goldfisch: a boarding school called my own

Freitag, Februar 25, 2005

.::. a boarding school called my own .::.

my d.d. says:

"There was an entrepreneur talk in the evening today, the speaker was this guy who actually started a company with himself and a secretary. A trading company on fuel oil, called Chemoil. And now, apparently the company's annual revenue is 350 million.... Makes me feel small man, that's more than NUS's turnover I think.... Anyway one of his reasons for going into business is that he wants to leave something behind or "leaving footprints in the sand" as he put it. I'm not so deep, I just want to make money.... But I guess its a pretty personal talk, cos it was about his experiences and all, makes me wanna go out there and do something too.

I have it all planned out really. First I will have a dream, or a goal. That is to buy my dear a school. Yeah u see correctly, a school. Be a philantrophist u know? I believe in education, (but not in MOE, they've gotten too big in the head) and my girlfriend wants the school to cater to the weaker students to prepare them for tertiary education (ie. kids who just need more time to learn rather than learn the syllabus.)."

ya, so basically, the gist of everything above is that my d.d. wants to buy me a school.. when i first heard it, i was like, "erm, how?" den after tat i started thinking and thinking abt wat kinda of school i want..

i had some classroom teaching experience before i came to nus.. and i was giving classroom tuition to this bunch of p6 em1/2 kids at tat time.. den one day, the principal informed me that there would be a new student in the class.. well, i guessed that was ok, until i knew that he was an em3 kid..

well, i wasn't really discriminating against him.. afterall i have a 5 yrs younger cousin who was in em3 and i love her dearly.. i was however more worried about not being able to keep him on par with the rest of the students.. but well, it was really not up to me to decide.. so there he was, in my class..

indeed, it was quite difficult to teach him wat i planned for the others.. and that's when i realised the importance of streaming in primary schools.. somehow, we really need to group the kids so that we can cater tailor-made kinda education to them.. but somehow the downside of this streaming is that those slower and weaker students are often discriminated against.. so, there was once the mother of this kid was telling me tat she and her husband was planning to send him to an overseas boarding school where the pace of education is slower.. ya..

den as i tot of this, i suddenly tot that maybe my school can be a boarding school.. for the weaker students -- those that are streamed to em3 basically.. and i want my school to provide an education for them to be able to enter university..

u see, wat happens is that once a kid is streamed into em3, he really has limited choice of his future education path.. if he's lucky, he will be able to enter normal (academic).. if his lady luck still kinda like him, he may be able to enter normal (technical).. if he is really suay, den tats it.. he will end up in ite.. not that i'm discriminating ite, but seriously, the way the moe decided to run ite is basically to dump whoever that cannot make it there.. and they will end up becoming wat, i've yet to find out.. but certainly no longer 前途光明..

so, instead of ruining those kids, if i ever going to haf a boarding school, i'm going to make their luck and change their life around.. 我就不相信他们是笨的.. ya, but like wat d.d. says, how to run this school is really unknown.. first the fees cannot be too high.. if the fees cannot be high den i must be rich.. haha.. oh well.. but we both agreed that education is not a profitable kinda career.. not like the way nus exploited our money.. oh well.. ya, so if really have such a school, 如果真的要亏本也没办法.. 最重要的是学生.. hee..

hee.. so imagine a boarding schools with many kids, studying together, playing together, living together.. a bit like totochan.. hee.. if u noe wat i'm talking abt.. hee.. ya, so i shall work hard to achieve this goal.. but of cos i have to at first fulfill the 6 years bond in moe.. but, it's ok.. i like teaching.. =)

luv,
xin *fuzzy*

goldfisch swim in @ 10:40 PM