Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates

[Coolkidsrock2]

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-02/15/c_138787217.htm

[phtthp]

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http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-02/15/c_138787217.htm

Thank you so much !
Is great to hear this. Thank you, Thank you, once again. Truly appreciate this piece of good news. At least, medical answer (solution) is within our grasp now

At least, we are beginning to see a ray of daylight, see hope, at end of the long, dark tunnel (nightmare).
So much had happened, since Chinese New Year Day 1.
Please, tolong, we just want life to go back to normal, ie. The Pre-Wuhan virus days. Please !

Thank you, CoolkidRock2.
At least after reading your link, I have some peace now, because I saw hope
Thank you, so much

[Coolkidsrock2]

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[quote=Serendipity post_id=1963611 time=1581815076 user_id=9658]Doing a random survey here... do you all still let your kids attend enrichment / tuition lessons now with DORSCON Orange?

Yes, we still do so long as kids are well. They stay at home if they are unwell. There is no change in this practice for us.

We are more cautious now but life still goes on.

No,
we have suspended Chinese tuition.
Instead, trained our child to self-study Chinese at home, because

Do NOT undermine the seriousness of this Wuhan virus. In the event the student attend tuition centre got hit, the rest of the household family members also will be monitored closely.

Yes, boring to stay at home, but what to do ?

Besides,

1) do Not know how long this nightmare is going to end, in case it may drag on for months and months, without vaccine medical Science solution yet ready to solve crisis

2) avoid the risk of getting infected, by fellow tuition classmates, in case classmate(s) sick also turn up for tuition lessons, hide behind the face mask, because their parents had already paid up one Term tuition fees in advance, dont want to waste $ already been paid up out front. Eg. $70 paid up per Secondary Chinese tuition, per lesson 2 hours duration

Besides, when students wear a face mask, cannot tell whether student just take precaution to wear mask, or genuine sick just eaten panadol to suppress fever, before coming for Tuition lesson, since so far do not see Tuition centre taking the body temperature of students, who attended lessons. Only schools asked students to take their body temperature, but not tuition centre. Also, students who are virus carrier need not bear any sick fever sympton neither.

3) time to train child towards independent self study, instead of keep relying on tuition, tuition all the time

4) in the event if Singapore were to shift from Orange zone into Red zone one day and
if MOE were to suddenly broadcast shut down all Secondary schools in Sg because enter Red zone, by then, if this were to take place,

at least the child have already got started, been trained how to self independent study on their own, for at least Chinese one subject, instead of keep relying on Chinese tuition Teacher, all the time. eg. Like without Tuition Tr, cannot survive, will die like that, or don't know how to study Chinese on their own.
The child must start from somewhere, how to get started, to study on their own, independently

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By the way,

Parents whose children are preparing for National exam this year 2020, whether sit for Psle or for O level or for A level :

Have you ever considered, or occurred to you that, food for thought,
in the event if Sg one day were to shift into Red zone, and Moe were to shut down All schools,
besides staying at home do self e learning, how are you going to prepare your child, for high stake exam, this year ?

Hopefully, this won't happen[/quote]DS is sitting for national exam year-end and have already considered own BCP arrangement if school shuts.

[MrsKiasu]

Are we seeing lights soon? I kept imagining how happy we will be to celebrate the end of it..going for vacation in Jun holiday..next cny must be doubly happy in the cny celebration etc etc.. I m going mad also like star thinks of herself

[zac's mum]

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DS is sitting for national exam year-end and have already considered own BCP arrangement if school shuts.

What’s BCP?

Btw, if it’s a national-scale emergency and schools have to close for high X number of days, causing the kids to miss out on a significant portion of the exam syllabus, I’m pretty sure MOE can defer/postpone the national exam. There is no crucial reason for PSLE to be held on those specific 5 days only. If need to change, definitely can change. Even have some arrangement with GCE O and A markers since the exam scripts are specific to SG only.

[phtthp]

Very sad to see China healthcare people and patients wear layer and layer of clothing.

It’s very warm, uncomfortable plus urinate on pampers too

[MyPillow]

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Coolkidsrock2\" post_id=\"1963644\" time=\"1581833204\" user_id=\"48901:

What’s BCP?

Btw, if it’s a national-scale emergency and schools have to close for high X number of days, causing the kids to miss out on a significant portion of the exam syllabus, I’m pretty sure MOE can defer/postpone the national exam. There is no crucial reason for PSLE to be held on those specific 5 days only. If need to change, definitely can change. Even have some arrangement with GCE O and A markers since the exam scripts are specific to SG only.

Biz continuity plan/ process
Yep Agree MOE can chg psle dates ( actually start quite eArly, still got allowance to postpone if really need to )
our GCE O n A level are specific to S’pore students, but I heard papers set were abt 2 yrs ago for current year exam, maybe can adjust mark scheme / weightage .(?)

[Coolkidsrock2]

Term for HK universities have been disrupted for many months? Have not seen any reports on how they are dealing with the exams and promtions/graduation.


Since there is no local/foreign precedents to draw reference from, just have to prepare for the exams as per normal.

[MrsKiasu]

I m just thinking all students will be similarly affected if schools were to close…so likely there will be no one with advantage over the others?

[ngl2010]

Then maybe MOE can use this opportunity to reset the exam difficulty level? Make it not so difficult anymore so students and parents will have less stress.