All About Primary Schools' Balloting History

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ChiefKiasu:

No. The school will NOT make any exception to the number of vacancies it offers, during the P1 registration exercise. Even if the vacancies exceed by 1 place, it will still conduct balloting for all those in the affected distance bucket. This is an extremely strict and procedural process.

My ex-colleague's case is an example. The school that he registered his son in had 68 places last year, but there were 69 applicants. All 69 applicants stayed within 1 km. Hence, there was balloting within 1 km last year in that school.

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Melodies:

Am currently under a lot stress and can't go to sleep now.

Hi Melodies!

Don't worry! You are not alone here!

[mummyloves]

Never realised the stress that parents go thru in registering for P1 until it's my turn! Wonder how come in our parents generation there is no such things at all.... what is our education system turning us into?? :?

[ChiefKiasu]

mummyloves:

Never realised the stress that parents go thru in registering for P1 until it's my turn! Wonder how come in our parents generation there is no such things at all.... what is our education system turning us into?? :?

Have. I remembered 37 years ago how my mother's tense hand gripped mine while watching the ballot that would change my life forever :). Our education system has not really changed THAT much in this aspect.

[tankee]

mummyloves:

Never realised the stress that parents go thru in registering for P1 until it's my turn! Wonder how come in our parents generation there is no such things at all.... what is our education system turning us into?? :?

into Kiasu Parents

[3Boys]

mummyloves:

Never realised the stress that parents go thru in registering for P1 until it's my turn! Wonder how come in our parents generation there is no such things at all.... what is our education system turning us into?? :?

You can choose not to be stressed.

[schellen]

mummyloves:

Never realised the stress that parents go thru in registering for P1 until it's my turn! Wonder how come in our parents generation there is no such things at all.... what is our education system turning us into?? :?

I remember my mother telling me that she was very stressed too. And if registration years ago was conducted about the same time as now, then, she had an additional burden; my unborn sister who was due very, very soon. She tried to register me at one of the more established schs (back then, not many choices per neighbourhood, even if you choose a neighbourhood sch), but she was still in the queue when they announced that there were no more vacancies. She didn't want to hunt for another sch so when she heard of another sch in the area (which just moved out of the kampung), she quickly went over to register me there. Of course, when it was my sister's turn, she just registered her in Phase 1.

[jedamum]

schellen:

mummyloves:

what is our education system turning us into?? :?

I remember my mother telling me that she was very stressed too.

I also think that registering for P1 places in the 'olden' days are more stressful. back then, regular not-so-rich parents still need to queue up to register their kids in regular schools (not even top ones) - i'm not sure why there was queuing up, but this was what my mum told me ). my dad didn't manage to register us in the nearest school (which is pretty important cos my mum needs to take care of 4 kids; managing 2 dual session kids and bringing along the rest of the kids to send/fetch the schoolgoing one is no joke) and i heard that they managed to register us in a next nearest neighbourhood school (15-20min by foot) after another round of queuing.

to some, getting into a top school is stressful while to some, just getting into a school is stressful. we should just be glad that the system has removed the stress for the latter situation.

[kuan4477]

why Nan Chiau not in balloting list. as total registration is 79 vs 75 vacancies… is it school give exception?? just curious?anyone know why?

[ChiefKiasu]

kuan4477:

why Nan Chiau not in balloting list. as total registration is 79 vs 75 vacancies.. is it school give exception?? just curious?anyone know why?

That's a good question, got me puzzled too... but I'm sure the answer is NOT because the school arbitrarily \"gave exception\". It is possible that it is due to the presence of twins/triplets/etc in the cohort, but it seems to be an awful lot of multiple births to make up for those numbers.