School Fees

Having not received any payment notice from Kinderland Preschool(Serangoon), I phoned them up this morning and when I finally got to speak to the administrator, I was greeted by surprise that I'm to pay re-enrolment fee + a deposit of S$535. Due to some parents pulling out of the school without notice, this shall be the new ruling for students joining from 1 Dec, 2009 but Renee's not a new student! Yes, perhaps she had pulled out from the preschool but she was still on the Kinderland system when she went to the childcare centre! I was abit furious 'cos this has also been acknowledged by the preschool principal earlier. In any case, the administrator told me that she'd speak to the principal and get her to get back to me by next week as the latter's on leave this week.

I thought for a while and unwilling to wait so long(wld be busy next wk onwards also), just in case they've changed to being inflexible and remembering that I do have the principal's mobile no. in my list, I called her up(not wanting to be 'rude', I tried calling the administor to tell her so but couldn't get her) so I could get this matter sorted out before the X'mas week. The minute I spoke with her, she recognised and remembered, told me that Renee's case is exceptional and since we've informed her before the dateline, we're to pay as per normal - yeah man, else, it would be soooo unfair for just us having to pay those when Renee's never pulled out of Kinderland's system at all, plus they're fully aware of all these 'changes'.

From next year, there is now an extra fee of S$277.50 to the first term fees of S$1,166 and this is the loyalty fees to IBM(I duno what it stands for) for the WTR programme - apparently, it's a writing or reading programme.... Preschool's education is sooo ex, and we still have to send her to enrichment outside the preschool even, aiyoh, why has it become soooo stressful for the kid(not forgetting the parents's pocket, hahaha) to catch up these days!