Sherilyn has been pestering me to send her to this daycare that her best friend, B attends since B was in Standard 1. This daycare provides daily tuition as well. Most of the teachers from this daycare are from the school that Sher and B attend. B has been a top student in her class since Standard 1.
Sherilyn scored an A for all her subjects except for her Chinese language papers during the recent Mid Term Exam. She scored B for both the papers. Because of this, it has pulled her position to a really pathetic placement as the majority of her classmates scored an A for their Chinese papers. Every mark counts in the positioning system. A loss of 10 marks will pull your position down by 10 placements.
We have a tutor who comes in to teach the 3 girls Mandarin 3x a week. This teacher would focus on Alycia more as she has more exams to sit for (4 exams a year vs 2 exams for Sherilyn) and much more to study for.
Every lesson without fail, Ms M the tutor will be reprimanding Sherilyn as Sherilyn is the type who simply cannot sit still and does not have as much interest in academics as Alycia.
Sherilyn is one who will jump up from her chair the moment the house phone rings and the door bell rings. She will walk up and down to while away time, just so she does not have to sit at the table. Mandarin bores this girl to the core but her daddy is still adamant that she should be in a Chinese school as he has a very bad impression on SRK government schools.
Chinese schools are well known for their strict discipline and dedicated teachers. The school that Alycia and Sherilyn go to is a semi-government, semi-private school. We parents have to contribute towards the expenses of the school.
Thus, I strongly feel that if Ms M focuses more on Alycia and Cass while Sherilyn goes to the daycare to get tuition daily, it will benefit all my 3 girls, though this will mean that the hubs would have to fork out an additional RM530 per month on Sherilyn.
I am gamed to try out this arrangement for one month. Sherilyn is the type who will flourish when she is with her peers, in a fun environment. She is the sociable type who learns better if she can also talk, laugh and play. She is definitely not the type who will thrive in a strict classroom environment.
I will bring Sherilyn to check out this daycare cum tuition centre today. Hopefully this arrangement will benefit and make everyone happier. I know Sherilyn will be happier as she gets to be with her BFF even after school and will have more friends to socialize with while learning. She was beaming with joy when I told her yesterday that I may consider sending her to B's daycare centre.
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6 comments:
If it brings the best out of Shellryn.... Then you should go for it.
If you can afford it and she loves the arrangement, then by all means go for it. Like you said, try it out for a month and see. If you see positive results, why not right?
Is it possible to have a trial of a month or 2? And let S know it is an added expense and you would have to monitor her grades( and behaviour too) during this period in order to justify the $. This way she shares responsibility for her school work and hopefully develops lifelong habits.
Joanne, thanks
Chris, yes we are going to try her out for 1 - 2 months after the Raya holidays here. And I have told her that if I do not see any improvement in her grades, she'll have to stop going there.
Since she requested, just put her in day care. She can be independence, have more friends and learn new things in the day care.
Very seldom children love to go day care, if Sherilyn loves it, no harm trying.
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