Nanyang Girls' High School [*IP]

[mommyNg]

lego:

Let the NY community handle the issue among themselves.

Agree

[coldleaf]

lego:

We must learn to distinguish between facts and opinions.

Fact is what has happened and what actions the school has taken.
Opinions - everyone is entitled to their own and they are influenced by many factors.

If my child is still with the school, I would be glad that the message sent to my girl through actions taken by the school is clear. (This is an opinion)
As for shuangbaoma’s statement that some NY girls did not tell their parents about it, I don’t see why that is an issue. (This again is my own opinion)

While we can all decide what are the teachable moments (personally, I will add 谣言止于智者, don’t post if u are unclear and that applies to adults too ), I hope parents in the forum do not use this uniform check incident to bash NY girls or the school unnecessarily.
This will increase tension between schools.
Let the NY community handle the issue among themselves.

说得太好了！ :goodpost:

[Estéema]

lego,


You’re good in bringing point to distinguish facts & opinions. You speak rarely but when u do share, it’s words of wisdom. Thank you.

After reading incidents & those who like to fan & stir discord & unhappiness attacking shld be highlighted, just as lee_yl had shared her suspicions.

S’times, I just cringe at these perpectrators of discord who carry-tales of false news & false impressions - so many nowadays in other threads too. We’re wiser now with those regulars who stoke fire against gibt, but these recent ones against NY - SIGH!

No words to describe these ppl. So ‘eng’ to start several new accounts just to play this game. Their lives so empty, to call out for attention in this manner.

Thank you to KSP community who are sharp & will not hesitate to call those bluffs. Stay strong together NYGH parents!

[floppy]

lego:

Let the NY community handle the issue among themselves.

I'm not here to stir shit (but wouldn't mind if I have to :evil: ).

Kinda hard to say \"Let the NY community handle the issue\" when the issue is out in the open / news.
Firstly, everyone is entirely to their opinion, no matter how nonsensical or rubbish that opinion is (IMHO of course).
Secondly, the 'NY community' is a lot bigger than just the pool of current students / parents of current students. The 'NY community' may also include student that ever was or will be - in short, that's quite a lot of people.

[reddiechan]

Haha, if the teacher have had the students line up and opened up the Hongzi shoulder buttons to inspect a la conveyor belt system style, I’d say that is something worth my empty life to dwell into.


Now, there is one student subjected to this. Why is this n number ‘1’? It could have happened to an entire class under that teacher’s inspection, but why that selected ‘1’?

If you’re getting my drift… The rest of the wannabes who witnessed this are so worried and concerned by what they’ve seen and felt it could happen to them, and because it is easy to make it sound sensational, added lots of fictional details that fanned speculation, capitalising on the vagueness of this entire hullabaloo. It could be parents of rule-flouting students who helped fan up these things even (who knows?) because, hey, if I spent a bomb buying that Nike bra to show through the boringly white school uniform, I jolly well want my princess to walk around showing off that catwalk-worthy piece to express her individuality (over the rest of the law-abiding boring creatures), right?

So it’s blown up. Instead of having teachers help parents police and help us teach our daughters to align to defined rules, we are quick to point multitudes of accusing fingers at teachers, because most of us parents have never been teachers, but remembered the time when we had to abide by strict rules enforced by teachers and hating it then, and/or can’t bear the thought of our princesses being reprimanded by someone else.

The rules have always been there. I wanted to buy other colour bras for my daughter but she always says there’s no point because they can only wear beige-coloured ones. Not virgin white, not princess pink, not pastel blue. Just beige. I really wanted to thank the one who set the school rules for doing this, for teaching my kid well. Not forgetting the ones who enforce them, so that students understand that results (academic and otherwise) are not the only important stuff.

[lee_yl]

mommyNg:

lego:

Let the NY community handle the issue among themselves.

Agree

MommyNg,
Since you are the first parent to bring attention to this incident in KSP, which subsequently ignited the debate here, maybe you would like to share how is your DD affected in NYGH? Sec 4?

[lee_yl]

lego:

While we can all decide what are the teachable moments (personally, I will add 谣言止于智者, don’t post if u are unclear and that applies to adults too ), I hope parents in the forum do not use this uniform check incident to bash NY girls or the school unnecessarily.
This will increase tension between schools.
Let the NY community handle the issue among themselves.

赞 :goodpost:

[mommyNg]

lee_yl:

MommyNg,
Since you are the first parent to bring attention to this incident in KSP, which subsequently ignited the debate here, maybe you would like to share how is your DD affected in NYGH? Sec 4?

Wow lee_yl, haha, you are giving me more credit than I deserve - “subsequently ignited the debate” Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Please note that this is a public forum. I maybe the “first” parent to bring this up in KSP, but it doesn’t mean nobody else won’t subsequently.

[Mamalemon]

It is one thing to complain on forum. But to go to the press… as a parent, I really don’t understand why anyone would want to do this to their daughter. I mean, we spend all this effort to send them to a good school, tarnishing the reputation of the school doesn’t do us any good right?

[UBKmom]

Most people seem to be ok with the school rule of wearing only a certain colour of bra (including inspecting) and never questioned whether its relevant or appropriate at this age of time. I can accept and understand the requirement of uniformity for hair, skirt length even to the type of shoe or socks (colours included) because it affect the appearance of the student but undergarment? I found it dated and intrusive, I mean come on, unbuttoning and checking the bra inside, if this is not intrusive then I am not what is. I wonder which school in Singapore does that or has such rule. Undergarments are very personal items and its not the business of the school to interfere not even in a conservative Muslim society. To me, as long as the bra is totally covered by the blouse, its consider decent already. If the colour of the bra can be seen through the blouse then may be the problem is with the material of the blouse here. To that I also want to know, is there a requirement for certain colour of shorts/panties as the skirt have the same material as the blouse, I think its absurd. Strict rules is one thing and following the rules blindly is another.