My son is in Year 5 at the Zebbug Government School, with which I am very satisfied. In the coming weeks and months he will be sitting for the half-yearly, the Year 5 finals and, next year, the Junior Lyceum exam.
The problem is that my son and his friends are being overloaded by the syllabus of the Church Schools that is not, at present, covered by State schools. Unfortunately the Education Department takes it for granted that my son will also be taking the common entrance exam, and so these extra subjects are being covered, but not for State schools exams.
Why should my son study any extra work over and above what he already has to deal with? As regards the female students, these do not have extra subjects since there are no common entrance exams for them.
So in this case I expect that since my son is going to a State school he should only be taught what the State Syllabus has to offer, and nothing more to accommodate any one else.
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