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all i can say is... wow!

as someone who runs a school, i am ALWAYS aware that i am a temporary fixture in the child's life (hopefully a memorable one), but that the PARENTS are in the driver's seat. i can make gentle suggestions on how to handle "problems", but it is NOT my place to tell parents how to parent their children. i can only offer advice and suggestions and my own experience as a teacher and a mother, but by no means do i believe it is my place to enforce those ideas on others.

i am also completely aware that although i have a waiting list, my reputation is what matters to me. i have made exceptions to every rule i've made when individual circumstances are taken into consideration.

ie. if a lesson is cancelled/unattended by a child due to illness a dr certificate must be presented in order to receive a make-up class. HOWEVER, i have one mother who has been battling cancer. FOR HER, i told her that if she ever felt unwell, just let us know. we would have our schedule fit her. we would do our best to get her daughter into the number of classes that she had paid for and i guaranteed her that she would not lose any $ due to the fact that she was suffering nausea or any other symptom of the chemo that she was undergoing.

parents are the bread and butter of the business of education. if you cannot maintain good relations with the parents, it won't be long before your reputation suffers and you begin to lose students....
 
thank you neha for sharing your experience with us. i am sure most parents with school aged kids will benefit from your warning and avoid CDB at all cost. i know, i for one, will! good luck.
 
cyberashlee: hope we can meet up on 31st may for krish's farewell. so much to talk it is unbelievable. as u thought S would be the next one to leave.U have written exactly what we feel and couldnot agree more with what u have written about her behaviour and issues with certain kids and families
If she threatened S with kicking him out and throwing is things I would Complain to ED , though I dont think they will do anything but they should know that this school is scaring kids.

Somebody told me she hada rough childhood if that is true and she has turned out to be so vicious she should stay away from kids ( my opinion)

Anyway no reply froms chool about the belongings and no reply from ED either , we are in Shanghai when we get back will contact ED again.

I would seriously ask parents before enrolling their kids in CBD to ask questions like

How many AMI trained teachers in each class. as they mention 2 and right now there is 1 in e ach class

secondly what is the age of kids in casa? normally montessori works best when kids range from 2.5 to 6 in casa class. like in our class. 99% of kids were all born between sept 2006 and march 2007 so there was no older kids teaching/helping younger kids.

also ask about the teachers experiences? what we found that some teachers were just fresh out of school with very little practical.

as CBD is mainly Expats most kids tend to stick to English teacher and chinese teacher is left to do art and looking after kids. so when they say the teacher o child ratio is 1.14 is not true .it i smore like 1.20/22 as most kids stick with the English teacher

Ask her about Verbal, Written reports and Observation schedules. Like in our case we were not there during the verbal report they refused to have another day for us.

Of course they should ask he school about food policy.

I just think parents should really question this school alot before deciding. as IMS is opening another branch in Mid Levels

Happy Baby: I cannot decide for other parents but I am just telling them about what happened with us. I have been one of the biggest supporters of this school and I just feel that concern and love that they showed earlier is a farce.

Right now we have tried contacting my son's teacher and no reply from her either. Thought that she cared but apparently not enough.
 
or she could be in fear of losing her job> from the sounds of things, the principal would have the teachers on very short leashes...
 
yes she does that is why we sent her a message thru other ways without the school knowing but will see if she gets back. if not then no big deal
 
neha really sorry to hear about your experience! definitely won't be sending my son there.

my brother when he was in grade 1 had a similar experience where the teacher picked up a pair of scissors and cut off his 'tail' (hair) which was really short anyways, my mother had a fit and stormed into the school in a rage... it really affected my brother and he still remembers it...

hope your son is feeling better...
 
Sorry you've had this bad experience Neha. Thanks very much for posting this and warning the rest of us off.
 
no problem my son is fine we are in shanghai enjoying my nieces and the expo. i just wanted other parents to question the school more than what we did and not suffer like my son,
 
Geez! Thanks SO much for your post, Neha, we were thinking of putting our boy in this school, well, not anymore! This Director person really sounds mental! And it's supposed to be a really upmarket Montessori school? I just hope that the invisible hand of the market force will eventually weed out baddies like this!
 
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yes it is a private school and solely run by the Director and that is why she can make any rules when she wants.

The Director does come across initially as a very caring person but eventually her true colours come out
 
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neha
heard about this from a fren whose kid is also in CDB and had some awful experiences too (she is leaving in June too). When she first told me about it, i was pretty shocked and commented "but neha had always been a supporter!" How could she!

I'm completely horrified after i've read it. I hope EVERYONE will know of her awful doings and if the Education Bureau do not do something, that hopefully, slowly, all parents would boycott the school and let the school rot and close down. Urgh!
 
i think u should post this in Education thread so that new parents looking for schools will see this and BE AWARE!
 
when i went for the visit at CDB, i disliked the director immediately, and decided no to put ourselves down on the loooong waitlist. am i glad or what??

reading about everything she's done to kids and parents, i am obviously shocked, but not terribly so, as she definately looked like the type; scary, unreasonable, uncaring, controlling.

i feel bad for the kids who are still in the school...
 
well i finally got my son's clothes and drawings back from the school. After writing to them 3 weeks ago about them I went there personally and was informed by the receptionist that she was going to send it by post but was too busy.

Didnt go in the school and didnt see the teachers nor the Principal.

Have asked them to confirm if they will send my son's written report at the end of the term. Waiting for the reply.

Kids are happy in the school generally. My son was always happy to go the school. The issue is not the school or teachers but the principal and if she picks on one kid or parent then she will make life miserable.

Someone had mentioned in geoexpat that the principal is treating this whole matter as if my son never went to her school. She is keeping quiet and hoping that things will die down and nobody will mention it. Eventually it will happen and she will go around behaving like a dictator again.

I will say my son has very good memories of the school not of the prinicpal.

Anyway Education department has done nothing it has been 3 weeks since our last email to them and they have not gotten back to us. We called them and they said that they are still investigating.
 
Quick update. We got our son's progress report last night. Was not expecting it but dont know if the ED forced her to give us the report earlier.

Report was correct and just found it odd that at the end of the report they wrote that the school would love to hear how our son was progressing in his new school. Really!! She didnt care that she threw him out of school without thinking twice and now the pretense of caring.

I guess this is their standard format for all reports. Anyway am glad that we got our report and dont have to bother with this school ever again
 
Congrats for getting back your stuffs and the much needed report with minimal fuss Neha!

If ED will not act (since this is a private school and i suspect they couldnt care less), we should do our part and spread the word thru the strongest advertising format - WORD OF MOUTH!
 
Hey Neha, Just read what happened to you! Wow...
I'm so sorry!!

Glad everything is ok now and hope you are enjoying your new home and K is enjoying his new school.

xx
 
Thanks MM

K has adjusted well and has just started liking his school. Getting used to a new life and exploring a new city
 
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