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    • H Offline
      hellokittyspore
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      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. šŸ˜‚

      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:
      May I know which era?

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        Nebbermind
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        hellokittyspore:
        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. šŸ˜‚

        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:

        May I know which era?

        u are threading very dangerously!

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          phtthp
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          hellokittyspore:

          May I know which era?
          In the late 1960s, early 1970s -
          Some middle-income families sent their daughters by trishaw to schools like nanyang primary. Some children walked to school. Some were chauffeur drive (rare). Chauffeur driven kids were rare sight. But if a child was chauffeur driven, somehow the whole school will know which child or family of children is that. Because sometimes is not just one child alone, but their siblings and cousins too also studied in the same school.

          Then during recess time, the \"ma Jie\" will bring home cooked food to school, let the siblings & cousins eat together. When they opened up the lunch box, is a sumptuous meal. Some Of their classmates will exclaim \"wow!\", When they opened up the Delicious packed lunch box. inside Got yummy hot piping fragrant rice, chinese sausage, bacon, ham, etc - better than eating the food inside the tuck shop.

          Then when these p6 girls from nanyang primary graduated & subsequently studied in nanyang girls' high, they tend to meet boys from hwa Ching secondary. Some of these secondary nanyang girls were shy. They wonder how the secondary boys look like. So some of the bolder girls purposely made kueh, made cake, made ondeh ondeh. Then arranged some kind of outing or party or group dating on Saturday (bec sat no school) for their classmates to meet the boys. These pupils quite poetic and strong in Chinese. Some of the naughty secondary boys can compose funny Chinese poem / poetry, in Chinese like:-

          \"Nanyang nu zhong - Zhou ru Yao dong.
          Du Shu bu Yong gong
          Ai ren zai huai zhong \" meaning :-

          \"Girls from nanyang high, walking on a road but swaying here & there,
          Not cincentrating in studies,
          But Thinking of lover in your mind. \"

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          • L Offline
            limlim
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            lchunleo:


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

            cmon it is friday....be happy :rahrah:
            I shd use blue instead.... red is.. giving wrong impression.. šŸ˜‰

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              3Boys
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              rains:

              The truth is, it's the alumni phase that offers the diversity of background.
              Rich ACSians beget more rich ACSians beget more rich ACSians....

              When in some such schools, there are barely 10% of spots in Phase 2C left over for the general public, how can one say that alumni priority which will lock in increasingly large numbers of places as the years go by, be said to promote diversity? Soon even the 2B slots will become limited.

              Over the mid-long term, alumni priority stratifies society.

              It's happening already, the diversity at some 'premier' primary schools is dismal.

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                hquek
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                Ummm I knew one mailroom guy from acs in p school previously le. He may be hiding masses of wealth (dont know him that well), but dont seem apparent.


                Anyway to solely go by distance will be surefire way to stratify. Who got the means to stay in private proprries around bt timah? Answer quite clear.

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                  lchunleo
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                  phtthp:
                  hellokittyspore:


                  May I know which era?

                  In the late 1960s, early 1970s -
                  Some middle-income families sent their daughters by trishaw to schools like nanyang primary. Some children walked to school. Some were chauffeur drive (rare). Chauffeur driven kids were rare sight. But if a child was chauffeur driven, somehow the whole school will know which child or family of children is that. Because sometimes is not just one child alone, but their siblings and cousins too also studied in the same school.

                  Then during recess time, the \"ma Jie\" will bring home cooked food to school, let the siblings & cousins eat together. When they opened up the lunch box, is a sumptuous meal. Some Of their classmates will exclaim \"wow!\", When they opened up the Delicious packed lunch box. inside Got yummy hot piping fragrant rice, chinese sausage, bacon, ham, etc - better than eating the food inside the tuck shop.

                  Then when these p6 girls from nanyang primary graduated & subsequently studied in nanyang girls' high, they tend to meet boys from hwa Ching secondary. Some of these secondary nanyang girls were shy. They wonder how the secondary boys look like. So some of the bolder girls purposely made kueh, made cake, made ondeh ondeh. Then arranged some kind of outing or party or group dating on Saturday (bec sat no school) for their classmates to meet the boys. These pupils quite poetic and strong in Chinese. Some of the naughty secondary boys can compose funny Chinese poem / poetry, in Chinese like:-

                  \"Nanyang nu zhong - Zhou ru Yao dong.
                  Du Shu bu Yong gong
                  Ai ren zai huai zhong \" meaning :-

                  \"Girls from nanyang high, walking on a road but swaying here & there,
                  Not cincentrating in studies,
                  But Thinking of lover in your mind. \"

                  i loved the good old days...more kampung spirit type..got more of the interesting poem/poetry to share or note? hmmm..how come i have this feeling that the author of the poems is you... :evil:

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                    3Boys
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                    hquek:
                    Ummm I knew one mailroom guy from acs in p school previously le. He may be hiding masses of wealth (dont know him that well), but dont seem apparent.


                    Anyway to solely go by distance will be surefire way to stratify. Who got the means to stay in private proprries around bt timah? Answer quite clear.
                    Which can be fixed in one fell swoop by moving the schools to a different location.......and at the very least makes practical sense for distance related priority.

                    Alumni is forever, and tell me again the rationale for alumni priority?

                    Alumni priority to balance out distance priority? 2 wrongs don't make a right.

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                      hellokittyspore
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                      Nebbermind:
                      hellokittyspore:

                      [quote=\"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. šŸ˜‚

                      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:

                      May I know which era?

                      u are threading very dangerously![/quote]oops sorry, it not intended to be offending as I have not come across taking riskshaw to school.

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                        pirate
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                        hellokittyspore:
                        oops sorry, it not intended to be offending as I have not come across taking riskshaw to school.

                        I have not come across a rickshaw. Period.

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