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Does anyone stay extreme east and how does your child manage the travel between school and home daily and manage the school activities, homework etc? Wondering how do kids who stay far from school manage the long travel time? Is it taxing for them?
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Hi ! Is there anyone traveling from the East to NUS High. My son will start Y1 from Jan’24. Looking for carpool
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Yes, its very stress and limited time when travel too far. Many of my friends and relatives always ranted that Secondary School that need up to 1 hour travel time are stressful because if the school starts 7.30am, the student need to wake up at 6am without breakfast. A lot of time school ends at 4.30 to 6pm so they only be back home at 6 to 7.30pm. After dinner and shower, they will start homework at 7.30 to 9pm that mostly ends at 10.30pm to 12am. So they Secondary School students usually sleep at 11.30 to 12am while different curriculum top schools student frequently sleep at 1am due to homeworks and projects.
Does anyone stay extreme east and how does your child manage the travel between school and home daily and manage the school activities, homework etc? Wondering how do kids who stay far from school manage the long travel time? Is it taxing for them?
If the travel time is up to 1.5 hours, then the student need to wake at 5.30am without breakfast. All of these are based on short waiting time of public transport and short walking distance from bus stop or MRT to school and home. If a student has no meal, then they cannot concentrate and will have health problems too. If taking MRT and bus, you cannot sleep or else you will miss the stop. In raning season, the travel time will be longer with clothes and shoes are wet.
If you plan to take the school bus, its even earlier! The bus must reach at least half hour earlier to school and due to pick up points stops, they need more travel time. Usually another extra hour more than public transport and if you miss the bus, you need to take public transport so you must wait 15 to 30 minutes earlier for the school bus. If you take public transport with 1 hour travel time, then school bus need at least 2.3 hours. Getting wet is rarely but school bus will always need longer travel time when especially in rainy days. You can sleep in the bus but its quite stressful when the bus is moving.
If travel by car, there will traffic jams at that hour and especially near schools are too jammed. This exclude problematic rainy seasons.
After reach home, there will be lots of homework because Secondary School and Primary School are so much different. CCA will tire them out too and most feel too sleepy when reach home. Usually most schools CCA is at least twice a week, some CCA up to 5 days a week. When test or exam coming, its more tiring and stress level goes up triple. For Nush, depends on how involve the student and what kind of activities. When approaching to Sports Day or competitions, students will have to stay back and it will be very tiring months. Top school always tends to want their students to top in competitions too and get maximum trophies for the school so grinding the students are normality.
You have to judge if your child is very hyper discipline if one way travel time is up to 1.5 hours. I dont advise one way travel time is more than 1.5 hours because the student usually cannot cope when to and fro travel time is 3 hours daily. Many of the drop outs are due to travel time. All the top schools students tends to doze off during lessons without realizing it. The teachers sometimes will wake them but later ignored when they dozed off again. The teachers know their students are tired but this is the way of life in top schools. Time is essence in secondary school days especially top schools. Every year, many even GEP students from Primary Schools to IP schools ended up drop outs and went to other JC nearer to home. So its not necessary all top students will make it but rather on the student with extreme self discipline and less travel time to avoid over tiring. Another nightmare is after being pushed to another JC, the lives are like being sacked from a company and you start afresh being known as kick-out student. Sadly, every new student will be questioned by their peers.
You must imagine if you travel 1.5 hours to work by public transport and back another 1.5 hours, can you cope? Studying in top schools have triple stress than working. Furthermore the students must attend PE classes, sports, CCA, but working environment dont need real physical strength, unless you are a contruction labourer. -
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My children woke up 515am, took breakfast and leave home by 615am to make the one hour journey to Sec. School by MRT. It was a 10min walk from MRT station to school without shelter. It rained only some of the time and they did fine. I think their mum mitigated the inconvenience, by having them keep extra pair of socks in their bag, for raining days.
