Mama is gonna stop my playgroup class already even though the programme is only ending on 21 Dec. Firstly, teachers are not caring and attentive. Only look after their regular kids and totally ignore the holiday programme kids. We had to sit facing the wall during snack while the regualr kids sit in the centre of the place.
Mama was told by the lady boss that there shouldn't be adult accompany after the 1st week and let teachers settle them. So happily, she thought Nai Nai could finally have 1 1/2 hours per day to do her grocery shopping or rest. But Nai Nai was asked to leave me after the 3rd day, never mind. Then I cried badly and the lady boss called Mama at work. Told her for holiday programme kids, "try not to scare the kids." So poor Nai Nai gotta run back to the school.
Upon reaching, she saw another mother hugging me, not the teachers! The mother told Nai Nai I only wanted her (guess that mother was the nicest person in class?!) Never mind. Then yesterday, Mama received a letter for excursion for next Wednesday. Got to pay and must have an adult accompany. Boring place---veggie farm. Instantly, Mama knew trouble is coming. She knew that that day will most probably have no classes because all the teachers will be out with the kids, right?! And she wasn't informed of this before signed up! So what if Mama doesn't want me to go. Nai Nai will be tired out. So no class, no refund?!
She went to ask the class teacher, and that shabby and untidy looking teacher looked awkwardly away and simply pointed to the lady boss, "Ask my supervisor." Mama felt like strangling her for her foul attitude. In the end, Mama didn't ask anyone else. She has decided to do something more because she realised it's useless even arguing about it. It wasn't money but a matter of principle.
If she was explained about the excursion, she won't feel so cheated. Never mind, again. Then today. Mama went to class with me. Upon arrival, no one, bothered to check me. (Health check). The teachers were around walking in and out of the classroom but didn't even bother to acknowledge us. Never mind, too.
So Mama took me to wash hands and when we came out of the toilet, another new girl came and was immediately attended to by that shabby looking teacher! (Prior to that, she saw Mama and I walked in and merely stared away!) I must say Mama was nice already. During her first session there, she was the only mother that made me hugged and said "Thank you" to the teacher before we left. None of the kids did that! Guess the teachers couldn't wait for them to go off anyway! Never mind.
The ultimate was this. Mama was busy attending to me during snack time. Gotta squeezed because the place was like less than 1 adult standing space. Yes, we holiday programme kids are left to "take care" of yourselves. If their parents left them there, too bad! So she left 2 pieces of tissues on the table and forgot to throw them away. After snack, she brought me back to the classroom after washing my hands. Inside the classroom with door still opened, she heard the lady boss sarcastically said aloud, "Who left the tissues here hah!? Children(The other older kids), can you do that?! ("No!" The kids replied)Ya, cannot do that!" And she kept repeating it for a good 2 to 3 times! Mama was so mad and if not for me clinging onto her! She wanted to storm out and give her piece of her mind!
She already didn't complain that teachers didn't look after me and made the parents do it already. So what's her problem!??? This, Mama said, "Cannot never mind!" It's personal attack! Think Mama is going to the forum soon!
And the teachers are so racist and biased. There was a new Indian boy who sat in the class by himself. While watching TV, kids being kids, he was excited and kept imitating the characters. The teachers scolded him for being noisy! And the whole time the teachers were sitting behind, tying hair for the other! And a granny was chit chatting loudly with them. Mama was tempted to tell her to shut up! Cos they were just next to her. I was distracted and kept looking at them, not watching TV.
During the boring Phonics activity (boring, because we had to sit with legs corssed throughout the session while the actitvity was singing!), the teacher sang, 'Jellybeans jumping, j j j..." So I stood up and started doing light jumping (no space). The teacher immediately told me to sit down! I was like, "Ok". But my peeved Mama whispered to me, "Well done, Lia. That should be the way. It's jumping jellybeans anyways!" HAhahaha...my Mama is a rebel!
All in all, Mama felt it's lesson learnt with painful separation of some money. Sometimes, somethings are really worth the money spent. She has learnt well. "So cheap, must be something wrong" is very apt for this school! But actually, not SO cheap!
And some people ought to think hard before starting a biz with kids. We're not just your typical mean of earning big bucks, like with grown women and their retail theraphy. We are fragile humans with delicate mind and souls. Sacarsm and all, not a very good moral value to teach young children like me. HER biz may last, but impacting lives, Mama back to differ.
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Oh dear that sch cannot make it! Your mama muz be very angry and disappointed so much so that she's forgoing the remaining sessions. Nvm, there are other better ones around.
This is just one person's opinion. DO you think the other students would have felt this way? Don't discriminate the school just because you find it not to your liking. And please, don't type in the viewpoint of your kids. THAT'S BEING BIAS. Put yourself in their shoes man. If you are the staff running the centre, how would you feel HUH ? TSK
O dear, I sort of agree with you Esther. I knew that Joyhouse had many students that have stayed with them since they were 18 months.
