Anglo Chinese Family of Schools
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andrew1:
janet88:
[quote=\"andrew1\"]mental pressure to make donations is nothing new. my brother was in ACS barker...constantly bugging parents for donations.
so come 3rd or 4th day, still don't go to school because of avoiding principal and teachers pressuring to donate red packets? cny is 15 days.
ACS is known to be a school for rich men. if unable to cope with the pressure, it's best not to register your sons there.
you are correct
that is why i am trying to help all those mothers and fathers who are NEW CITIZENS and NEW immigrants to make a more informed decision
so that they can better decide which schools are BEST for their children
there were ALWAYS FIGHTINGS in ACS schools
go ask all the thousands and thousands of ACS OLD boys[/quote]Andrew, please refrain from posting derogatory messages in the forum. If you're not happy with the school, stop posting in this thread. Nobody asked you to send your son here. And you don't have to help NEW CITIZENS and NEW IMMIGRANTS as they can help themselves just fine. If not, they would not become NEW CITIZENS just to get a place in our local schools. -
AppleCrumble:
Very very likely. Those >1km better have a backup school in mind.pklala:
ACSp, SC<1 33 kids at 10:20
Do you suppose another 6 SC < 1 km will register by the end of today? My take - quite likely.
For those SC > 1km and PRs, please re-consider your plans if you would like to secure a place at this phase. -
pklala:
Difficult to say anything unless we see ACSj numbers... need to start looking at both schools together... what will happen in the afternoon after 2:30 PM... who knows?
Ya...last year between 2plus to 3plus acsj <1km increase by 10+ applicants.... -
andrew1:
20 years ago, most families have enough children to form a basketball or volleyball team.strange
still so many vacancies for phase 2 C
despite the HUGE decrease in enrolment vacancies compared to 20 years ago
wondering where all the thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of ACS OLD boys disappeared to
Today, many families don't even have enough children to form a badminton or tennis doubles team. -
sunny_side_up:
The net increase was 13 total. There were 7 parents who moved from Pri to Jr to get better balloting odds. I feel last year many parents held on till last day to have a feel on balloting odds.pklala:
Difficult to say anything unless we see ACSj numbers... need to start looking at both schools together... what will happen in the afternoon after 2:30 PM... who knows?
Ya...last year between 2plus to 3plus acsj <1km increase by 10+ applicants....
Hopefully this year most parents would have registered in the first 2 days since the vacancies are more assuring than last year.
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As at 11:30am today, for ACSP, SC within 1km: 34
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Anyone has update on the numbers on ACSJ please? Many thanks!
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I just called ACSJ. They told me the numbers are 41, 2, 9
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Both sides look like filling up fast. All the best to those involved! :xedfingers:
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andrew1:
Elementary, my Dear Watson.
there are still thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of ACS OLD boys
it will be quite a different matter another 20 years or 40 years from today
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AMAZING
NEIGHBOURHOOD schools are seeing a terrific increase in applications
including BRAND NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD schools with NO ALUMNI
DESPITE the birth rate falling
AMAZING
very very very very hard to explain why
This is a 2-part answer to the question(s):
1. Mathematics, and 2. Geography (Demographics)
In no particular order.
Mathematically, a thousand ACS old boys can produce 500 new boys (since they are equally likely to get female / male offsprings). The numbers will improve if they have 2 or more children (G says replacement ratio is 2.1). Demographically, that hasn't been happening in Singapore for a while (we can't really blame only the ACS old boys). If you include infertility (big issue in Singapore), moving aboard or away, preference for other schools (because parents / in-laws / wife / maid also got say you know?), etc the number of possible news boys fall below 500 rapidly. If they are getting around 50% of what they used to get, they are ahead of target.
Notice that the NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD schools are in NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD? Meaning more young parents, more school going age children. That's geography. Furthermore, notice that NONE of these new schools are single gender schools? Unless ACS start accepting girls, they can't make up their numbers.
Lastly, declining enrollment isn't unique to ACS. You have probably not heard of the number of schools that had to merge or close down. If you have been as obsessed with them as you are with ACS, some of them could survive a bit longer. FYI enrollment in other boys' schools seem to mirror ACS trend as well.
Case closed.
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