Opinions of the Primary School Registration System

[minnie2004]

fifimummy:

I had a friend who is a PR and is doing PVs for 2 schools... and having no intentions to convert her childrens to citizens? how fair is this for citizens? :x :x :x


another PR paying $$$ for a place? 50k-100k is this happening????

If your \"PR\" friend is doing PV in multiple schools, she deserves her hard-earned prorioty vs those who didn't contribute their time. There's no need to feel upset. Even as a PV, the PR is still subject to 1 less ballot than citizens in 2B. Where does the unfairness come from, whether she chooses to convert her kid to citizen eventually or not?

As for buying a place in school, I've also heard a top school accepts 100k to buy a spot, although personally I don't know of anyone who actually did it (and would they really tell you if they did it? ) Either way, it doesn't make it less guilty if it was a citizen who's doing rather than a \"PR\".

[mummy168]

The primary school registration is getting parents like myself very stressed up. Even if you are accepted as volunteer, a place in the school may also not be guaranteed esp if we live beyond 1 km. While children registered under phase 1 to 2A are guaranteed places in the school.


:? Was wondering why if MOE is so concern that students live near the school, why the home-school proximity criteria doesn't even apply to phase 1 to 2A where their places are guaranteed. Why then is the home-school proximity the paramount criteria for phase 2B and beyond?
Very ironical that a child living beyond 2 km or further get a place in the school under phase 2A and a child living within a km doesn't under phase 2B/C.
And to add salt to the wound, we parents have to sweat 40hrs to be in phase 2B, while under phase 2A, the parents didn't even need to do
any voluntary work. Have tried checking with MOE but yet to receive their answer on this . Did any of you ever check with MOE on this? Can share respond from MOE?

[tankee]

distance only come in play when there are more applicants than vacancies available.


So far, this has only happened in phase 2B onwards.

I do not think any of us would like to see any school running out of places in phase 1 or even 2A.

[janet88]

mummy168:

The primary school registration is getting parents like myself very stressed up. Even if you are accepted as volunteer, a place in the school may also not be guaranteed esp if we live beyond 1 km. While children registered under phase 1 to 2A are guaranteed places in the school.


Very ironical that a child living beyond 2 km or further get a place in the school under phase 2A and a child living within a km doesn't under phase 2B/C.

And to add salt to the wound, we parents have to sweat 40hrs to be in phase 2B, while under phase 2A, the parents didn't even need to do
any voluntary work.

I know the stress of P1 registration is making many parents worried. I've been through that before...although we stay within 1km of the school, we still wrote in to be PV because son is a Dragon kid (2000) and wanted to be more guaranteed of a place in Phase 2B.
Kids enjoy priority under 2A because their parents are former students of the school. Or else either their parent is a staff of the school.

[daddy2007]

mummy168:

And to add salt to the wound, we parents have to sweat 40hrs to be in phase 2B, while under phase 2A, the parents didn't even need to do
any voluntary work.

This is life. Nothing is fair. We just to fight for our survival :celebrate:

[verykiasu2010]

daddy2007:

mummy168:

And to add salt to the wound, we parents have to sweat 40hrs to be in phase 2B, while under phase 2A, the parents didn't even need to do
any voluntary work.

This is life. Nothing is fair. We just to fight for our survival :celebrate:

40 hours or even 80 hours is really nothing compared to having to sweat through 6 years there decades ago on your own. at least there is a now chance to get in ahead of phase 2c. quite fair and is a good leveler....

[dorisp]

Yes I agree with verykiasu2010, with the PV system, we get a chance to go for the school we want. Afterall, in life, we have to work very hard for what we really want badly and sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don't. :imanisland:

[janet88]

Cannot compare between Phase 2A and 2B…bcos most if not all, parents would want to register their children in their former schools (if possible). Every parent would try to get ahead (in terms of phase)…those in 2C would want to be in 2B.

It’s not reasonable to ask the parent to do PV in their former school.

[mummy168]

With school going single session, fewer places will be avail for phase 2B/C.

So even PV will have limited chance if we live beyond 1km. Where the level playing field when phase 2A is not even fighting the race. They are guaranteed places.
Also by giving priority under phase 2A, isn’t the primary school registration framework instrumental in creating an elitist society. Generations of the ‘privileged’ group will continue to be guaranteed places in their school of choice just by the very virtue that their parents have studied in the particular school; creating a snowball effect. And with the phase 2A taking up the places in the school, very limited places will be left for phase 2B/C; creating the ‘in’ group vs ‘out’ group. Yet we pledge democracy and equality as citizens of Singapore?

[janet88]

Yes, there is no level playing field…even MM has mentioned that. There is slightly more fairness at PSLE…but then again you also have affiliated sec school. Someone once told me, nobody said the world was meant to be fair. We all have to fight for our own survival.