Joyhouse's objective is to create a joyful environment for them.
Feedback from parents are good and they are happy with the school. I am surprised why a young child can write so much negative comments.
I have checked with the teachers and was informed that the mother worked for a competitor school Character Montessori.
So is it a competitor sending a spy to dig information. At the same time make use of a child to post negative views. Why resort to such techniques.
O I see. Make use of a child to post such negative views and yet the school chooses to ignore them. They are just like Jesus, suffered in silence. Seriously do you think the school can take legal action against them for defamation for saying that Joyhouse Montessori Playgroup--Sucks Big Time!
First and foremost, I would like to appeal to the audience of this blog that this post was not authored by the child that is mentioned in this post.
Why? Because the English standard that is displayed in this post is way beyond the level of a 2 years old kid at that point of time.
Secondly, the author only posted mostly about what happened when both the child and the mother was there in the playhouse. However, Why did the child cry in the first place as mentioned in paragraph 2?
Obviously, there are many 'loopholes' and grey areas that are still undiscovered in this post. Hence, I can hereby conclude that the point of view that the author is appealing to us ( the audience ) is biased and does not give a all-rounded description about what exactly happened in the playhouse.
The grey areas and 'loopholes' will further be explained in my next few paragraphs.
1) The author has mentioned that ' there shouldn't be adult accompany after the first week and let teachers settle them. ' However, at the later part of the post, the mother of the child involved decided to accompany the child after the 'excursion' incident. Anyway, there is a reason why the playhouse doesn't want the adults to accompany their child in the playhouse because this will not allow the child to bond with the teachers and have a wholesome experience in that place.
Anyway, the author elaborated further on how the teachers there are biased. But honestly, in my opinion, do you expect teachers to look after your child when you as the parent is present in that situation, or would you pay further attention to the other children who are attending this programme but do not have adult accompany? Obviously, the answer lies within the second option in the question that is raised. This answers why the teachers did not attend to the child because there is already a presence of the parent with her!
2) I would like to offer my views about the 'excursion' incident. Did the playhouse mention that no teachers would be around when the excursion is taking place? According to this post, the answer is no. It is only through the mother's speculation to think that there are no presence of teachers to accomodate to the children's needs if they are not going for the trip. Hence, this does not mean that there will be no classes taking place during the conduction of the excursion. And obviously, as the author mentioned about ' no classes, no refund?' and the pathetic paragraph at the end to try and criticize the cost of this programme, it appeals more to me that this parent is more focused on talking about her money spent on this programme rather than the services that is offered in the playhouse, or perhaps that the parent is just trying to squeeze out an incomprehensible reason to get her refund, when actually, there is no such incident that happened in the playhouse?
3) The mother wanted to strangle the teacher for her file attitude. My question to the author is, What do you mean by 'foul attitude'? Do you mean that because the teacher referred the mother to the lady boss? If that is the reason why, I am seriously disgusted at your illogical reasoning. It is a direct protocol for staff to bring the issues or questions raised by the customer to the manager or someone with a higher position in the organization. So, the teacher was just doing her job by referring the mother to the lady boss, so that she can tell her directly about her concerns. As the post is ambiguous in terms of both its language and its content? Did the mother eventually talk to the lady boss?
The author then ended that paragraph by mentioning that 'it wasn't money but a matter of principle. ' Clearly, both the mother and the author contradicted themselves. If it was a matter of principle, they wouldn't have made such a big fuss over this situation. Besides, to me, the problem lies within the parent, and not within the playhouse. So I believe that the parent was just doing this for the sake of getting her refund instead of stressing on her 'principle' when she did not even do so in the first place.
4) I am disgusted with the parent's action about the tissue paper incident. It was the parent who had forgotten to throw the tissue papers away. Hence, when the teacher discovered it, perhaps he wanted to use this as an opportunity to teach the children in the playhouse to dispose their rubbish appropriately. Not only did the author/parent remarked on the teaching methods that are used by the teacher, the author mentioned that the parent wanted to give the teacher ' a piece of her mind '. This is absolutely ridiculous. You are criticizing harshly on a teacher trying to teach the students to have proper hygiene when you were the one who had started this problem. And the author phrased the situation in a poor attempt trying to make the problem lie within the teacher, but not at the parent, which is clearly the opposite.
5) The author accused the teachers of being 'biased' and 'racist'. However, the incident that the author described did not explain any of those characteristics mentioned above. It was perhaps only the boy who was trying to imitate the characters and disturbed the attention of the other children. Did the other children in the programme do the same thing? The author did not verify this point. Next, he decided to bring in the term of 'racist' just because this situation happened to the student. This is another pathetic reason to accuse the teacher of being 'racist'.
