Waterloo... Couldn't escape if I wanted to...

[cario]

My home is an exclusively English speaking home. Chris can spell English words he's only just heard for the first time. Yet, because of our educational culture where Higher Chinese is valued, emphasized and relied upon as a measure of academic success despite English being our official language of business, he has had no choice but to spend a

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[bits_n_bites]

Hi Carol, I can totally emphasized with you since Andrea is in P 6 this year and taking higher Chinese too. The benchmark for Higher Chinese is really high and I must say the disparity of this subject amongst kids is very great too since there are kids that come from a totally English speaking family, or partial Chinese speaking or from the PRC. So I guess that adds on to the stress especially if the kid is in the better class.