If p.r. Ok yun school fees if not like work visa medyo expensive.
My daughter goes to daycare.. She is 4 yrs old 92 aud per day and i cant get rebates coz im on a 457 visa. If we dont get p.r. When she starts school apparently i have to pay full tuition for her as an international student. So hopefully i can sort out our pr this year.
I will opt for private school specially one with religion, my aussie/ pinoy brother in law is a teacher here and he says bullying is rampant in public schools. My indian friends who are nurses like me had said the same thing.. Their kids all came from europe na before migrating to oz so english accents na but still bullied. 1 of my indian friend, her son is still in public school but he has learned to fight back kaya lng she has notice him to be swearing na kasi common daw sa school. Pinapagalitan nya pero sabi all my friends are doing it.. Yan sagot palagi. He is only 11 so she is considering moving him kasi yung isang indian when her son was bullied (tinutukso, lunch stolen, etc) she moved him to a catholic school.. Private.
She has notice he is happier in the private school kasi mas smaller ang class ratio and the teacher can monitor them better.
Sa pinas when we were kids di ko na feel na may bullying or manhid lng tayo.. Dont know. Pero dito like yung patiente ko ngayon 13 yrs old.. She cuts herself kasi wala daw syang friends.. Mataba daw sya etc.
Ewan bakit depress yung ibang bata dito when i feel they are so priveleged.
Also we had this conversation sa tea room on our break 3 of us were asians then the rest ozzies, i was telling them about these kids in the bus talking about having sex. Sex education here starts at age 10 at school coz some kids start having sex here by 11!
Nag susmaryasef yun indian friend ko pero sabi ng ozzie na kasama namin when she was 14 her mum started buying her condoms and she was sexually active by 16... Its not a big deal daw. Better be open as parents rather than be strict sabi ng mga ozzie.
Which isnt to unbelievable kasi naka patiente na ako nanay is 14 and tatay is 15. I know values at home pa rin yan but peer pressure here is quite significant. I work with kids and yung teenagers natin sa pinas still playing chinese garter dito talagang a whole new different culture din.
Something to think about for us na may mga anak.. The challenges of raising our kids in a very indpendent culture quite different fom ours.