Such is life

Ah! the joy of being a lousy mother.

The most basic thing a parent must provide a child is a good education. And that according to my family and friends means Private school education.

Yaya did go to a private school when we were living in KL.
The reason she was send to the private school was considering the choices sending her to a Chinese school, Govt school or the private school, I felt the private school was a better option. I thought she would get more attention compared to the govt school and less home work compared to the Chinese school. The fees was affordable.

In Canada, kids attended an inner city school. I used to send an extra sandwich with Yaya for one of her classmate who never brought lunch !
Eventually the school started a lunch program ( 100% subsidized)

I always believed that schools don’t influence the career outcome of an individual.
Bernard Shaw once said If it did, I never would have reached where I am now. I attended a very normal school. I studied in malayalam medium. didn’t know a word of English till I was 14.I was classified as a good for nothing idiot by most of my class teachers. My mother had to literally beg the teachers to give me grace marks, so I won’t be held back..and I became a doctor. I did my master’s degree in England. I scored 8.5 for the IELTS ( did you hear the trumpets being blown??)

So happily I send my children to normal schools.
This morning during a routine staff meeting one of the GP’s very casually asked me which school my kids go to. And there was this pin drop silence the moment I said the name of the school.
Everyone stared at me as though I just landed here from Mars.
The first question I was asked was
“why?”
“Why in the world do I send my kids to public school?”
Then I was given the merits of sending children to private school. Basically my children now has far less chance to go to university because their mother didn’t love them enough to send them to a proper school. Apparently even the practice manager sends her children to a private school !!
I thought of telling them that my children will be whatever they want to be in their life, because their mother taught them to believe in themselves.
The truth is that, I am responsible for the choices I made..
Did I screw up?
Time will tell..

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