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To: TobagoJack who wrote (64159)5/25/2005 12:48:09 PM
From: Slagle  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
TobagoJack, Re: "Chinese Schools" My son attended a Chinese school in the Philippines for his kindergarden. It was a small school K-12 with I guess maybe 1000 students. The town was a sort of provincal boom town with a busy port and an engineering school and two colleges. There was a Catholic grade school and also the public schools. It was a good school and lots of the local Pinoys sent their children there so that they would learn Chinese. I would be suprised, though if a graduate there would be as well educated as a graduate from a good American public school. On the other hand the school didn't turn out any duds as many US grade schools do, the school teachers in the Philippines don't have to put up with any monkey business from disruptive students, none at all. They also used lots of private tutoring with the gifted students, with the tutor going to the students home after school or on weekends.

The school paused for the Rosary Prayer and afternoon Prayers too; Filipino Chinese are just as Catholic as any Pinoy, for the most part. And things there, including school shut down at noon for a two hour lunch and nap period. Everything is slow and laid back in the Southern part of the Coconut Republic.

I went to PTA meetings and other school affairs and enjoyed it a bunch. The PTA meeting would start in English (out of courtesy to me) but soon move on to Visaya and Chinese with everybody (except me) talking at once.
Slagle
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