Awards…  nichts, zilch

Student of the Year award Attendance Award Enthusiastic Learner Award Homework Hero Award Kindness Ambassador Award Best Listener Award Helping Hand Award If you are in Philippines, these are some of the awards/medals / certificate that a student received after finishing school next to being Summa Cum Laude/ Valedictorian. You name it, they got it. …

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Off to Gymnasium

After months of hard work, girl finally got her head on the right track and received the recommendation for Gymnasium. It is a German school system I suppose where kids are segragated based on their capabilities. It is NOT a perfect system in my opinion because kids especially boys could be late bloomer and then…

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Foreign Languages

From Grade 5, English is mandatory as 1st foreign language and they need to decide which 2nd language they want to learn also: latin/french/russian. In the coming months, a decision needs to be made on which school the girl will go next for grade 5. Wish us luck! These choices on languages made me wished…

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A Cursed Book

My girl kept telling me that her Sachunterricht book in school is hunted or cursed. Not understanding what she meant, I went through the book and saw this picture. Coming from Philippines where this topic is a taboo back in the 80s, it was a bit vulgarish for me for a school book. I do…

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