By Marjorie Gorospe
INQUIRER.net

This is an interesting piece from one of our reporters:

When I was still taking entrepreneurship and statistics classes, I yawned a lot. I was never a huge fan of numbers and finance terms.

Now, experts say they can teach these subjects and still put fun in the classroom. GE Money Bank Philippines and Let’s Go Foundation in collaboration with local experts come up with a financial education program called Women Entrepreneurship Program, and part of this program is FUNANCE.
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(Photo courtesy of Aladdin Cordero)

Many of us choose schools for our children based on proximity to our houses. Bad idea.

I wasted more than P10,000 after I enrolled my son in a “Montessori” school on Visayas Ave. But that’s not even my biggest regret. The school had horrible teaching staff, hidden fees and they forced 6-year-olds to do cursive writing and count up to one million –- in summer class before the actual school year. I checked with Education Secretary Jesli Lapuz and he said that was not the prescribed curriculum for this age group because they are not yet pedagogically prepared for such tasks.

After three days, my son became depressed. Can you imagine a depressed 6-year-old child? After the second day, he told me he didn’t understand why he was shaking in school when the Grade One teacher forced him to finish the writing drills. I remember thinking then that I could kick myself for not investigating the school before enrolling him.

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Getting ready for enrollment should have been done at least six months ago.

Not today, not in May, and certainly not a week before school starts.

A couple I interviewed once said enrollment time is their most stressful season of the year. Christmas spending may put them in debt, but the warm, fuzzy feelings ease the pain. What the heck, it’s Christmas! they say. No such thing for enrollment days. It’s just pure financial pain.
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