Today my eldest son, Hafiy came home with bayload of homework.But what really made him so worked out was his Bahasa Malaysia homework. We're barely been here for three years and Hafiy is still working on his Bahasa especially Penulisan or writing.Now, in secondary school the teachers will excpect you to be able to do everything individually and in a such short amount of time, which creates a lot of preasure on him.Eventhough he is only in form 1 (year 7),he already has frustration and preasure over his homework and he is so paranoid (is not a good sign!) about his attendance at school.It is because with the new system which has a test at the end of every topic or what we call PBS.The problem is..there is no specific date or time for PBS. So you will never know when your home from school and when is PBS..
Back to his homework, so..his Bahasa teacher give him an assignment which is to write an essay on Patriotism.Hafiy is known for his fear to his Bahasa teacher which is really inconvieniant for his learning process.So the teacher told him to write certain things in the essay that she wants to see.When I see him come home,he is always carrying a long face. I knew what was wrong.It usually be social problems or teachers or homework.I just ignored it for a while because I thought he was just tired and he didn't feel like going to swim practice and we will talk about it during lunch.But an hour later he came down with a book and a pen with a pair of baggy eyes (yes! he cried when get frustrated) trying to figure out what to write.As a mother..I tried to help him but I knew He knew what I was trying to say to him wasn't the answer he was looking for. He told me that the teacher wants to see a perfectly structured essay based on what she wanted and had to contain all the ideas from the example..(why can't the teacher let the student use their ideas with the help of the given example???).Well, you'd always get this kind of things around here.When you work your head off coming up with the ideas and you turn it in it's not what the teacher wants.You could say my son has native tounge issues.This is effecting his social endeavours too.The other kids say that Hafiy's basiclly an outsider because english is the only he's interested in.But it seems he's the only boy who is enthusiatic about english.Hafiy finally found what he was good at when he moved here.that is english.The other kids see him as some dictionary they can refer to.That what really makes him happy knowing what he's good at and helping other kids as well..
Well..if you ever have a child facing the same problem,you can always share them with me in this blog..
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