A Woman's Weekly

Big Sis excitedly showed me a leaflet / registration form to sign up for some computer grade exam. (She likes all kinds of registrations that look like she’ll win something. Competitive much?) “All the Kids at school are doing it!” says She.

But don’t you already have Computer lessons as part of your curriculum? asks Me. I’m sure grade exams are part of the lessons, no? Then I remembered that during Parents Briefing at the beginning of the year, the Discipline Teacher bragged mentioned how this school has won top place nation-wide (or state-wide, I can’t remember) for three consecutive years.

So I googled. As most parents do these days, doncha’llknow. No? Ok.

So here’s this ‘wonderful opportunity to try’ as quoted from a paragraph in the registration form.

I don’t know.

It sounds like a lot of pressure for a soon-to-be 8 year old. School work alone is a lot to handle everyday. My Kids are not computer nor IT illiterate as the leaflet seemed to imply regarding the opportunities presented through this ‘grade exam’. The Older Two Girls do online Mandarin tutorial for goodness sake. And my 4 year old is already playing Playhouse Disney Channel computer games online. Big Sis even knows to IM Uncle Bob from overseas!

The Hubby would say, why not? The Child says, come on Mommy, everyone’s doing it! (For reasons other than learning new skills I believe.) And the School says, yay, another top prestigious title on the shelf.

I don’t know.