* Eunoia JC (EJC)
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Sun_2010:
Again, missing out the whole point deliberately, perhaps?
Why?
Hmm a lot of us have kids in IP schools take about 45min to an hour one way to school all six years. In the same crowded mrt , during the same peak hours that somehow just comes to your attention. Honestly , it is hard to feel empathy .
Meet up with school/MOE , ask explanations, work out arrangements, I am fine with that. But acting as if a grave injustice has been meted out to the kids - playing the victim card, oh puleeze ! It has melted the traces of empathy I felt. -
I think I would have been as indignant as the affected parents if it had happened to me.
It’s one thing knowing where the school is and sending my kid to the school knowing from the start that my kid will, for sure, travel for more than an hour for 6 years, and another to have a beautiful picture of what and where the school will be like to get a nasty shock later.
There are quite a few things to get upset about if I were an affected parent:
1) the time frame - the promised time was mid 2018 and now it’s end 2019. I think the diff is very the great lor. Delayed by a bit, people still can understand. Delayed by such a large margin - who has been sleeping?
2) the venue itself - you can’t deny that there are parents who choose schools based on proximity. After all, isn’t this the greatest concern of many parents during P1 registration? If you look at the highest T-scores in various neighbourhood schools, there are students who enter those really neighbourhood schools at 260+. I am quite sure these students just want to go to the nearest possible school and hence the ‘strange’ phenomenon.
Not everyone wants to go to RI or HCI so please don’t shove them down everyone’s throat.
3) the integrity of the promise/vision itself
If I had been one of the parents, I would not know how to trust the authorities with their vision anymore. They are not any Tom, Dick or Harry that you find on the street. They are entrusted with such an important mission, and they could mess it up. What else can I trust them with?
4) enjoyment of the promised facilities
I hope I get this right and you are free to point it out if I am wrong. I read somewhere that IP was introduced when the 2012 batch of students were due to choose their secondary schools. If it had been completed in mid 2018, the students could still enjoy half a year of the new JC? Now that it’s postponed to end of 2019, these pioneer students don’t even get to smell the promised building. I would be quite miffed if I were one of the students.
It doesn’t feel quite the same if you have never set foot in the building. It doesn’t feel like the school’s yours. Hope it’s not too abstract.
All in all, I feel that it’s completely justified for the affected parents to feel very upset by the (lack of) arrangement.
I feel that just becos we are not in the situation, we should not feel entitled to pass snide remarks about being strawberries. Like that it’s kinda durian to me - spiky and smelly. And we shouldn’t be pineapples and papayas either - a pregnant colleague shared with me that these two fruits have enzymes that dissolve foetus (students). Not old wives’ tale hor. Instead, let’s be watermelons - sweet and refreshing. -
Thank you, jetsetter, for the various attachments.
Perhaps the light refreshments for the Q&A session should include strawberries, apples, oranges, water melons, durians, papaya, pineapples & kokonuts too.
I particularly like this assurance that "MOE works with all schools to ensure the best possible educational experience for all our students. Every student’s educational experience is equally important to us and we have a duty to try to look after all students’ interests as much as possible in a reasonably balanced manner".
MOE, I salute you! -
zeemimi:
This Q&A, go or don't go, is not going to change much.
Yeah, whatever transparencies needed are all laid down. -
25HMOM:
The sobering fact is : one man's meat is another's poison. Moe won't be able to please and placate everyone. Some just won't be able to accept circumstances outside of everyone's control, eg soil condition. Unless they want another Nicoll Highway or Hotel New World.Thank you, jetsetter, for the various attachments.
Perhaps the light refreshments for the Q&A session should include strawberries, apples, oranges, water melons, durians, papaya, pineapples & kokonuts too.
I particularly like this assurance that \"MOE works with all schools to ensure the best possible educational experience for all our students. Every student's educational experience is equally important to us and we have a duty to try to look after all students' interests as much as possible in a reasonably balanced manner\".
MOE, I salute you! -
25HMOM:
Excuses for oversight and u buy it so readily?Thank you, jetsetter, for the various attachments.
Perhaps the light refreshments for the Q&A session should include strawberries, apples, oranges, water melons, durians, papaya, pineapples & kokonuts too.
I particularly like this assurance that \"MOE works with all schools to ensure the best possible educational experience for all our students. Every student's educational experience is equally important to us and we have a duty to try to look after all students' interests as much as possible in a reasonably balanced manner\".
MOE, I salute you! -
25HMOM:
Now that MOE had explained the reasons clearly, Look like MOE wont bulge : Mount Sinai is the reality JC set to go, from 2017 onwardszeemimi:
This Q&A, go or don't go, is not going to change much.
Yeah, whatever transparencies needed are all laid down. -
Dreamgear:
Don't some parents always think their children deserve more attention from the govt than 'other peoples' children'?
Excuses for oversight and u buy it so readily?25HMOM:
Thank you, jetsetter, for the various attachments.
Perhaps the light refreshments for the Q&A session should include strawberries, apples, oranges, water melons, durians, papaya, pineapples & kokonuts too.
I particularly like this assurance that \"MOE works with all schools to ensure the best possible educational experience for all our students. Every student's educational experience is equally important to us and we have a duty to try to look after all students' interests as much as possible in a reasonably balanced manner\".
MOE, I salute you!
Throw away your dream gear and replace it with a realistic gear, perhaps? -
even if physical facility new JC not built yet (need to go through soil analysis test first) someone mentioned in this forum earlier to give & take that software wise : MOE will assign the best Senior, experienced HOD teaching staff, for this pioneering batch (2017) kick off, at Mount Sinai
Since the new JC yet to be named : temporarily, just call it the "Mount Sinai JC", until the new JC is born, available to shift into new premises.
for pioneering batch graduating in "A" level 2018, if people ask, "which JC did you graduate from", temporarily just reply, "Well, I graduate from the Mount Sinai JC"
After new JC is born, subsequent batch of students can say, "I graduate from the new Bishan JC"
(old Bishan JC refer to Raffles Institution)
Life has up and down. Pioneers normally tend to encounter some setback in life, make some sacrifice, in order to pave the way for subsequent future batches, to enjoy. For that, you make history, be the hero.
That is why you are called the "pioneer" batch. -
25HMOM:
Excuses for oversight and u buy it so readily?Dreamgear:
[quote=\"25HMOM\"]Thank you, jetsetter, for the various attachments.
Perhaps the light refreshments for the Q&A session should include strawberries, apples, oranges, water melons, durians, papaya, pineapples & kokonuts too.
I particularly like this assurance that \"MOE works with all schools to ensure the best possible educational experience for all our students. Every student's educational experience is equally important to us and we have a duty to try to look after all students' interests as much as possible in a reasonably balanced manner\".
MOE, I salute you!
Don't some parents always think their children deserve more attention from the govt than 'other peoples' children'?
Throw away your dream gear and replace it with a realistic gear, perhaps?[/quote]Lol pity u have to resort to this level....
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