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are at the very heart of all teaching and learning

Ling’s humorous take on surviving Singapore schools will have you laughing and give you serious food for thought

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Landed Condition:Very Good Of its kindSun is ready to leave his village in China for America, the place known as Gum Saan, Gold Mountain. His father warns him, though, that passage will not be easy. Because of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, new immigrants like Sun are detained at Angel Island until they are called to take a difficult oral exam before they can "land" leave Angel Island and go ashore. On the boat, Sun had studied maps of his village and memorized facts about his ancestors.