Parents take note: Un-un-unbelievable changes to Hanyu Pinyin system for kids

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An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

Just attended a briefing in school.

School explained that hanyin pinyin system is different from our generation.

Hanyu Pinyin for schoolbag in chinese used to be shu bao
now, they must spell shU bAo, otherwise 100% marked wrong because of the capital letters

RUN feels that this is quite meaningless, does not make his child any smarter. Quietly in his heart, RUN tells himself just let his child aim for pass. Our education system is un-un-unbelievable. Hanyu Pinyin is romanized Chinese, yet the emphasis on capitalization is totally different from english. We are just confusing young kids and this has nothing to do with making them smarter or more creative.



During the session, some parent shared similar thoughts and claimed that Singapore is just trying to be different. The change does not help the child in the use of chinese dictionaries or keyboard typing and MOE has not tested students on phonetics for many years. The teacher explained that China has been spelling Hanyu Pinyin like this for many years, we are just following the China system.

Immediately, a China mum and dad stood up among the crowd and responsed, "NO, we had never learnt it in school"

I think tuition centre business will be roaring again.


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