PM Lawrence Wong's NDR - Education Portions

[zac's mum]

@skii Usually can tell from the way the name is spelled in the class list/year book. But accent-wise, they speak Singlish lol.

[doodbug]

@skii I have no idea at all as I am not familiar with GEP kids of today lol I only know single GEP kids here and there, but don’t know an entire class profile etc.

[chenlaoshi]

CCS’s interview with 8 World a couple of days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhzczISXJRo

[skii]

@chenlaoshi

i watched this after the 630pm news.

In the whole interview, CCS only spoke about the 7% will be increased to 10%

nothing about the fate of that 1%

[zac's mum]

@skii the 1% will be lumped together with the next 9% and they all learn together. But it won’t affect your child’s batch (unless u have a younger child).

[jaystormrage]

@zac-s-mum I can totally picture the parents on xiaohongshu wailing in grief. It is a real pity that the GEP system has been gamed to such an extent by these parents that MOE has decided to throw away the baby with the bath water. Websites like these are dime a dozen on PRC forums:

https://bbs.kangaroo.study/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=36

I really do suspect that the proportion of non-local GEP kids have been so heavily skewed in recent years that this drastic step has been taken by MOE.

[chenlaoshi]

@chenlaoshi said in PM Lawrence Wong's NDR - Education Portions:

CCS’s interview with 8 World a couple of days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhzczISXJRo

【海量说】GEP高才教育该reset了！
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nzBOS0Tsm4

[lee_yl]

@chenlaoshi Thank you for sharing.
What makes CCS so sure that by removing the 1% gep and to extend it to 10% HA kids to enjoy the HA program, the GEP prep class conducted by tuition/enrichment centres will go away? In fact, with the selection band widened from 1% to 10% (or higher), the demand for such “GEP-associated” enrichment classes will go up.

Will kiasu parents think that my kid used to have just 1% chance of getting into the prog but now since his chance of enjoying a revamped (HA) program has gone up to 10%, the investment is worthwhile?

Some might say the top 10% HA program is not a must, waste time. But just look at the number of kids attending expensive tuition at TLL, how many parents aren’t aiming for the top 10% IP places?

[lee_yl]

My younger child was from the GEP. It is a pity the program has to go because i witnessed how my DD2 blossomed after she got transferred to the gep centre. Prior to the that, from P1 to P3, she only had one friend. Under-stimulated and always bored in class.

40yrs since the start of the program, for various reasons, this group of cognitive diverse kids felt and will continue to feel miserable in the mainstream schools. Simply because their brains are wired differently. Without the gep program, these kids will still feel miserable Mon-Fri. It was true 40 years ago, and it will still be true tomorrow. Unless there are extensive test to identify them.

Some gifted kids I know off, can’t stop talking, some were asked them to keep story books aside during lesson time but they don’t adhere. Will their form teachers be biased against their ‘bad’ conduct and not picked to join the new HA program? My kid wasn’t even top 3 in her P3 class when she was selected. In fact due to sheer boredom in the class, she often “switched off”.

From what I read on ST, MOE observed that majority of those who got in to gep in recent years, went through some form of hothousing. Some gepper parents told me, compared to 10yrs ago, there seems to be a lot more foreign students being selected into gep. So to me, if the program has changed its nature and no longer meeting the original intention (aka 变质) and GEB probably has no better idea of how to deal with the hothousing, then I agree it is time for the program to go / get revamped.

[bbbay]

A do away with being politically correct view on previous GEP situation

https://youtu.be/6nzBOS0Tsm4?si=PsD4Mh166E_VaFtj