Poor Pupil:-(

A friend had shifted to a new home. As such, she transferred her P2 son from "ABC Primary School" to "XYZ Primary School" which is near her home. Well, her son scored pretty well for his Chinese Language subject in ex-school, 95% overall.

One day, the Chinese Teacher was teaching about Chinese character, 开. She requested my friend's son to tell the class the HanYuPinYin for this chinese character. The boy was not able to tell the class. So, the Chinese teacher announced in the class by saying, "Class, you see, this pupil can't even tell the HanYuPinYin of 开 although he scored 95% in ABC Primary School" and so on (which I don't wish to elaborate).

My friend told me that the standard in ABC Primary School is not as high as compared to XYZ Primary School. In ABC Primary School, the Chinese Language exam would exam the pupils in the following method:-
开 _ai => pls fill in the missing character

ie. the pupils are not expected to write the whole HanYuPinYin kai1.

The child was hurt that he requested his mother to bring his ex-school's report card to "convince" his Chinese Language teacher. The mother had spoken to the teacher and the matter has since closed.

Young children are completely defenceless under the authority of parents and teachers. I can't comprehend why the teacher chose to handle the matter that way...