All About Primary Schools' Balloting History

[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?? :?

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[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.

[marvic]

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.

At the end of Phase 2A, the no of places left was 148. If 50% goes to 2C, the no of places for 2B should be 74, so there could be 1 pair of twins?

My guess is, the total no of kids living within up to 2km were 75, so just nice. The remaining 4 could have been living outside 2km so have to go to phase 2C. Is this logical?

[marvic]

smurf:

I know some school does give seats to kids in 2B under exception case. like some PVs who stay outsde 2km, sch still give, cos the schs recognize PV works.

That could be the case. In this sense then I think the principal is doing the right thing. This shows he recognises the effort of PV. Imagine people became PV and spent good efforts contributing to the school and in the end could not get in by a short distance. This reflects how he will treat his staff and students.