2 moms' views on kids schooling.

Woman A:

She was waiting with her girlgirl at the dancing center for her session to start, which is like another 30 mins or so, while a boy was doing his schoolwork at the same waiting area. So she nonchalantly asked the lil girl to see if she can answer those questions as well, since there was nothing much to do other than idling around. The girl looked over the boy's shoulders and beamed to her mom, nodding her head. Then the two moms exchanged some information and both got to know the girl is in pri 1 while the boy in pri 3. Pri 1's student's mom was proud that her girl can even tackle pri 3's work, maybe thinking in her mind that perhaps she can pushed her girl to jump one year and finished school the sooner the better.

Woman B:

Waited for her younger child to finish her dancing class, and to save time, she insisted that her elder child take his homework to the center to do rather than wasting time away. While the other mom at the same waiting area proudly showing off her daughter's brilliant mind, son's mom told the other mom that her son is indeed rather poor in his studies especially BM. When asked if her son is going for any tuition, she said no and was advised to, else it would be "too late". She might be thinking in her mind "too late for what?"

Meanwhile, some other adults in the waiting area was hovering around the boy's schoolwork by now, perhaps due to the really boring atmosphere, everyone was just waiting. And they were agreeing on how awful tough the syllabus has become nowadays for the kids. Maybe 10 or 20 years down the road, children would be studying calculus in primary schools.

It's a wonder... parents pushing the kids to be ahead of the rest, making the education ministry to keep revising the syllabus to be tougher and harder for them to pass? or parents having no choice but to keep pushing them to learn and study so they won't be left behind in their learning process?