2010 P1 Registration Exercise for 2011 In-Take

[janet88]

It’s hard enough to clock up 40 hours if both parents are both working, let alone 80 hours.


I hope schools who want parents to clock up 80 hours have sufficient ‘jobs’ for PVs, do not take in too many PVs fighting for jobs, yet in the end can’t clock up time to register under Phase 2B…that would be very heart-breaking if this happens.

[meeyah]

janet_lee88:

It's hard enough to clock up 40 hours if both parents are both working, let alone 80 hours.


I hope schools who want parents to clock up 80 hours have sufficient 'jobs' for PVs, do not take in too many PVs fighting for jobs, yet in the end can't clock up time to register under Phase 2B...that would be very heart-breaking if this happens.

Hmmmm...seems like Gahmen wants everything...Promote both parents to work to contribute to the economy. Promote to have more kids but so difficult to get into our ideal schools. AS more n more parents are better educated naturally, our standards and expectation will increase. Hence the hopes of getting our kids to 'better' school will naturally increase as compare to our parents generation.....no such thing about PV or phase 2B..What more in phase 2B, PV has to compete with church members, grassroot members, clan members...Fierce competitions... Really hope gahmen will step in and improve the situation. Also, this PV thing seems to favour more to parents who are SAHM. Hahahaa..really so hard to be parent in Singapore.

[janet88]

meeyah:

Hmmmm...seems like Gahmen wants everything...Promote both parents to work to contribute to the economy. Promote to have more kids but so difficult to get into our ideal schools. AS more n more parents are better educated naturally, our standards and expectation will increase. Hence the hopes of getting our kids to 'better' school will naturally increase as compare to our parents generation.....no such thing about PV or phase 2B..What more in phase 2B, PV has to compete with church members, grassroot members, clan members...Fierce competitions... Really hope gahmen will step in and improve the situation. Also, this PV thing seems to favour more to parents who are SAHM. Hahahaa..really so hard to be parent in Singapore.

Agree, agree...but I don't agree to the part about govt wants women to be SAHM. Otherwise why they hold exhibition to get women to re-join workforce again.
During OUR time, no such thing about PV right ? Now do PV also have to compete with church/clan/grassroot members. Quite unfair.
Surviving on sole breadwinner is tough, but when both parents work, the poor children has to go student care or else employ maid who drives employers crazy with their antics.

[3Boys]

vicki:

Yah - the prob is that they gave the \"latest\" date to complete - they dont tell you the \"earliest\" date to start or the \"in between\" dates that you should perform the PV duty.


So - effectively - the interpretation is left to the school? Funny! I tot they would have a more standardised procedure. :roll:

vicki,
I understand you trying to split the difference in the wordings and text. The schools have some autonomy in setting start and stop dates for PV, or for that matter, number of hours, share between parents etc., but fundamentally, 1 PV qualification is for 1 child. That is why in the PV forms I have filled, it states very clearly the name of the child that the PV counts towards, and the year of admission. It could not be fair to other parents to do it any other way.

[vicki]

3Boys:

vicki,

I understand you trying to split the difference in the wordings and text. The schools have some autonomy in setting start and stop dates for PV, or for that matter, number of hours, share between parents etc., but fundamentally, 1 PV qualification is for 1 child. That is why in the PV forms I have filled, it states very clearly the name of the child that the PV counts towards, and the year of admission. It could not be fair to other parents to do it any other way.

Oh! I didnt know you have to fill in the name of the child - cos asking for a fren.

Okies - understand from this angle then.

[tankee]

vicki:

Yah - the prob is that they gave the \"latest\" date to complete - they dont tell you the \"earliest\" date to start or the \"in between\" dates that you should perform the PV duty.


So - effectively - the interpretation is left to the school? Funny! I tot they would have a more standardised procedure. :roll:

there isn't a standardised procedure. That's why some schools can go beyond 40 hrs, and different schools have different start date of accepting PV and how PV are selected.

[3Boys]

meeyah:

Hmmmm...seems like Gahmen wants everything...Promote both parents to work to contribute to the economy. Promote to have more kids but so difficult to get into our ideal schools. AS more n more parents are better educated naturally, our standards and expectation will increase. Hence the hopes of getting our kids to 'better' school will naturally increase as compare to our parents generation.....no such thing about PV or phase 2B..What more in phase 2B, PV has to compete with church members, grassroot members, clan members...Fierce competitions... Really hope gahmen will step in and improve the situation. Also, this PV thing seems to favour more to parents who are SAHM. Hahahaa..really so hard to be parent in Singapore.

Can't really see what this has to do with the gahmen.

Role of gahmen is to provide schools across the island to allow accessibility to large majority of population, and make sure that all attain a reasonable standard of instruction. Given that there are dozens of P-schools, with differing cultures and localities, it is inevitable that there will be differences in standards, and that is not something that the gahmen can or should fix.

Everything else, whether you choose to partake in PV, move house, is entirely optional and self imposed.

Its actually quite easy to be a parent in Singapore. Try being a parent in Ethiopia....

[truffles]

I fall under phase 2C but am thinking of registering my son in St Gab’s although i live in woodlands as i want a boys sch. According to past data St gab’s does not go thru balloting for Phase 2C but still nervous abt this yr. Wat if…?

Should I risk it or just place him in a sch in woodlands, Woodgrove, is another one we are looking at or in Montfort Junior?
Thanks in advance…

[bigfoot]

truffles:

I fall under phase 2C but am thinking of registering my son in St Gab's although i live in woodlands as i want a boys sch. According to past data St gab's does not go thru balloting for Phase 2C but still nervous abt this yr. Wat if....?

Should I risk it or just place him in a sch in woodlands, Woodgrove, is another one we are looking at or in Montfort Junior?
Thanks in advance....

Are u a catholic? Both St Gab and Monfort is pretty far from Woodlands. I cannot imagine the number of hours spend travelling everyday. Multiply that by 5 per weeks and 10 per terms and 4 per year. I think there are good school in Woodlands or maybe even Yishun or BP, which are much nearer to woodlands.

[tankee]

@bigfoot


truffles is looking for a all boys school. do you know of any boys school in or around woodland?