Why she is leaving SOTA
While Co Co appreciates our local education system, she feels that it may hold her back from other learning opportunities.
"I think I joined SOTA instead of the other mainstream schools for the same reason why I now feel like I want to leave," she admitted.
While she feels that the local primary school curriculum is good, she felt that the traditional teaching style and lesson plans, which some feel are rigid, was only meaningful to a certain extent.
SOTA was different in the sense that intellectual discussions were regularly incorporated into classes and application of knowledge was done routinely, she said.
Ultimately, SOTA is still a local school and there can only be so many differences.
"[School] is stressful, to put it in short. School hours are extremely long," she said.
Facing constant back-to-back projects and assessments, Co Co realised that she was completing work merely for the sake of it.