It's 1:46 in the morning and I can't sleep. I had such a stressful day I don't know how to move forward. I don't even know how to smile. Every problem I hear and receive from parents paralyzed me to death to tell you the truth, Oakridge has always been my greatest weakness. It haunts me to my very core that parents complain about the school being loo...relaxed. At first I don't really understand what they are talking about because we give numerous home works the kids even stay up till wee hours in the morning to finish them. But what they mean by relaxed is we do t give tons of "busy work" - stuff students from other schools do to look busy. Example, 1. Getting definition from dictionary. ( duh! You can check it by double clicking the word at Microsoft word or Mac). .2. Enumerating bunch of stuff from the book. ( double duh! Not only stupid but waste of time). 3. Memorizing ( you know what memorizing bunch of trivial stuff do in life of a person - NOTHING). Being compared to local schools is simply an insult. Why will you compare us to schools that makes children memorize skeletal system in grade 1? How stupid can the parents get by tolerating child abuse? Not only is it developmentally inappropriate ( meaning children at that age shouldn't be doing such), it's plain STUPID. Oakridge is again about critical thinking, answering questions, speaking in front, and being able to analyze things logically. Oakridge is aboutprepRing the next generation for life and for college. Oakridge is about raising smart students who will have a firm grasp of how to live, what are important and who we are. I just hope parents understand it. The way I look at it, parents themselves don't know what should really be taught at school. They themselves are clueless as to how they raise their children and their roles in raising the kids. This afternoon, one of the moms at schools shared her problem with her firs born ( who never studied at Oakridge). She said her son used to begood academically. But when he started joining milo sports stuff, he got barked a (friends) who taught him vices. The kids now flunked most of his subjects for consecutive times and might be dismissed at his college. What does that tell you? When parents are not clear of what the role of the school is, things like that happens. When parents understand that thinking, good decision making skills and work habit matters most over memorizing bunch of useless trivial facts, we raise responsible and logical young Filipinos who will definitely change th landscape of Philippine society.
But of course, parenting involves a lot of prayer on the part of parents and grace from GOD.