Any Updates As To When PSLE T-Scores Will Be Scrapped?

[iRabbit]

jetsetter:

Actually we dunno if there'll be balloting. So you talk some more, sekali they really think it's a great idea!

This reporter oredi highlighted such a possibility. I won't be surprised if she has insider news.

http://www.straitstimes.com/politics/a- ... -gains-too

It is more likely to use a computerised balloting system to sort students. It already uses computerised balloting when two or more students with exactly the same grades vie for a place in a secondary school or junior college. It also uses computerised balloting for Primary 1 registration when there are more applicants than places in a school.

[Ikid]

[quote]It is more likely to use a computerised balloting system to sort students.[/quote]
If that child was balloted out of his dream school during P1 registration and again in Sec 1 admission, really :stompfeet:

[Ikid]

But GEP students still get higher chance of getting into IP schools that run school based GE program, so only Geppers benefit in the new system?

[Ikid]

ngl2010:

If each school have haybees and lobsters, wouldn't the lobsters will get all the leadership positions? Then where the haybees learn to be leaders?

Lobsters become school leaders (class monitors, school prefects, student councillors)
Haybees will become leaders of the haybees (subject reps) :rotflmao:

[huaywenandkenneth]

lee_yl:

Song22:

[quote=\"lee_yl\"]Just curious, top schools usually are highly sought after. Don't forget, mixing prawns & har bee together in a big pot also could mean for every har bee they take in, they have to let go 1 lobster or 1 abalone. How many parents can take it when their lobster cannot get into RI/HCI/ACSI/NUSH etc (child's dream school) due to limited seats taken up by har bees and not because their children don't qualify

Maybe it will blur the line next time when the tier 2 schools become tier 1..so 50 years down the road, it gets blurer and blurer and there will be 10 tier 1 schools!

30+ years ago, before the introduction of IP, independent schools and GEP, there were more than 10 tier 1 schools!! At O'level, the top students could be from others like St Pat etc. We are just resetting the clock to undo the damage caused by the move to elitism.[/quote]Good ol' times. Then it was much closer to the \"All schools are good schools\" ideal. :imanangel:

Personally I prefer the transparency of PSLE scores. :evil:

I hate to think my youngest gal is going to be cooked in a seafood dish come 2021 - I still can't tell what sea creature she is or will turn out to be...

[pirate]

iRabbit:

So in the name of diversity, we dumb down our brightest while other countries are grooming their best from young. This is what I fear if the bands get too big and we disallow acad DSA in future.

I didn't know that \"dumbness\" is contagious or that our brightest can be dumbed down just by being around the \"wrong\" sort.

[Ikid]

Another question will be schools like NUSH, SST will still accept majority of the students via DSA only with the new system?

[Song22]

Ikid:

[quote]It is more likely to use a computerised balloting system to sort students.

If that child was balloted out of his dream school during P1 registration and again in Sec 1 admission, really :stompfeet:[/quote]This will tell him that he should not buy toto for the rest of his life

[Ikid]

Song22:

Ikid:

[quote]It is more likely to use a computerised balloting system to sort students.

If that child was balloted out of his dream school during P1 registration and again in Sec 1 admission, really :stompfeet:

This will tell him that he should not buy toto for the rest of his life [/quote] :rotflmao:

[phtthp]

Ikid:

[quote]It is more likely to use a computerised balloting system to sort students.

If that child was balloted out of his dream school during P1 registration and again in Sec 1 admission, really :stompfeet:[/quote]if got balloted by computer to a Secondary school don't like, how ?