If your kid is schooling now...

...just some things you might want to know -

• If the school and certain teachers put in hard work and time to organise enrichment activities for your child, please do take our offer sincerely. We are not trying to do any sort of indoctrination or spread any propaganda through this (though the school might be, by promoting activities under the ministry guidelines, I dunno). But really, we teachers only want to see all students participate actively in everything the school has to offer.
  

• If you really are not interested, just write us a letter of excuse. You do not have to write a long/rude/angry/vehement/malicious one, because we are not really interested in the reason. We just need your signature on black and white to cover our back.
  

• The comments about your child that we wrote in the report book doesn't amount to very much. We try to be as precise as possible when describing your child, but most of the time, they are all just as obedient and attentive as any other kid in class. If your kid doesn't fit in or draws special attention from teachers, you will probably have gotten phone calls about them before that.

• We are teachers, and not tools for you to discipline your child if you don't know how to do that yourself. Please do not come to a parent-teacher meeting and say "Can you ask him not to sleep late/talk too much on the phone/be violent to siblings" etc. They are your kids, not ours.