Opinions of the Primary School Registration System

[lchunleo]

limlim:

Less travelling, less congestion, everyone happy including those that has no school going kids and nothing related to education. Including Alumni who travels to go to work, also benefit from less traffic, even if their kids cannot get into the school.


Alumni priority only benefit those minority who are alumni and aim for branded schools and wants to enroll in it. Distance priority potentially benefits EVERYONE in the country that travels in the island, Regardless of whether they take private car or public transport.

hmmm...\"alumni priorty only benefit those minority\", if it is so, the impact or influence to the seat taken should be less, so why the need to remove?

secondly, \"who are alumni and aim for branded schools and wants to enroll in it\"...errr...i believe all parents wish to get their children into branded school right? else we would not be discussing all these issues on enrolling children into these branded school isn't it? and \"wants to enroll in it\", well sometimes alumni members have no choice because all the nearby good schools are all taken up..let me ask a simple maths question, will you put your child in a nearby school (which are fully taken up) which subject you to balloting or in a school that confirm your place?

As for transportation, the assumptions are that
1) all children going to the branded school take private car
2) all the congestion in the road comes from children's private cars
3) school is inaccessible even with public transportation like mrt and bus
4) not much children take school bus (which takes more children in a vehicle than a private car).

[Karl12]

Well said Dora1 and limlim.



My friend has phase 2A priority to a "not bad primary school" and the branded full school as she is the alumni of the secondary division.

The "not bad primary school" is within 2km from her place. But the branded full school is very far. She eventually decided on the branded full school as it is an IP school. The bus journey home was an hour+ and on days with remedial or extra lessons, she has to take the 4pm bus home even though the extra lessons ends at 3pm.
The poor girl reach home at 5pm on such days and her work had detoriated.
She suspect its due to the long travelling and the fact that between 3pm to 4pm, she do not know what her girl is doing. The rest of the night, the girl can’t concentrate and she has to remove all her weekday enrichment. Cannot expect too much since she is only primary 2.

Her advice to me is distance is very important. It can drain out a kid unless you are able to drive her to and fro. Her daughter told her quite a number of her classmates were picked by mummies/chauffeurs. So guess for such students, distance doesnt really matter.

[cure168]

The main reason why we are debating this is that majority of the parents wants to enroll in a popular school. Everybody has their own valid point.

[limlim]

Nebbermind:

The number of kids getting into each school is the same, be it alumni or non.


So the number of people who benefit remains the same. Or my math is D minus? :scratchhead:

If alumni priority remains.. actually you're rite.. vacancy is fixed.

If distance priority, then the number of pple who benefits potentially MUCH bigger.. as it now includes all the road users.. :evil:

[limlim]

ngl2010:

Sorry I am lazy to read all the 190+ pages. Maybe somebody already said this. Maybe every few years we should relocate the popular schools so the children in the school are from more mixed background?

move them to pulau tekong beside the other boys schools.. :evil:

Fully support..

[ngl2010]

limlim:

ngl2010:

Sorry I am lazy to read all the 190+ pages. Maybe somebody already said this. Maybe every few years we should relocate the popular schools so the children in the school are from more mixed background?

move them to pulau tekong beside the other boys schools.. :evil:

Fully support..

Can lar... Relocate the popular schools to ulu part or islands of Singapore and we definitely have parents flocking to buy houses there. Anyway, we need space to accommodate 7 millions people so this way can distribute the population too

[limlim]

lchunleo:

hmmm...\"alumni priorty only benefit those minority\", if it is so, the impact or influence to the seat taken should be less, so why the need to remove?

secondly, \"who are alumni and aim for branded schools and wants to enroll in it\"...errr...i believe all parents wish to get their children into branded school right? else we would not be discussing all these issues on enrolling children into these branded school isn't it? and \"wants to enroll in it\", well sometimes alumni members have no choice because all the nearby good schools are all taken up..let me ask a simple maths question, will you put your child in a nearby school (which are fully taken up) which subject you to balloting or in a school that confirm your place?

As for transportation, the assumptions are that
1) all children going to the branded school take private car
2) all the congestion in the road comes from children's private cars
3) school is inaccessible even with public transportation like mrt and bus
4) not much children take school bus (which takes more children in a vehicle than a private car).

After reading nebber's post, I feel that there is no real net benefit from alumni priority. school vacancy is fixed.

As for the content on your later part of the post, it is irrelevant.

What is relevant is compare the traffic conditions on the road during school term and during school holiday.

Is there any difference? Everyone can judge.

No need to say further.

[ngl2010]

Congested? Put ERP gantry lar…

[lchunleo]

limlim:

lchunleo:

hmmm...\"alumni priorty only benefit those minority\", if it is so, the impact or influence to the seat taken should be less, so why the need to remove?

secondly, \"who are alumni and aim for branded schools and wants to enroll in it\"...errr...i believe all parents wish to get their children into branded school right? else we would not be discussing all these issues on enrolling children into these branded school isn't it? and \"wants to enroll in it\", well sometimes alumni members have no choice because all the nearby good schools are all taken up..let me ask a simple maths question, will you put your child in a nearby school (which are fully taken up) which subject you to balloting or in a school that confirm your place?

As for transportation, the assumptions are that
1) all children going to the branded school take private car
2) all the congestion in the road comes from children's private cars
3) school is inaccessible even with public transportation like mrt and bus
4) not much children take school bus (which takes more children in a vehicle than a private car).

After reading nebber's post, I feel that there is no real net benefit from alumni priority. school vacancy is fixed.

As for the content on your later part of the post, it is irrelevant.

What is relevant is compare the traffic conditions on the road during school term and during school holiday.

Is there any difference? Everyone can judge.

No need to say further.

i respect your opinion you don't have to agree with me..:D

cmon it is friday....be happy :rahrah:

[Karl12]

During my era, most of children walked to school. There were only 2 buses that serve my school then as most of us live in the neighbourhood. I still remember there are classmates coming via rickshaws.

In my class, only 1 came via car as her father is the teacher of our school
For me, my grandpa send me to school using his bicycle.

No traffic jam. :hugs: