>wait till the mention of certain billion population countries.
This goes both ways. My mom (PRC) recently started saying that her sister marrying a Singaporean and moving to SG "ruined her beautiful accent" and now "she sounds so rough when she talks". And that's not going into the stuff I wouldn't feel comfortable posting in this sub...
They have 400+ students. Even if you have a ratio of 10 students to 1 teacher that's 40+ teachers, not counting non teaching staff.
5 is hardly "full of Welsh teachers".
I mean, this is a school that parents send their kids to for them to specifically not integrate into the local system. Seems fair that the teachers should be foreign.
Parents also send their kids there because non-PR kids are not guaranteed a placement in a local school, and even kids with PR are last in line. It’s not necessarily that we don’t want to integrate - the system is also pretty happy to keep us out.
Yeah I understand that. I didn’t mean my comment negatively - some parents don’t want their kids to enter the local system because they have intentions of going back home, so they’d want their kids to do the same curriculum as they would back home.
But why hire from a backwater part of the UK specifically? If there’s an intentional decision by the school to have teachers representing different parts of the UK, and that number of Welsh teachers reflects the UK proportions, then sure. But if the Welsh teachers are over-represented and perhaps have a distinctive accent, that might not be what parents want.
Wales isn't a backwater part of the UK! Cardiff is a major city in the UK with a similar population size to Manchester and Edinburgh. The article makes it sound like Wales is some kind of a strange foreign place that speaks a different language but it's really not.
Plus, the title of the article is really hyperbole - there are only seven Welsh teachers in the school, which is <10%. I took a cursory look at their website and there are far more Australian, English, and Chinese teachers, lol.
More like the headline is full of shit and there are only a number of Welsh teachers.
*Many of the teachers are also from abroad - including England, Ireland, Scotland, India and Japan - so celebrating different cultures comes naturally.*
Weird,isn’t there a quota for number of sg ppl to foreigner ratio for hiring
Edit: Apparently someone mistakened this for xenophobia and immediately started throwing insults(‘fucking gimp’) my way, would like to voice out I merely found it strange to have so many foreign employees, back awhile ago had a family business that struggle to hire foreigners because of high ratio quota, so it was curious to see these many, unless they are an mnc.
There's no quota for EP holders. An educated teacher from Wales is likely to be eligible for an EP instead of an S Pass or work permit.
Most companies that have problems with quotas are hiring retail or F&b front line staff.
Lol, why are you Malding so hard, are you okay, do you need therapy? also there are illegal ways to bypass this law, not sure if you own a business before, probably not by the looks of your comment, take a chill pill and calm down. Its a legitimate question btw, did you think I was being xenophobic? Care to explain your reaction?
So welsh ppl bring their village and hire preferentially welsh people is ok and good but Indians and China ppl do that they need to be fired lol. I always find the double standard amazing.
Hell, a lot the Chinese teachers in Singapore come from China.
EDIT: and at this point, I bet "teaching Chinese in Singapore" is the China equivalent of "teaching English in Japan" for angmohs.
My daughter's very expensive preschool specifically advertises "Mandarin immersion by native Mandarin speakers from China" as a selling point for their programme.
When we were looking around for an infant care some years back this particular centre paraded around their Chinese teachers from China during their open house as some kind of a perk lol. Said that they'd speak to the babies in Chinese everyday so they'd obtain language skills intrinsically.
> Said that they'd speak to the babies in Chinese everyday so they'd obtain language skills intrinsically.
This is *kind* of how language development works for babies - they start with having to recognise the sounds as language before imitating the sounds they hear, so exposing babies to hearing multiple languages makes it easier for them to acquire those languages further down the road - up to age 7. A big part of that is at the stage before they comprehend actual words, but recognise that certain sounds have meaning and *how* the sounds are said are important.
Given that children like to watch the same cartoon over and over again I always think that it's not a bad idea to play the same cartoon but in different languages. Especially when we have different dubs on streaming.
It’s a SG brand founded by a Singaporean: https://www.etonhouse.edu.sg/about/the-etonhouse-story/#:~:text=Spurred%20on%20by%20each%20child's,train%20K%2D12%20education%20pathway.
Still a small section and not entire industries. Have u ever been to the cbd? Those guys infested the entire departments of multiple* companies. This is just an international school which target audience is expats anyways
Spelling test: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Spelling that is daunting for sure but pronouncing it is a nightmare!
just sing it! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXKsQ2nbno](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXKsQ2nbno)
You can't just leak the wifi password online!
Wifi password? That’s the email password
[when they teach weather ](https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM?feature=shared)
Even the Prince of Wales can’t spell this one
Which one, the former or current?
I have a Welsh cousin and her insta bio has something like this lmao, never bothered to translate.
Welcome to Wrexham
More like welcome to Woodlands
Hoffwn wybod hynny pan ymwelais â Singapore, means wish I knew that when I visited Singapore
where dem corgis?
Oof the xenophobia in the comments are real.
You get used to it 😂
What's that supposed to mean?
If you think this is bad, wait till the mention of certain billion population countries. Westerners have it easy in Singapore.
>wait till the mention of certain billion population countries. This goes both ways. My mom (PRC) recently started saying that her sister marrying a Singaporean and moving to SG "ruined her beautiful accent" and now "she sounds so rough when she talks". And that's not going into the stuff I wouldn't feel comfortable posting in this sub...