Anyway, being kids, if the teachers were making too much noise, the other kids could've simply asked the teachers to quieten down as they were distracted. However, I feel that the author was just trying to exaggerate matters because none of this occured. And it was just simply because the parent/child thought it was too loud as they were sitting next to them.
6) I am indeed shocked that the author called the Phonics activity boring. To me, the activity clearly enhanced the students' learning experience by introducing songs to teach them Phonics. Besides, the child jumped when they were singing the song. So how can this prove that the activity was boring? And a note to the parent, if your child grows up and enters the various education institutes, how can your child face lessons or lectures if you consider this activity as boring, as they are even more dry than this?
To sum up, the author tries to come up with pathetic means to defame the playhouse. This post clearly shows that the problem lies within the parent and not within the playhouse. I would also like to appeal to the audience that this post is extremely biased. Once again, the situations that are described in this post are very ambiguous and were not accurate due to the amount of contradictions and grey areas that are in the post itself.
Hence, this post cannot determine the services that are offered in the playhouse that is involved.
I thank you for your kind attention.
OMG. SHE'S A TEACHER AT ANOTHER SCHOOOLLL ????
Ok I think firstly, you should brush up on your english, and it certainly isn't practical for you to post such negative comments IN THE NAME OF YOUR CHILDREN. Which responsible parent would do such a thing? Furthermore how many "mama"s and "nai nai"s do you have? It is also very unlikely that an extremely young child would find a veggie farm boring, so it seems that that is YOUR opinion, not that of your children. What do mean "Mama knew trouble is coming"? It sounds as though you expected this to happen. And which mother wouldn't want their child to go to a veggie farm? Even if you didn't want your child to go for that excursion, how is it possible that you expected a refund? You weren't informed of this? It seems more like YOU were just ignorant about it. My cousins have been there before and they have always been treated well, contrary to everything you have said. Even when my cousin's were noisy, the teachers would scold them and I do not see what seems so wrong about that? Its merely teaching a child to know when to speak and when not to. Even if the teacher doesn't scold the indian boy you mentioned, he'll eventually be scolded one way or another by someone else in the future. In fact, it shows that the teachers are concerned about the children's upbringing. If you're so adamant on the reason "kids being kids", you might as well be more gracious to that granny who was speaking very loudly. After all, "old people are old people" and isn't it common that old people speak relatively louder then the younger generation? To think you even thought of asking her to "shut up" ? It just shows what kind of mother you are and how you are bringing up your child. "Mama felt like strangling her for her foul attitude"? How barbaric can you get? To even mention strangling someone in the name of his/her child! A good parent wouldn't settle things in such a manner but rather in a more civil way. It also certainly seems that this post isn't written by your child or that such thoughts COULD even come from a young child.
Its also too much an exaggeration to say that the snacking area is of "1 adult standing space". Its also more of your opinion when you stated "We holiday programme kids are left to take care of ourselves", and to me THIS is more likely a PERSONAL ATTACK, to bring down the reputation of this learning centre, which has in fact actually performed beyond my families' expectations when my cousins were there. Furthermore, I don't see much of a problem in a teacher teaching the students not to leave tissue paper or their rubbish behind on the table, and how is it that the "lady boss" spoke sarcastically unless she knew who left the tissue papers on the table? It is also so rude and unfair of you to justify the teachers there as being racist and biased as I have mentioned about the treatment of the indian boy. It is also certainly surprising to see that a phonics activity would be boring to a young child. Even more so for a parent to find phonics activities boring and unnecessary for their children when such activities greatly contribute to the children's foundation for the English language.
Based on what you said, I assume the teachers DID NOT instruct the children to jump along to the song so naturally it is wrong of the teacher to tell your child to sit down. But what next? You actually encouraged your child to continue doing so which is equivalent in encouraging your child to be a rebel! Which will only make your child suffer when he/she grows up and tries to find a place in society. You also made it seem that BOTH you and your child are PROUD that you're a rebel which is ridiculous as to how a parent can teach such bad values for their children! Joyhouse HAS impacted lives and take the children in their care as their first priority, unlike what you have stated, they do not treat them as their "typical mean of earning big bucks". All in all I haven't even seen such feedback coming from other parents who send their kids there and if I were a parent, I would rather look up on constructive feedback suh.pported with facts. Not some groundless essay with broken english
To clarify my comments, the playhouse that I have mentioned is actually Joyhouse.
If you have so much time on your hands to rant here, why don't you go look after your daughter yourself?
O my goodness she is from a competitor's school?? No wonder. But why resort to such means? Call herself a Christian? Why so unforgiving if you seriously are one? Why create a mountain out of a molehill and intentionally created such fonts to capture attention? It seems you are all out to destroy the school. I think the things you mentioned is rather petty. Sad to say, you are such a bad testimony to your faith. BTW does anyone think she can actually be sued?
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