2012 P1 Registration Exercise for 2013 In-Take

[laughingcat]

phtthp,


Don’t say that leh. Nowadays, literacy skill in children are not so surprising compared to my time. If you look around, most K1 kids are already reading very well. My DS1 is not surprising at all.

Getting into GEP is not important to me. To me character building is more important. Don’t want my boy to end up like Brandon Wey, the ex-PSC scholar. What sort of character is that.

[Cars2]

LOLMum, i can imagine what MOE would say if we send them a letter after all these years! MOE would say - look, this is another real life testimony that all schools are the same! It doesn't matter which school the child is registered in!


Phtthp, my mom is indeed an amazing woman, she didn't have much education herself,couldn't read any English (being Chinese educated) and my dad didn't earn much (with my mom being a SAHM). But that didn't stop her from scrimping and saving, and gave her all and her best to her two children. Anyway, now that her precious grandchild is going through the P1 registration process next year, she is starting to get worried all over again. Deja vu...

Having said that, all mothers are amazing people. Whether their kids turn out smart, successful or of good character does not make them any more or less amazing and self-sacrificing.

[laughingcat]

Cars2:

Having said that, all mothers are amazing people. Whether their kids turn out smart, successful or of good character does not make them any more or less amazing and self-sacrificing.

:goodpost: Well SAID!

[blurrish]

After reading all ksp’s views on schools. I can only say that while we know that all schools are the same, as a parent, we just want to ensure that we do whatever we can to send our kids to a good school. This is so that when the kids grown up, and for some reasons they did not make it big, they cannot blame us for not trying but only themselves for not working hard enough.

[1amber]

laughingcat:

phtthp,


Getting into GEP is not important to me. To me character building is more important. Don't want my boy to end up like Brandon Wey, the ex-PSC scholar. What sort of character is that.

Agree! :rahrah: :rahrah: :rahrah:

[Cars2]

blurrish:

After reading all ksp's views on schools. I can only say that while we know that all schools are the same, as a parent, we just want to ensure that we do whatever we can to send our kids to a good school. This is so that when the kids grown up, and for some reasons they did not make it big, they cannot blame us for not trying but only themselves for not working hard enough.

Haha agree!!!

Six years ago, when I wasn't even pregnant (and therefore could not understand the sentiments of being a mother), I was having lunch one day with an ex-colleague when she shared that she took on a $800k loan (a princely sum in 2005) to buy a property near SCGS, so that her child can get in. I recalled that she was telling me that her family finances were really tight and she took on tuition assignments on weekends to make ends meet. I was incredulous, and said she must be nuts to do this. She said the same - her child is not particularly bright, she needed to find a school that has secondary school affiliation, and she wants to do her best for her child. Never mind if she failed, but at least she had tried.

I couldn't understand then. But now I could.

Laughingcat,

Your child is very bright!!! Kudos to you!

[mummy of 3]

Cars2:

she wants to do her best for her child. Never mind if she failed, but at least she had tried.


I couldn't understand then. But now I could.

:goodpost: I totally agree

[1amber]

Before I became a mummy I couldn’t understand the trials and angst of mummies in singapore. I used to find it ridiculous that people would buy properties just to be near popular school. Now I understand. You will never know until you go through it yourself. I would do my best for my kid too. The rest is up to her.

[phtthp]

hi Cars2,


your son is due for enrolment P1 2013 ? you stay in Jurong ?

which school you eyeing ? Rulang ?

[jtoh]

Cars2:

laughingcat:

I have been reading the MOE guidelines very seriously. Should there be vacancy exceeded for phase 2A, balloting will occur. Has anybody read before that balloting occur for phase 2A in the yesteryear?]

Yes. For admission year 1990, NYPS could not absorb all its alumni. All phase 2A outside 2km and less than 3 kids were rejected WITHOUT even a chance to ballot. There were not even enough vacancies to go around. The cutoff was at Phase 2A AND the parents have 3kids.

That was under the watch of Mdm Ho Chin Geok's time. Lots of unhappy parents then. Hopefully, history will not repeat itself.

You mean in 1990 NYPS' total vacancy was filled up by Phase 2A, so there was no Phase 2B and 2C? It sounds incredulous. Because assuming NYPS has 300 vacancies (figure is just for illustration purposes), for all 300 to be filled up by Phase 2A, ie by existing siblings and ex-students?