SCHOOL WORK

Shama came to me and said he had to study a certain portion of his Quantitative Reasoning text book for a test the following day.

Okay, bring it let's see. After all, I'd been helping with his home work, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Okay now.

He brought the book, opened a page and said that he was to study both pages.

I told him, "No wahala. Let me look through it, I'll call you."

Nna mehnnnnnn!!!

I stared at the first example: numbers in a rectangle, with more numbers on every side. I look am, look am! E no make sense!

Hmmmm....

I went to the next page: a triangle with the right angle elongated, numbers on every angle and more within... I looked at this one, it also didn't make any sense at all at all!!!

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So I called him, "Shama, this thing doesn't make sense to me oooo. I don't understand it at all. I don't know what we are going to do about this your CA (Continous Assessment) tomorrow," then continued watching TV.

After a while I realised he was still by my side, so I turned to look at him and the look on his face was priceless. He looked scared, confused, horrified, all in one. This kind, "Who do i go to? Where do I turn to?"

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All of a sudden, I was feeling bad!

What to do???

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Yes! Ask Joy and Dennis. Khandhee may not see my message till the next day.

I took a picture of both pages and sent to them. I told them it was urgent, biko, as the boy was beside me.

Joy looked at it at first and went, "Me ayam not understanding anything!"

Ha! What will I do with this boy? After a while she buzzed me, "I think I get the first one: multiply the two numbers in the middle and add up the two numbers at both extreme ends."

Okay... It made sense! So i called him and put him through.

"The second one nko?  Any headway?" I asked her.

'I'll send it to Engineer TY and see if he can help out."

Shama had barely solved two from the first page when the Engineer solved and sent the second page!!

Kwot?!?!?! (An exclamation in my Mum's dialect). Something that I looked and looked at till it was tattooed in my brain but still couldn't make headway, na yim Engineer don solve am na na na?

Iss okay! No wahala.

I called him back and put him through. That's how I ended the evening in peace with Shama.

Whew!!!

But these schools of nowadays seff, their syllabus na wa! So they have chosen to embarrass me and other guardians/adults/parents, ko? No wahala. Ride on. The day I cannot help him, I will send him back to una.

I keep hearing about new subjects like Civic Education, Quantitative Reasoning, and so on... Toh! God help us to help these children oooooo.

What do you do when the child's home work embarrasses you?

How can you make him/her understand that it's not as if your brain is not "hot" but just that we live in a different time. With different subjects. Different curricula...

Be open with them and find a solution...

I guess...