@morgoodie/

Oh your chicken recipe makes my mouth water now!

Chicken with rice, a great combination, here locally we called it Chicken rice, where the chicken is roasted in the oven and the rice is cooked with the chicken excess oil plus lots of garlic and screwpine leaves.

I would be posting a recipe on that soon.

Oh yes, left over chicken…[Read more]

@kaka135/

I thought that even if one couldn’t pass the 40% marks, you could still go to the next level, isn’t it?

I didn’t pass my Chemistry, Biology , Additional Maths nor Physics.

I had selected the wrong medium. Science wasn’t my cup of tea.

However, I did continued to study Form 3, Form 4 and Form 5 with 20%-30% marks on those…[Read more]

@jentleheart You really made me laugh when I read “real-life pacmans”! 😀
I guess they are just too active and always need food to regain the energy.

Your boys are all so big now. It’s really wonderful for a mother to see the children growing up and becoming an adult, isn’t it?

Mine are just 7 and 4, and a baby coming very soon. So, mine are…[Read more]

@jentleheart Where I live, the majority of teachers spend out of pocket for their supplies. This is especially true of teachers who are beginning their first year in their own elementary school classroom. Such teachers may spend upwards of $1,000 to equip their classrooms with all the little things the school doesn’t provide.

@peachpurple $5 per student here wouldn’t even be a drop in the bucket for a teacher’s expenses.

In Canada it’s common for all students to pay the school a fee for consumable materials. This can be anywhere from $25 or $30 per year, all the way up to $100 or more per child per year. This is in addition to fees paid for field trips, school bus…[Read more]

@lolaze Lack of funding is rampant in special education! And yes, teacher’s editions of textbooks are hard to obtain. I know a lot of teachers will order a free exam copy of a book, teach with it for a year and photocopy from it to give the students their lessons. Then when the publisher wants to know if they will be ordering books for the…[Read more]

This may be true to some teachers and I applaud them because they are the real dedicated educators that persevere in teaching our children for a better future.

@Lee Ka my eldest is 22 years old and now in Law School. My second is 17 years old, a Freshman in IT. My third son, 15 years old is in 10th Grade and the youngest, 11 years old in 6th Grade.

My house is in chaos with four boys. Not that they are fighting with each other but they are most of the time asking for food! Lol They are like…[Read more]

@ruby3881/

in our country , every pupils and students had to donate $5 per year for miscellaneous fees.

This fees are used by the teachers to supply exercise books, stationary, art papers , craft supplies, dustpans and broom plus the wastepaper baskets for each classroom.

Hence, teachers do not have to fork out any money on their…[Read more]

@jentleheart It’s good to have four! 🙂 How old are your children?

Yes, I didn’t know all children can be so different until I became a mother and have two children, even though we guided them the same way. I am a supporter to screen-free especially for young children. Of course, we will have to expose the computer and Internet to them when they…[Read more]

I do think that this is really a great opportunity to know a different approach in rearinh our children.

As a mom of four, I have noticed the huge difference in terms of attitude of children towards education. The virtual world has somewhat corruipted the mind of our children in a way that some parents either fail to provide enough guidance or…[Read more]

When I taught, I used to spend so much on supplies!  You’re allowed to count $200 on your taxes but that barely touches it.  At one point, I had to buy a teacher’s edition of a classroom text book because the school wouldn’t buy one.  Buying workbooks to copy pages for the kids was common, etc.  Especially since I taught special education, my sch…[Read more]

@s-stephens It sounds like you worked with a great bunch of teachers! I’ve definitely known both teachers and teacher’s aides to look after their students in times when they had unmet needs. Yes, it is a labour of love.

I worked in the local school system here in Kentucky for several years. I can say without a doubt that many teachers here spend money out of their own pocket on their students. I was a teacher aide and I worked directly under many teachers. There was never a time that children had to do without if their parents could not or would not provide for…[Read more]

@slayer08 The teachers union here in British Columbia has recently asked the ministry of education to cease funding to private schools. We can only hope if that measure is taken, that funding for things like classroom supplies will become available.