/pronouncing keat as “kiat”.
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April 5th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
it’s happen with Jason at school as well. The teacher not calling his name very right. Name “Jason” is American’s name not familiar for Dutch people..
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April 6th, 2009 at 11:14 am
My child’s English teacher doesn’t turn up for classes.
April 8th, 2009 at 9:34 am
i have similar problem, too. my son’s teacher calls him ‘wee jin’ instead of ‘wei jin’.
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April 8th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
I guess it is a forgivable mistake because of the spelling, but what the teachers should do would be to make a note of his pronunciation in the record book. Problem solved! :P
May 20th, 2010 at 6:32 am
Right to be unhappy.
Usually, P5,P6 will have permanent teachers cause they are having exams or going to have. Those lower primaries like p1 and p2 have younger teachers/relief teachers/contract teachers etc