Give citizens priority in Primary 1 registration

[qms]

jedamum:

in any case, there is no course of appeal when MOE does the allocation.

Actually, I am quite curious. If I had registered my child in Phase 2B, and I want to change to another school in Phase 2C, I need to withdraw my child's registration with the first school before I am allowed to register in the second school.

So, if MOE posts my child to a school that I don't want my child to be in after Phase 2CS, can I not withdraw his name from the school, and apply at another school in Phase 3? :?

[titank]

Hi QMS,


So that mean there is a choice for those who had failed in the Phase 2CS. I guess by looking at Central, Bukit Merah & Queenstown, these are the following schools should have places in Phase 3.

Blangah Rise Primary
New Town Primary
Queenstown Primary
Stanford Primary

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titank:

So that mean there is a choice for those who had failed in the Phase 2CS.

Hi Titank!

That's right. Those who were unsuccessful at P2C had to choose 3 schools for MOE to post their children to. Those who didn't choose the 3 schools, MOE would post the children to nearest schools that still had vacancies.

These were done before Phase 3 started. That was why if we were to check the MOE website before Phase 3, the number of vacancies available to the schools were shown as \"Not Available\".

As for parents who had indicated 3 schools, but their children were not posted to one of the three schools, I have no idea how MOE arrived at the allocation of places.

[schellen]

qms:

Actually, I am quite curious. If I had registered my child in Phase 2B, and I want to change to another school in Phase 2C, I need to withdraw my child's registration with the first school before I am allowed to register in the second school.


So, if MOE posts my child to a school that I don't want my child to be in after Phase 2CS, can I not withdraw his name from the school, and apply at another school in Phase 3? :?

You can't. You have to withdraw first. And Phase 3 is first-come-first-served so you can't wait-and-see like for the previous Phases.

[3Boys]

I hope no one is thinking that I am trivialising the concerns of parents with regards to getting a place at a good school and within a close distance. Its important to me so why would it not be important to someone else? The point I am making is that we should not be making the PRs the bogeyman in this exercise. At one level, if the rules are drawn up as such, they fully have the rights to play within them. Next, if one wishes to debate the merits of such a policy, then one needs to consider the whole picture and philosophy of PRs vs citizens rights, and not merely drill in on school admissions. If one, just because of an acute (and because of its immediacy, looms large and threatening) need, then tweaks a micro-policy without considering the macro, then it is a really lousy way of developing policy and strategy. This is what I mean by the big picture. Also, they are by no means the only people (and hardly the majority) who drive the perversion of the system. Think all the people who rent apartments and pay over the odds for houses just to get within range of schools. What about the folk who have been living there for years? Fair?

[cafelatte]

I completedly, wholeheartedly agree with 3boys. You worded it so well! My sentiments exactly!

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Penza:

BTW I wrote ths to ST but it never got posted:


In her letter, Mrs Agawal have hit the gist of why PR students should not be given equal chance for Primary 1 registration. She says that if her children were unable to secure a place in a good public school, why would her family to stay? A Singpore citizen will never be able to say that. We are here to stay and as such deserve the right to choose before a permanent resident.

Think about it, if her husband or herself cant get a job here ,do you think she can or will stay? For these ppl, jobs & money are the main priorities before education. I dont believe that they will go for a lower paying job or less prospective jobs so that their children can have better education in a foreign country. They will go to where there are greener grass & if it packages with good education, why not. And at the same time get to enjoy same priviledge as citizens like us.

For one thing, maybe you singaporeans will be happy to know that this citizen has got a place through balloting but my neighbour(PR) did not :celebrate:.

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KS_me:

one good example would be Jet Li 李连杰.. who knows \"Kung Fu\" and obtained Citizenship easily.


have you wonder which school will his kids ended up at? I bet all will be placed in the Top school..

she is attending american international school. do you really think he wants her daughter to attend local school? come on.

[drking]

mum03:

Its not only the PRC, there is also from India.

they are here to save us, seriously. if no new blood, all are sons/daughters of Mr and Mrs TAN.

[drking]

caroline3sg:

I don't agree with above. Many PRs jump queue by joining 2B. Someone already mentioned, PR wife can do PV while citizen mum has to jugle work, home, kids etc. 2B should omit PRs coz many citizens are from 2C.

because they are talents and their wives do not need to work.