Elite Schools

[verykiasu2010]

Nebbermind:

Vevey:

Guess the exclusivity is appealing to some?

also your own children can rub shoulder with certain celebrity/politician/uber-richman children!!

most of the time the children are blurr blurr don't know who is who

it is the parents - looking for bragging rights

[michyms]

Vevey:

Guess the exclusivity is appealing to some?

yeah, agree that exclusivity is appealing to some... because the harder to reach, then the more some people will want it?

[pinky]

verykiasu2010:

Nebbermind:

[quote=\"Vevey\"]Guess the exclusivity is appealing to some?

also your own children can rub shoulder with certain celebrity/politician/uber-richman children!!

most of the time the children are blurr blurr don't know who is who

it is the parents - looking for bragging rights[/quote]fully agree and this extend all the way to uni I guess
I have been 'bragged at' by parents from elite sec schools for the past 3 years already :slapshead:

[michyms]

verykiasu2010:

Nebbermind:

[quote=\"Vevey\"]Guess the exclusivity is appealing to some?

also your own children can rub shoulder with certain celebrity/politician/uber-richman children!!

most of the time the children are blurr blurr don't know who is who

it is the parents - looking for bragging rights[/quote]besides bragging rights, think parents think that kids who enter elite schools will be \"zapped\" by all the energy and become smart

[jtoh]

michyms:

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besides bragging rights, think parents think that kids who enter elite schools will be \"zapped\" by all the energy and become smart

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: So true. The idea that somehow placing your kid in a GEP school or one that produces a lot of GEP students will make your kid a gifted student.

[tankee]

verykiasu2010:

to me all are neighbourhood schools

:goodpost:

and just that some are more popular than others. there is nothing elite about any of them

[verykiasu2010]

jtoh:

michyms:

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besides bragging rights, think parents think that kids who enter elite schools will be \"zapped\" by all the energy and become smart

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: So true. The idea that somehow placing your kid in a GEP school or one that produces a lot of GEP students will make your kid a gifted student.

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[nani]

tankee:

verykiasu2010:

to me all are neighbourhood schools

:goodpost:

and just that some are more popular than others. there is nothing elite about any of them

Hence I do not understand what is all the fuss and hype about getting into an elite school, can someone enlighten?

[verykiasu2010]

fundamentally all of them are the same, curriculum are approved by MOE, books are approved by SEAB, teachers are approved and trained by MOE / NIE ....all are equal


some are perceived to be more equal due to long illustrious history where prominent people studied there before...(what happened to Telok Kurau English School?) and has strong cultural underpinning, compared with say a newly built / established school with zero history - everything and everyone is new

long history and prominent people connection is a default because in early days, there were not many schools to go to ! and it becomes a cycle these days

those schools set up by clans and churches and missionaries have always focused on academic excellence....but these days, every school has the same access to all necessary information and resources

[jtoh]

If a brand new neighbourhood school were set up, but its Principal and teachers drawn from ‘elite’ schools, do you think it would be very popular? I believe so.


I was thinking of SJI International when it was first started. They brought in the Principal and teachers from UWC and instantly SJII had a strong reputation and enrolment.