18 October, 2011

Yesterday was Parent's Meeting of HKBUAS.

Martin and I were there around 6:10pm though the meeting with 訓導主任 was scheduled at 6:30pm. We were there earlier but Mr. Chan received us immediately.

Frankly, I was that very pleased to learn that we had to meet the 訓導主任 for it meant to me that Mike had done something wrong and therefore we had to hear from him.

Anyway, we were happy to see him as we knew him (he taught Mike two subjects - L.A. and Chinese before). The following is what Mr. Chan shared with us:-

His purpose of inviting us - 想讚紀梓烽. 他好有禮貌. 他一直仍然有主動跟陳偉藝老師. 不但面對面有主動到叫他, 有時陳老師並沒有見到他, 梓烽亦有叫他. 還有的是其他老師也覺得他有禮貌. 我告訴陳老師紀梓烽是一個重感情的人.

Importance of Friendship Building - He shared with us that his very best friends are those from primary school and also it is vital for future development. Mike should start his friendship building so that he can have different levels of friends, best friends, good friends, socal friends, etc. As friends can share frank opinions and Mike can learn from them.

Mixture of Academic & Creativity - Mr. Chan doesn't agree that children should be very obedient and strong in Academics. He further shared that those flyers of 10A in HKCEE are nothing special. Rather those who are active/naughty with creative and average in Academic can do even better. Communication is very important for our future. From what he observed, G6 is creative while G5 is academic. Being having a mix of the two, Mike has his own advantages.

The effect of impact - Children should have chances to be challenged. He told us his experience in primary school, from village to city and he had to be lowered two forms in order to catch with the schedules as there was no way that he could compete with those in the city. Then at the age of 11, his family moved to HK and it was anothe impact to him. Though he was in a Band 5 school which only 5 of them studied while the rest took drugs. He didn't get the bad influence from them at all.