Thanks for all the comments on that last post.  I have been shaking my head about that situation all weekend. In the interest of fairness to the kids and the other parents in the class, a few clarifications:

The kids are mostly rowdy during the “down time” portions of class, not during the instruction portion.  The [...]

Last week, Mr. A gave a Chinese New Year presentation to M’s 1st grade class.  I had mixed feelings about it initially, but after M came home from another parent’s Hanukkah presentation saying “Mama!  We learned about Hanukkah today! We at latkes!  It was sooooo cool.  I wish I was Jewish!!”, I changed my mind.  [...]

This weekend was the first weekend of Chinese school.  It is hard to believe that this is going to be our FOURTH year there.  Every year, chinese school is crazy chaotic.  This year was no exception.
Our Chinese school has two tracks for their classes: one for kids who speak Chinese at home and one for [...]

We are heading into our last week of summer break. I have to pat myself on the back and say that this summer was a good one. While I did complain a bit, I think both the girls and I have enjoyed it. No one died of boredom and my head didn’t explode from a [...]

I have been really sick for the past few days, but I wanted to respond to a few comments before I completely move on from this topic.  (Yes, I know most of you will be relieved when I move on, but I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t mindfuck it a little more.)
I was quite [...]