Anglo Chinese Family of Schools

[momi]

All the best to you guys!!! update the numbers here later…

[sidekickasia]

sunny_side_up:

It will make history if acsj don't need balloting for 1-2km!

All the best to all of us!

The history of no balloting at 1-2km for JS had been made in 2014. Balloting was for 1 vacancy for >2km.

All the best to everyone!

[floppy]

andrew1:

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i prefer to believe in statistics and ABSOLUTE figures provided by MOE

Good that we have some sort of agreement.

Think you are pretty late to the game but \"the statistics and ABSOLUTE figures provided by MOE\" says enrollment has decreased. Hence, the justification to close down or merge schools.

[AppleCrumble]

floppy:

Elementary, my Dear Watson.

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.

floppy, great analysis and response. I like!! :goodpost: :rahrah:

:udawoman: :salute:

For the record, I like all your previous responses to andrew1 too..

[AppleCrumble]

andrew1:

anyway

i am thinking of setting up TUITION centres to help all the boys in all the NEIGHBOUHOOD schools to ACE their PSLE

ANY OLD boys from all the SAP schools want to join me?

by the way
MOE has a fiduciary duty to all the NEIGHBOURHOOD GOVERNMENT schools
with children from poor marginalised families
not SNOB schools with very very very very rich wealthy children from very very rich wealthy families

Kudos to you for harbouring such noble intentions to help.

May I ask why you are only helping boys in the NEIGHBOURHOOD schools to ACE their PSLE and not the girls? Marginalised families have sons and daughters too..

Actually, you do not need to set up tuition centres. There are already tuition programs under CDAC, SINDA, etc, to help such families. You can become a volunteer tutor to help develop students from disadvantaged background.

[floppy]

andrew1:

behind every man 's success is a W_____________________ ?

Can I have R S T L N E please.
Can I add 3 more consonants and 1 more vowel?

[mrsmok]

accidentally posted twice

[mrsmok]

in case anyone was deciding between ACS and SJIJ, when i called SJIJ at 1.30 she told me that there was 54 SC applicants within 2km.

[zac's mum]

floppy:

andrew1:

behind every man 's success is a W_____________________ ?

Can I have R S T L N E please.
Can I add 3 more consonants and 1 more vowel?

:rotflmao:

[phtthp]

andrew1:

SJIJ is much much much much better school

really ?

In what way, is SJIJ better than ACSP / ACSJ ?