His Class Teachers - Std 1 & Std 2

His Standard 1 Class Teacher

• She would not let them do most of the work themselves and insists that they copy word to word from the blackboard, including making sentences in Chinese.  My boy and some of his classmates get ear squats for doing the assigned work on their own.  His BM teacher does the same too, let them copy their work but will not reprimand them.
• She is very strict and reprimands her pupils for every single minor mistakes but she hardly raises her voice.
• She is approachable and always wears a friendly smile and she still says Hi to me everytime she sees me, probably because I am one of those mommies who would ask the most questions and that's why her deep impressions on me. Hahaha..
• The amount of homework given is reasonable, probably because they usually come home with copied answers and thus not so much homework that needed the mommy's full attention.
• She can't accept being told of her own mistake.  At one time when I asked my boy to point out to her that she mistakenly gave a mark lesser to his Maths exam paper, my boy gets 20 times ear squats.  Reason? For not telling her earlier despite the fact that the paper was only returned the day before.

His Standard 2 Class Teacher

• She is not as strict and hardly reprimands her pupils, only on occasions when the pupils did not pass up homework repeatedly.
• She always looks stressed up, hardly see her wearing a smile, probably overworked as she is also involved in the school's administrative work.
• She likes telling moral and motivational stories to her class.
• She likes her pupils to be independent, (I love the word independent and would like to think so anyway though my patience is wearing thin, ultra thin), giving out pages and pages of homework that requires a fully committed home tutor (i.e. yours truly) to coach, guide and see him through the mountain pile of homework.  On any day, it can be 2 pages of writing, 2 pages of building sentences, 3 pages of activity book and another 2 pages from the monthly assessment workbook and all these are for only one Chinese subject.  To make things worse, his BM teacher is exactly the same same as the class teacher when it comes to giving out homework.
• I hardly talk to her as being my boy's 2nd year in the school, I am fairly familiar with the school operations and  find no questions to approach her, not yet. 

Putting yourself in my shoes, if you had to choose, which teaching style would you go for? Std 1 class teacher's or Std 2's?

I am relieved that my boy is slowly adapting into his fairly tight schedule.  His one hour daily exercise in the morning has to be cancelled so that he can catch up on his sleep lost the night before.  He has to stay up till 11.30pm to finish his pile of homework on most evenings.  On evenings when he finishes his homework early and can call it a day by 10.30pm, I wake him up the next morning at 8am so that he can get some form of exercise.  It's a never ending amazing race as they have four exams in a year.  When you think you can breathe a sigh of relief after this exam, there's another one due to come in a blink of an eye. 

On a positive note, despite having to endure the homework part,  up to this point of time, I still think we have made a wise choice for sending our boy to a Chinese school.   Hard work and Perseverance Can Lead To Success, so I was told.  I am keeping my fingers crossed.  I hope you guys would not have to endure my multiple ranting post entries here about how regretful I was sending my boy to a Chinese school few months down the road. LOL...