These days VS My days

On chu san, jm went to his primary sch teacher hse to bai nian. She told jm and his frenz tt these days they cannot use any physical punishment on the kids like 罚站，打手心 etc. The teachers can only COUNSEL them. This is simply because parents will complain.

This remind mi when i was primary school. Think Pri 4. My chinese teacher,( u noe la, chinese teacher usually is those old old one) would pulled ears, slapped us on the face. Really hard. And its maybe juz for a mistake like failing 听写。Anyway i dun think failing is a mistake. Cos its not something everyone will pass de though they gt studied @ home. However, i nv heard any parent, at least not my batch, complaining. I think maybe the students also felt paisei to tell their parent cos they did badly or did wrong stuff. Apparently, i think its differet now.

I rem the very last time i went back to visit my sec sch teachers, i tok to my emath teacher. He told mi nowadays students very hard to teach. Even harder than teaching my clsmates and mi. Mind u, he got 30 something yrs( its something tt he always emphasized) of teaching math experience and he actually dun use the textbook. He got his own set of maths teachin notes. The textbook was needed only when we wanted to do the practice questions. He said he got this student who got his parents to complain to the sch tt he dunno how to teach simply cos he( my teacher) dunno the stuff well. KNS~

But one thing i envied abt the kids nowadays is most of them noe how to speak english @ a young age cos their parents usually are english educated. I come from a dialect and chinese speaking family. So no one taught mi how to speak english since young. Even there are relatives who noe how to speak english, they also nv teach mi. Simply becos most of them sux. One day i will tok abt them here. Really sux. Anyway I learnt my first few words in kindergarden i guess. ABC also in K1.

Before kindergarden, i was a kid who always played at the playground, running ard with my cousins and brothers. Cant rem much also la. Beside dunno how to speak and write english, I also dunno anything. I may noe how to do nonsense things like riding in motorised vehicles, playing games. Unlike this days, a lot of kids @ young age alr speak good english and learnt to use PC, swim etc.

I dun blame my mother for not letting mi learn swimming or other things. Cos my family financial status doesnt allow mi to. And unlike my brothers, i am the fourth child so i dun haf edusave. Govt doesnt gif mi money yearly. I rem when i pri 3/4, there was this camp organised by the school. Its not compulsory and i think can only use edusave to pay lor.

So till today i still dunno how to swim. Not tt i dun wan to learn now but i also paisei leh. Imagine u go the swimming cls, all young young kids and u the only adult there... My frenz who volunteered to teach also give up on mi cos i simply cannot bring my head up the water to breath. I given up hope le.

Coming back to the topic... though my childhood is not as "enriching" as the kids now, i am happy. At least whenever i get punished, i would realise my mistake. I think a little punishment like standing is okay but not like wat my teacher did-slapping.

Toking abt standing, I rem one of my clsmate in sec sch. Its history lesson and the teacher was like testing the cls by asking one by one. So if u get wrong, then u will haf to stand on the floor. If wrong again then will stand on the chair. And if wrong again, u would have to stand on the table. I dun wan to mention my this particular clsmate name la. But these in my cls might rem. He stood on the table lor. think he the only one or wat. So funny. But its funny at the same time i was praying for him cos his hair quite near the oscillating fan lor.