Petition to Review the Singapore Education System

[janet88]

fifiyeo:

MOE makes it harder for home schooled kids. Don't they? I heard they have to get a higher score to get into sec schools. How is your friend coping with it?

Kids who are home-schooled need to get a higher COP at P6.
It takes a lot of courage to home-school. Your friend is really brave.

[kitty2]

janet_lee88:

fifiyeo:

MOE makes it harder for home schooled kids. Don't they? I heard they have to get a higher score to get into sec schools. How is your friend coping with it?

Kids who are home-schooled need to get a higher COP at P6.
It takes a lot of courage to home-school. Your friend is really brave.

She told me,her DD just need to pass her PSLE as she'll homeschool till the age of 19. :rahrah:

[SAHM_TAN]

kitty2:

janet_lee88:

[quote=\"fifiyeo\"]MOE makes it harder for home schooled kids. Don't they? I heard they have to get a higher score to get into sec schools. How is your friend coping with it?

Kids who are home-schooled need to get a higher COP at P6.
It takes a lot of courage to home-school. Your friend is really brave.

She told me,her DD just need to pass her PSLE as she'll homeschool till the age of 19. :rahrah:[/quote]WOW, this is the first time I heard to homeschool a child till A level / IB stage

[sall]

kitty2:

janet_lee88:

She told me,her DD just need to pass her PSLE as she'll homeschool till the age of 19. :rahrah:

How is her dd going to take Science subjects, she'll need to do lots of practical? There's no way she can buy acids or any chemical to do any experiments at home.

[dovetail]

kitty2:

fifiyeo:

I wonder are Finnish parents as kancheong as us?

Well, it's a system that believes in all. Here it's either you make it or you are outcasted. Entering a decent secondary school might even be a problem!

What is considered a 'decent' school'? Is it really that big a problem if we are not talking about the top 20 % schools? Many neighbourhood schools are decent enough for the average kid.

Yes, how to do Science experiments for home schooled kid's? There's no economy of scale. The parent must have so much time, knowledge and discipline and resources.

The other side of the grass is always greener. Other country system has their own problem. No homework need not be a good thing. The Westerners are sweating that the Asians are so hardworking. Why then are we trying to do it their way. At the end of the day, it's about balancing and moderating one's expectations. It's about loving the child enough to wait for him to mature and be ready for the challenges that his peer would have taken and excelled long before him.

[Chenonceau]

dovetail:

Yes, how to do Science experiments for home schooled kid's? There's no economy of scale. The parent must have so much time, knowledge and discipline and resources.

The way the education system has evolved in the past 7 years, I doubt that we are leveraging on any economies of scale. Parents have to be \"partners\"... attend Science Workshops (conducted by the school) to learn how to answer Science questions. These workshops go far enough to show us how much we need to know... and how much help our kids need from us... but they don't go all the way to teach us HOW TO help our kids.

As it is, parents need to have time, knowledge, discipline and resources anyway or else, our kids learn only 40% to 50% of what they need to cope with exams. I put my DS homework file next to his SA1 test paper. Nowhere in his homework can I find questions of the same level of difficulty as in his SA1 paper. How are children supposed to know what they have not been taught? It is up to parents to homeschool their kids after school (either by tutors or like me, by myself).

Happily, I do have the time, knowledge and discipline and resources. and my DS is doing well enough that I am not worried. But not every child has parents with time, knowledge and discipline and resources. to engage in the after school homsechooling that MOE's teachers all assume will/should take place after school. Again and again teachers advise parents to give their kids tuition (i.e., after school homeschooling).

Of course, no system is perfect... but simply stating that no system is perfect does not mean we stop looking for ways to help the system evolve so that our children and grandchildren can benefit.

[LOLMum]

[quote=\"janet_lee88


He takes up many games like tennis, golf, learns piano etc. Not possible for that to happen here.[/quote]


oh you can do all these in school too if only you have the TALENT and can WIN for the school. :evil: :evil: :evil:

really :siao: that sports/ccas in schools are only for winning medals these days. :mad:

[linden2000]

Chenonceau:

As it is, parents need to have time, knowledge, discipline and resources anyway or else, our kids learn only 40% to 50% of what they need to cope with exams. I put my DS homework file next to his SA1 test paper. Nowhere in his homework can I find questions of the same level of difficulty as in his SA1 paper. How are children supposed to know what they have not been taught? It is up to parents to homeschool their kids after school (either by tutors or like me, by myself).

Agree. It used to be that only a few very tough exam questions are set to spot the above average students. But now it seems to be that there are plenty of such tricky questions and the textbooks and workbooks are not much help to the child in providing answers.

[verykiasu2010]

Chenonceau:

dovetail:

Yes, how to do Science experiments for home schooled kid's? There's no economy of scale. The parent must have so much time, knowledge and discipline and resources.

The way the education system has evolved in the past 7 years, I doubt that we are leveraging on any economies of scale. Parents have to be \"partners\"... attend Science Workshops (conducted by the school) to learn how to answer Science questions. These workshops go far enough to show us how much we need to know... and how much help our kids need from us... but they don't go all the way to teach us HOW TO help our kids.

As it is, parents need to have time, knowledge, discipline and resources anyway or else, our kids learn only 40% to 50% of what they need to cope with exams. I put my DS homework file next to his SA1 test paper. Nowhere in his homework can I find questions of the same level of difficulty as in his SA1 paper. How are children supposed to know what they have not been taught? It is up to parents to homeschool their kids after school (either by tutors or like me, by myself).

Happily, I do have the time, knowledge and discipline and resources. and my DS is doing well enough that I am not worried. But not every child has parents with time, knowledge and discipline and resources. to engage in the after school homsechooling that MOE's teachers all assume will/should take place after school. Again and again teachers advise parents to give their kids tuition (i.e., after school homeschooling).

Of course, no system is perfect... but simply stating that no system is perfect does not mean we stop looking for ways to help the system evolve so that our children and grandchildren can benefit.

mixing up home school with regular school

will be interesting to know which school that is

[Chenonceau]

verykiasu2010:

mixing up home school with regular school

will be interesting to know which school that is

Every school in Singapore? After all, it is the after school homeschooling that funds the lucrative tuition industry because parents who cannot teach, hire tutors to homeschool for them.