Saturday, April 16, 2011
1st grade group parents meeting
Things the teacher talked about to all the parents of Xander's 1st grade, April 16, 2011:
Field trip to an aquarium this Friday costs 130 rmb. Kind-of a lot, the parents grumbled afterwards. Wear red clothes for easy identification. Not too much, though, because it will be nice weather [typical of Chinese concern over wearing the proper amount of layers].
The final examination will be June 20, or thereabouts.
Xander was singularly praised for coming to school early every day, even in the cold weather, to let the children in. [He holds the class key and is very eager to fulfill his duties.]
Teacher your child how to punctuate using ? . and , properly.
Start a new paragraph 2 character spaces in. Not 3, not 1. 2.
Xander was singularly praised for his use of good standard Mandarin, rather than the local dialect. Parents should try to teach their children some standard Mandarin [she said this using some local dialect, said my translator-student, who is from the Beijing].
Put homework papers in these nifty plastic folders commonly used here.
User an erase to erase mistakes instead of fingers.
Don't bring toys to class.
Math teacher up next:
Parents need to help students for good habits; for example, getting work done right away.
Students need to learn how to listen.
The higher the grades, the better the student. [At this point, my student-translator said he hated whenever his parents had to go to these meetings for him. He would get scolded afterwards because he was a bad student.]
The top 3 worst students in the class are: _____, _____ and ______. [She actually named them!]
Hiring extra private teachers is bad because students need to learn how to think for themselves and "parents are the best teachers." [quiet snickering from one parent at this]
Use a gray ruler, not a multi-colored one. Too distracting.
No comic books at school. Their contents can be too violent.
Children help each other. Be friends.
End of meeting: 4:00 = the meeting was a full 1 1/2 hours long
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We don't get such meetings here in Toronto, Canada, just 20 minutes, two times a year with the teacher. The meeting sounds productive and very Chinese style.
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I both love and hate the fact that they named the three worst students in the class! Did *every* parent attend the meeting? Is it a "typical" public school?
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