My
son is 2 1/2 years old. We want the best for our son. After survey a few pre
school in the market, we decided to go with **** eventhough it is quite far
from our house and our work place. But we were willing to sacrifise for our
little son. My hubby and I are working in the same place but for our son sake
we were willing to make some changes and sacrifises just to see the output that
the school can offer. My hubby will be sending my son by motorbike as the
school situated in crowded area during peak times and I will be driving car to
work. So there will be different transportation each day to work and to go back
home. But wat the heck. Anything for our son.
The
fees is quite expensive than the rest of other pre school that we surveyed. We
paid around RM1,000++ for yearly fee and monthly fee we took half day lesson it
was around RM400 because we included with lunch. We can't afford to take our
son at 12 because both of us are working and our lunch time is about 1-2 pm.
The school doesn't give and take in this matter. I wonder why they don't
provide an easier flexible time for picking up children. It is quite not
convenient for us and I think other parents also facing the same problems.
Unless you are a housewife or you have a driver to pick your children at 12.
Anyway we try to accommodate to the troblesome rules. In the afternoon we will
be sending him to nursery. We are paying for two things here.
Now
after 4 months sending my son, I have a few dissatisfaction.
1)
the brunch that we send is a new place. I was glad because all the
facilities are new. But, I was inform that the teacher for the playhouse is not
hired yet. There are short of staff. How do I know this because I ask the
caretaker what did he learn today. I appreciate the caretaker to tell me
sincerely because they are taking care of our children. My son is my biggest
priority in my life so I need to know everything going on with him. Anyway, i
must say thank you for telling me the truth. But, on the other hand, we were
paying a month without learning anything. It is only like a nursery. It was
very frustrating because we were wasting on the petrol, energy and our time in
the office. Sometimes, I thought we should be refunded. Dah laa mahal. We want
to make our every cent worth the money for our son education.
2)
From my observation, they are not good at taking care toddlers. Maybe, they are
good at teaching but not taking care toddlers. For example, I received
complaints from nursery that they don't change pampers and the pampers were
very heavy. I told the school to change pampers before I pick my son. At first
they always forget but after awhile they managed to do it. One of the
incompetence that I can observed. Other than that, there want me to marked using
a marker pen on my son bottle. It's not the outside part. The inside part.
Because avent bottle have a little circle for not making the milk drip and to
trap the air. It is ridicolous. I will not use any chemical on my son's drink.
I would consider, if it on the outside. Even the nursery don't have problem
with that. And the nursery never mistakenly switching bottles with other kids.
The schools always have problem. tertukar botol la...tertinggal barang laa..
But now, there are getting better managing. Fuhh...make me all stressed up.
3)
I don't expect to pay any hidden cost after we settled to pay the yearly fees.
We already managed our financial and it is a strict one. The school wanted to do a
sports day. Fine with that. But they asked us to pay RM100. We decided we don't
want him to participate with the sports because the stupid RM100. We know the
management is rich and they thought RM100 is a small value but for us, we could
use it for something more important than the sport day for a 3 year old. The
sport day was very extravanganza, I saw on the the school fb. For me, it is a waste
of money. In islam we were enforced on sifat bersederhana. Saturday and Sunday
was the sports day so monday there declared holiday because they said everyone
already bersusah payah for the sports day. On Monday they only take full day
children. Did you know, we had to send our son to the nursery and we had to pay
for extra hours. Waste of our money some more. I think the school thinks if the
half day children there have bibik at home to take care kot. Another thing, we
did not participate with the sports day so we are not paying the RM100 but they
still forced us to pay eventhough my husband said he will not be paying for
that. Kang makan duit tak halal baru tahu.
4)
The school likes holidays. Kalau cuti sekolah dorang pon cuti jugak. Why can't they
consider this as work. You just have your holidays during public holidays not
the school holidays. I don't think the children want the holidays tu sangat pon
because they enjoy to go to school with their friends, they can play games,
sing songs etc. I think yang nak cuti are the teachers. Boleh tak anggap ni
bekerja bukan bersekolah? We need to pay extra to the nursery. Letih, duit
parents nak tapi cuti byk lak.
5)
The school have alot of extra co-curiculum like bengkel solat etc. But, most of it
you have to pay extra. I can't be bother to join. I think if they really do as
a jihad they should give it for free or very low price. And some more, I think,
if your silibus are good enough, we don't need extra bengkel.
It
is like, if the school teachers are good at teaching and the students
understand the lesson very well you don't have to send your children to tuition
pon.
6)
There were once sambutan Maal Hijrah or something, can't really recall. They
ask the parents to bring food for celebration. If the school wants to do extra
activity they should be providing but there asked us parents to bring. Semua ni
extra money kan. You should state in the fees. Senang parents nak budget. Pls
don't say we are kedekut, we are the customer, you are providing the service.
So we have the pengguna rights. Tak kisah sedekah tapi not like this. We are
buying services from you so you should provide the service that we have pay for
and not incurred cost some more. They asked us to pay for science apparatus,
but I never see the tools. It cost like RM100. I feel they are only interested
in our money more than berjihad.
7)
There were time, my son have a bad diarrhea. I need to ask the care taker what
did he eat, then the teacher respond in a quite defensive ways. "What are
trying to say, is it from our food. Other children don't have this
problem". I was quite surprised. I need to ask because I was sending my
son to a nursery so I need to figure out weather the school or the nuresery food
or home food. Yg tuh pon terasa. Not professional at all. My son is my best
interested. Of course, I will asked every single thing...hmmm...
8) about graduation day. They held it in PICC. It was grand than it sounds. As usual, parents have to pay up for clothes etc. Siap ada scroll in a booklet form like in a university. All that costs the parents money. I think my son only was on a stage like a few minutes. not worth it at all. He did the fashion show and being guided by the teachers.
9) The science kit. urrghh...very disappointing. The quality of the toy is not worth the money at all. He got a float boat with an engine that have to be twisted. Tak sampai 5 minutes already broken. Wasting money.
My
son don't talk alot. He follows his daddy. So it is quite difficult to ask what
he learn from school. I had to depend on the teachers to give me feedback. So
far I noticed, he can sing rhymes such as twinkle2 little star, baba black
sheep, old mcdonald etc. How do I know because when I sing some of the rhymes
he will do some of the actions or sing the last words. Doa makan also he can
say the last words. I wish I could see how the teach my son. I don't know
weather it is effective or not. Just to depend the output they promise through
observing what my son action. This year is a trial year, if we are not satisfied,
maybe we will not continue the following year.
This
is my opinion in my personal journal.
If
you are doing business these are the things you have to faced with. Takkan nak
asyik kene puji. Kalau kene komen you need to accept it too. For me, it is a
comment membina. You need to improved to succeed. I loved your school and the
concept but there still rooms for improvement.
