FollowToday is the graduation of Cass from SJKC Kuen Cheng 2. I’ve never revealed in my blogs where my girls attend primary school for their safety. Finally after 10 years, I can pull up the curtain as I bid adieu to this school. I will definitely miss going to this school. My 3 girls have created so much happy memories and made many good friends in this school. The teachers are dedicated, caring and hardworking. Cass has always had the best class teachers who are really concerned about her throughout her 6 years in the school. I’ve made friends with some of the teachers and with some of my girls’ friends’ parents.
January 2015 ~ Cass on her first day of school at Kuen Cheng 2 in Primary 1.
Nov 2016 ~ Cass with her trophy for good academic achievement when she was in Primary 2.
When Alycia was 5 years old, we had to start registering her into a primary school. Hubs only wanted SJKC Kuen Cheng 2 as it’s a top performance school. I had so much doubts that Alycia would survive a Chinese primary school as she was already struggling with learning in Chinese in pre-school (3QMRC). But hubs was steadfast with his decision to send his girls to a Chinese school. We are both yellow bananas and cannot guide our girls in Chinese.
As expected, the 3 girls struggled in a Chinese school, they hated studying in Chinese and they hated the corporal punishment typical of a Chinese school. They hated Chinese tuition and there were plenty of incidences of them hiding their tuition homework books and crying / sleeping / hiding in the bathroom during tuition. Ms M, the girls’ Chinese language tutor of 10 years told me frankly to look for another tutor for Cass as she was such a painful student to have! I couldn’t agree more with Ms M. But Ms M persevered and continued tutoring Cass until the end of November this year.
There were tears from the girls and from me for the past 10 years. There was lots of frustration, lots of hair-pulling situations, several phone calls from their school teachers, several meet-ups with their teachers but the 3 girls made it and graduated from this Chinese school, which is a high prestige school (Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi). Cass has even made it to the top 15% of her cohort throughout her 6 years in this school. I am so proud of my 3 girls for surviving a tough Chinese primary school. And I am so proud of myself for surviving 10 hair-pulling and head-banging years with them!!
Cass and I both attended the online graduation via Webex on our desktop PCs respectively today.
My camera-shy girl is forced to take these pix as her class teacher requires all the students to take a photo of themselves with some hand-written farewell notes in Chinese 😁.
And here’s the happy ending to Cass’ primary school series. A new chapter will begin soon and the story will center on yet another tough Chinese school (private Chinese high school which Alycia is currently attending). Totally NOT MY CHOICE but 100% Cass’ choice. My choice is for Cass to go to Sherilyn’s school. May God bless us both with another 5-6 peaceful, smooth-sailing and happy years with no more head-banging and hair-pulling moments! 🙏
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