Interview

Actually I could not think of the story of Lĭ Guăng very long. In a gloomy Friday afternoon, I took a half-day leave and brought Adler, my younger daughter, to attend the interview of a local kindergarten.

We arrived slightly early, but the place was already flooded with anxious parents and suspicious-looking kids. Thank goodness, unlike the slightly chaotic arrangement in the previous years (I did bring Euterpe here for the same purpose some time ago. See http://ccszeto.blogspot.hk/2008/12/interview.html), we were allowed to go into the playground and line up. A few minutes later, we were led to a small classroom for the interview.

Contrary to the previous arrangement, it was a group interview. There were 8 kids sitting in a row and facing the teacher - a blondie. Behind the kids were their parents (some 12 or 14 of us). The content of the interview was very expected: The kids were asked to raise their hands when their names were called. Then they sang a song together, followed by listening to a story, and so forth and so forth. During that 15 minutes, the teacher just focused on delivering this sample kindergarten lesson.

Two other women stood at the back of the room; they observed the kids' performance and gave the score.

I suspect we may use the same system to conduct bedside tutorial - maybe the final examination as well.