Moment of Truth

Hi.. it's been a while.

These past 3 months I have been very busy finding the appropriate school for Fakhri. It was tiring, and just like doing a shopping - you have to do some window shopping, compare one school from another, and apply for the seat-in test.

Seat in test ? Yes... as early as pre-K, children here in Indonesia are required to go through seat-in test (a.k.a adaptation test with the school surroundings), and physicologic test. As young as 3 years, our children has been categorised as "slow learner, average, better than average, or superior".

So after comparing several good islamic school, me and husband enrolled Fakhri to 2 private school. These are normal school, not school for the deaf. In the first school, whilst Fakhri is being test the parents have an interview session with the school principal. Directly we describe Fakhri situation, and ask whether the school can accept it and willing to cooperate with us to educate Fakhri. The first school come back to us with positive comments, however they are not certain if the school foundation will except children with dissabilities like Fakhri. If you can imagine how do we feels about that statement. But then when we see Fakhri can answer all the interviewer questions, we are very glad and confident Fakhri is going to pass the test.

In the second school, the was no interview with the parents, but Fakhri went into 2 kind of test, including one that asking numbers, colours, family tree, and some physical test e.g walking following a straight line. Again, Fakhri proof up to be 'normal' just like any other kids. We were very happy to see he was very confident to enter the class without us, only with the teacher. We were even happier when we see that the interviewer/teachers can converse with Fakhri naturally - we were very worried that only us at home understand Fakhri's. None of our worries have materialised.

And... as I requested in my late night prayers ... God gives his blessings to us. Fakhri was accepted to both favourite school !

One of the test results even mentioned that Fakhri's potential IQ is above average, meaning he is categorised as clever!

Alhamdulillah.... Our hard work at home with the therapist and private teachers, with the nanny, preparing Fakhri for school are paid off. Allahu Akbar.... God are the Greatest !!