Yes, its very stress and limited time when travel too far. Many of my friends and relatives always ranted that Secondary School that need up to 1 hour travel time are stressful because if the school starts 7.30am, the student need to wake up at 6am without breakfast. A lot of time school ends at 4.30 to 6pm so they only be back home at 6 to 7.30pm. After dinner and shower, they will start homework at 7.30 to 9pm that mostly ends at 10.30pm to 12am. So they Secondary School students usually sleep at 11.30 to 12am while different curriculum top schools student frequently sleep at 1am due to homeworks and projects.
If the travel time is up to 1.5 hours, then the student need to wake at 5.30am without breakfast. All of these are based on short waiting time of public transport and short walking distance from bus stop or MRT to school and home. If a student has no meal, then they cannot concentrate and will have health problems too. If taking MRT and bus, you cannot sleep or else you will miss the stop. In raning season, the travel time will be longer with clothes and shoes are wet.
If you plan to take the school bus, its even earlier! The bus must reach at least half hour earlier to school and due to pick up points stops, they need more travel time. Usually another extra hour more than public transport and if you miss the bus, you need to take public transport so you must wait 15 to 30 minutes earlier for the school bus. If you take public transport with 1 hour travel time, then school bus need at least 2.3 hours. Getting wet is rarely but school bus will always need longer travel time when especially in rainy days. You can sleep in the bus but its quite stressful when the bus is moving.
If travel by car, there will traffic jams at that hour and especially near schools are too jammed. This exclude problematic rainy seasons.
After reach home, there will be lots of homework because Secondary School and Primary School are so much different. CCA will tire them out too and most feel too sleepy when reach home. Usually most schools CCA is at least twice a week, some CCA up to 5 days a week. When test or exam coming, its more tiring and stress level goes up triple. For Nush, depends on how involve the student and what kind of activities. When approaching to Sports Day or competitions, students will have to stay back and it will be very tiring months. Top school always tends to want their students to top in competitions too and get maximum trophies for the school so grinding the students are normality.
You have to judge if your child is very hyper discipline if one way travel time is up to 1.5 hours. I dont advise one way travel time is more than 1.5 hours because the student usually cannot cope when to and fro travel time is 3 hours daily. Many of the drop outs are due to travel time. All the top schools students tends to doze off during lessons without realizing it. The teachers sometimes will wake them but later ignored when they dozed off again. The teachers know their students are tired but this is the way of life in top schools. Time is essence in secondary school days especially top schools. Every year, many even GEP students from Primary Schools to IP schools ended up drop outs and went to other JC nearer to home. So its not necessary all top students will make it but rather on the student with extreme self discipline and less travel time to avoid over tiring. Another nightmare is after being pushed to another JC, the lives are like being sacked from a company and you start afresh being known as kick-out student. Sadly, every new student will be questioned by their peers.
You must imagine if you travel 1.5 hours to work by public transport and back another 1.5 hours, can you cope? Studying in top schools have triple stress than working. Furthermore the students must attend PE classes, sports, CCA, but working environment dont need real physical strength, unless you are a contruction labourer.
My children reached home around 8pm on some days. They usually did their home work on non cca days when they reached home earlier. They turned in by 11pm daily. And my children looked fresher than me always.
My son told me it boiled down to discipline of not spending too much time on social media/mobile games and focus on homework when needed. He told me many of his classmate couldn’t finish homework because they have been switching between their phone and homework- not focus.
CCA will stand down when near exam. Time occupied by cca previously will be freed up for exam studying.
During open house a parent asked the principal whether can the students really cope, citing many of the reason you mentioned above. The principal replied many generations of students have gone through the same situation and all turn up fine. I agree with you , it mostly come down to discipline. -
Here is a poignant post by one of the senior teachers.. this sums up what their thoughts on what it takes to succeed in this school.
\"You teach in a special school for maths and science? Don't the geniuses have a big advantage then?\"
\"No, ma'am. Genius gets you there one way. Talent and discipline get you there another way. Pure discipline and curiosity will bring you there too. The only difference is speed, and as long as we don't test for that, it doesn't matter.
\"Sooner or later all genius and all talent run out, and from that point on the one with the best discipline wins.\"
Conversation with someone trying to sell me something yesterday. Two times is not a pattern but I seem to end up selling back at salesmen.
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