Fees Increment, Again?

As if the additional fees for the loyalty of the WTR programme(for many of us parents, such fees should already be part of the fees that we're paying-now worse, I'm not convinced of this prog...) we paid beginning this year wasn't enough, our dear girl came home today with a fee revision notice from the school.

From the current(increased not too long ago) fee of S$1,166/term, it's gonna be S$1,290 from term 4 onwards(S$1,190.80 for the 3rd term). When conversing with Janice on this, I told her that the other mommies(am session kids) are also not happy about it and some even commented that the school should at least increase the duration of lessons from 3hours to 4hours(esp. for K2) with the increment since even the PCF Kindergartens, with a much much lower fee are already conducting 4hours sessions - this I totally agree and had actually brought up to the school when we 1st started with them at pre-n level.

To be fair, I personally do note some changes the school has made to the holiday programmes(the contents/layout do seem more interesting as compared to those held in the past) but then again, can we really see significant achievement from these short term programmes? Besides, we actually still have to pay separate fees for these programmes which aren't cheap as well.

For sure no one is happy with the fee increment, especially when most are already sending their children for enrichment classes eslewhere to better prepare them for Primary 1 schooling. Myself? I'm still searching for 'satisfactory' ones, these enrichments don't come cheap and I don't want her to just go there to spend some time...

Geez, it's really tough to raise children up these days(and I only have 1!). Not only are our direct involvement is required by the schools(and now even at preschool levels!) but the energy we have to assert onto the school and tuition/enrichment centres search is tiring... First you check/ask around, next you'll have to go do some read-up on the 'recommended' schools/centres before giving them a personal visit. And when you aren't satisfied at the end of it, the whole research repeats, oh man! All these hassles for just a preschool and/or enrichment centres... and when these are settled, you'll soon be worrying about the selection of primary school when neither yourself nor your spouse's a alumni to the preferred school(s)! Arrrggghhh...