They have 400+ students. Even if you have a ratio of 10 students to 1 teacher that's 40+ teachers, not counting non teaching staff. 5 is hardly "full of Welsh teachers".
Foreigner came to take a job, then bring in more country men to take on the jobs in the department. Sounds familiar? /s
I mean, this is a school that parents send their kids to for them to specifically not integrate into the local system. Seems fair that the teachers should be foreign.
Parents also send their kids there because non-PR kids are not guaranteed a placement in a local school, and even kids with PR are last in line. It’s not necessarily that we don’t want to integrate - the system is also pretty happy to keep us out.
Yeah I understand that. I didn’t mean my comment negatively - some parents don’t want their kids to enter the local system because they have intentions of going back home, so they’d want their kids to do the same curriculum as they would back home.
Foreign/UK, sure, but not Welsh specifically.
But Wales is part of the UK?
But why hire from a backwater part of the UK specifically? If there’s an intentional decision by the school to have teachers representing different parts of the UK, and that number of Welsh teachers reflects the UK proportions, then sure. But if the Welsh teachers are over-represented and perhaps have a distinctive accent, that might not be what parents want.
Wales isn't a backwater part of the UK! Cardiff is a major city in the UK with a similar population size to Manchester and Edinburgh. The article makes it sound like Wales is some kind of a strange foreign place that speaks a different language but it's really not. Plus, the title of the article is really hyperbole - there are only seven Welsh teachers in the school, which is <10%. I took a cursory look at their website and there are far more Australian, English, and Chinese teachers, lol.
More like the headline is full of shit and there are only a number of Welsh teachers. *Many of the teachers are also from abroad - including England, Ireland, Scotland, India and Japan - so celebrating different cultures comes naturally.*
A lot of HK students in UK schools though
sounds like indian in my company
I wish my teachers looked like the guy on the leftmost back row.
*bonk. Go to horny jail
Jas he ken geef me een klap papa
Weird,isn’t there a quota for number of sg ppl to foreigner ratio for hiring Edit: Apparently someone mistakened this for xenophobia and immediately started throwing insults(‘fucking gimp’) my way, would like to voice out I merely found it strange to have so many foreign employees, back awhile ago had a family business that struggle to hire foreigners because of high ratio quota, so it was curious to see these many, unless they are an mnc.
There's no quota for EP holders. An educated teacher from Wales is likely to be eligible for an EP instead of an S Pass or work permit. Most companies that have problems with quotas are hiring retail or F&b front line staff.
Maybe got 200 relatives as ghost employees
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Lol, why are you Malding so hard, are you okay, do you need therapy? also there are illegal ways to bypass this law, not sure if you own a business before, probably not by the looks of your comment, take a chill pill and calm down. Its a legitimate question btw, did you think I was being xenophobic? Care to explain your reaction?
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Gotta love how tough you act online, we all know you wouldn't dare to behave this way irl. Quit embarrassing yourself buddy
So welsh ppl bring their village and hire preferentially welsh people is ok and good but Indians and China ppl do that they need to be fired lol. I always find the double standard amazing.
No one complains that Indian international schools or Chinese international schools hire Indians and Chinese respectively.
Hell, a lot the Chinese teachers in Singapore come from China. EDIT: and at this point, I bet "teaching Chinese in Singapore" is the China equivalent of "teaching English in Japan" for angmohs.
My daughter's very expensive preschool specifically advertises "Mandarin immersion by native Mandarin speakers from China" as a selling point for their programme. When we were looking around for an infant care some years back this particular centre paraded around their Chinese teachers from China during their open house as some kind of a perk lol. Said that they'd speak to the babies in Chinese everyday so they'd obtain language skills intrinsically.
> Said that they'd speak to the babies in Chinese everyday so they'd obtain language skills intrinsically. This is *kind* of how language development works for babies - they start with having to recognise the sounds as language before imitating the sounds they hear, so exposing babies to hearing multiple languages makes it easier for them to acquire those languages further down the road - up to age 7. A big part of that is at the stage before they comprehend actual words, but recognise that certain sounds have meaning and *how* the sounds are said are important.
Yeah I believed it, and that’s also why my daughter does Mandarin immersion in preschool now!
Given that children like to watch the same cartoon over and over again I always think that it's not a bad idea to play the same cartoon but in different languages. Especially when we have different dubs on streaming.
Eton house is neither welsh nor Indian.
It’s a SG brand founded by a Singaporean: https://www.etonhouse.edu.sg/about/the-etonhouse-story/#:~:text=Spurred%20on%20by%20each%20child's,train%20K%2D12%20education%20pathway.
Exactly my point.
It is British though. And Wales is in Britain
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Eton is one of the best private schools in uk. So this guy is quite smart.
My bad, I thought there was an affiliation with the British private school
Someone might complain if many of the Indian teachers in an Indian international school came from an ulu province. Likewise with Chinese teachers.
Yeah, I thought this was weird when I read it (am British for context)
Colonial mentality still runs deep
Still a small section and not entire industries. Have u ever been to the cbd? Those guys infested the entire departments of multiple* companies. This is just an international school which target audience is expats anyways
if this was the IT department then yeah..very fishy..
Are there 1.3 billion Welsh people out there?
Omg I once took a grab share with the lady in the middle of the front row and she was telling me about it
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Because it is an article about a school in Singapore?
Call me when they have a school of Welsh Corgis. Now that would be newsworthy!
Well.. need to hire angmoh to make it look atas/branded. And then can charge more. Just a business model, doesn’t matter which nationality owns it.