I met a lady from Silver City lately. From her I heard of the following three youngsters.
Age Gender Passing subject
9 girl English
11 boy Science
13 boy Maths
The first two are brother and sister. This year, the boy is 13 and the girl is 9. At their respective ages listed, they failed all subjects except what is listed. The interesting part is their failures are all between 20 and 29%. All three of them go to Chinese Primary Schools.
One of my son's students, he is not listed above, he heard the information from me. He himself was scoring between 20 to 29% in all subjects when he came to us in September in Standard 4. He is 14 this year. He has caught up. For the last exam in 2019, he passed all subjects except History. Now and then he gets A s in Maths and English. He said that the fact that his parents sent him to a good English speaking Kindergarten helped him. He has a good foundation in English. No doubt he could not cope with three languages in the earlier years. Now that most subjects are in the national language, Maths and Science are in two languages helped him. It is possible for him to do well in three subjects.
His Kindergarten happened to be run by my church. It is indeed heart warming to know that he felt grateful to the good teaching he received there years ago.
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