Opinions of the Primary School Registration System

[corneyAmber]

3Boys:

The problem is with the increasing flood of applicants at Phase 2A (children of alumni).

I am not sure where you get the info from but statistically in our school, the majority that takes up the vacancies are the siblings group, not the alumni.

I found another statistics for Pei Hwa here reflecting siblings take up most of the seats: http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=4407&start=12930

I would rather give credit to the gahmen for a successful 'procreation' incentive to increase the population so much so that many people are having multiple children.

[JGMum]

verykiasu2010:

sleepy:

[quote=\"smurf\"]Proximity is not only fairer, but it's also better for the child in the long run. Six years is not a short period. If the sch is very far, or even if 10 mins drive (public takes longer), the child is going to burn out very fast, after p3 with added CCA, this is going to be a burden.

I wonder how to implement? within 50m, 50-100m, 100-200m?

Area like bukit timah less densely populated so first 500m probably all get in. Densely populated areas like tampines then every meter matters

high density areas will have to count the vertical distance too

don't laugh ! ground floor units for HDB flats will be more in demand now.....haven't we heard enough people rejected 2nd floor units from HDB ?

certainly 2nd floor unit is nearer to the school than 25th floor[/quote] :rotflmao:

[lostlostmom]

there is NO guideline, though when you enquire, they would advise you that minimum 2 yrs. but in actual practice …

[verykiasu2010]

lostlostmom:

there is NO guideline, though when you enquire, they would advise you that minimum 2 yrs. but in actual practice ...

it depends very much on individual school concerned

[Nebbermind]

verykiasu2010:

lostlostmom:

there is NO guideline, though when you enquire, they would advise you that minimum 2 yrs. but in actual practice ...

it depends very much on individual school concerned

not the school. it's up to the clan to issue the letter, so the school will not know how old is the membership.

[limlim]

Nebbermind:

actually not very ethical for the school to allow PV if their affiliation has a huge pool of members, unless that particular school have not been very popular in the past and had a trend of vacancies after 2C.

if the objective is to get into the school, who would go for PV if the school has history of vacancies after P2C?

[verykiasu2010]

Nebbermind:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"lostlostmom\"]there is NO guideline, though when you enquire, they would advise you that minimum 2 yrs. but in actual practice ...

it depends very much on individual school concerned

not the school. it's up to the clan to issue the letter, so the school will not know how old is the membership.[/quote]huh ? is it SHHK ?

[lostlostmom]

actually the clan and grassroot should review the no. of letter to issue base the available vacancies before issuing the letters. Since school already have the no. of PV the have so will not how many additional they can take from grassroots and clan.

[sourfish]

Basically the whole registration system should be looked into. Assign those staying within 1km of the school a place there. No need to go and register or ballot.

[MumandMe]

verykiasu2010:

Busymom:

Maybe they are genuinely staying there, but rented. Once the lease is up, they could move elsewhere. The same address would be rented out again to parents who want to be within 1km of the school for the purpose of registration.


If you ever look at the breakdown of children registering in phase 1, you will be amazed with the number that is outside 1km.

So what does that imply?

so you and I are asking the same question!

you even see school bus from JB bringing students to NYPS .... of course not the full busload lah

perhaps they should have a formula combining the distance and duration of occupancy to give a score points to prevent abuse of proximity criteria

Totally agree with the above. I believe lots of the applicants rent a place near the school to be within 1km of the school to have a better chance.

That a premium is attached to property prices around popular schools is not unique to Singapore. A check will reveal cities like Tokyo, Seoul, HK, Bangkok etc have similar phenomenon. This is because policy makers, as well as parents, around the world think giving a place to the child who stays within promixity to the school make sense.

However, if I'm not mistaken, in China, a child can only use proximity to apply for advantage if he has stayed at the address for at least 3 (or was it 6 years) years. I think the MOE can look into this area to improve the current situation. These popluar schools are genuinely neighbourhood schools to many children who grow up in this neighbourhood.

Perhaps even within those who are \"staying\" within 1km of the school, a priority should be given to those 1) who have stayed at least 3 years at that address; and 2) whose parents (and not grandparents) own the property.

This should sieve out those who have taken the short-cut approach to have an address that is within 1km of the school.