Opinions of the Primary School Registration System
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zoolet:
There has been a lot of debates over the fairness of the P1 registeration process. Parents have been complaining why there is such phase for old boys and old girls. It would be great if we drop all the phases of registeration and adopt entrance exams process, just like the Japanese education system. Earlier, ex-MM Lee had acknowledged that admission to primary school was based on parents’ social class, not merit. It should be done by merit. The entrance exams should also test the parents/ guidances to be tested. I think this is important. It shows the ability the parents can coach their children. Sometimes, some of you may think are unfair, some schools do prefer to get their old boys or girls' young generation over the new ones. Because the parents may have brought up their youngs in the similar environment as they were before. Just look at the affliated secondary schools.
Oh my! Why this vengence against the little ones?
Just joking, I see your point but in this day when there are training centres for giftedness ( the irony!) and enrichment/tutions is the norm for lower primary - now we will have that for nursery kids ?
again who will make thru this exam? - the ones with parents who have deep pockets, the ones with parents who can coach the kids and yes a few really bright kids who can manage without the above.
Who loses ? All the kids except for the few really bright kids who did not under go training. Even the kids who make it will have their creativity and imagination blunted thru the stress from preschools, kiasu parents at home. On the whole, will do more damage than good.
Frankly its a dangerous path to tread.
Yes the rules for primary schools need to be changed - but for the better not for worse -
there is no perfect system to cater to everyone’s vested interest
what is ideal for one family is bad for another
one man’s meat is another’s poison
the existing system is not perfect but by and large has taken into account the vested interest of the various stake holders
by distance, by siblings, by alumni connection (past and present), by volunteers’ contribution, by community service , by nationality, by staff, etc etc -
There is no perfect solution. It will be either parents showing off their wealth or showing off their children’s ability. With our country becoming developed, the gap between the rich and poor is getting wider. It may come to a point that some of the good primary schools may be privatised and they will choose who they want to admit to the school. This is unavoidable. Just take a look at the secondary schools.
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True, but I don’t think the govt will allow privatisation of primary schools. Will be too elitist a pill for nation to swallow. As of now, system is not perfect, but I am happy to live with it as is.
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seeing PRs getting into the schools that you want your child to get in, it sure doesn’t feel good. especially, when you are so close to the school. when your child has every right to get in because he or she is a citizen!
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smurf:
seeing PRs getting into the schools that you want your child to get in, it sure doesn't feel good. especially, when you are so close to the school. when your child has every right to get in because he or she is a citizen!
Just this morning I saw this group of boys from Catholic High..and non of them are locals..felt kinda of sore... -
the govt keeps changing this changing that (not as if they are improving situation), but why aren’t they doing something about this crap system???
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Yes, I feel sore all time when I see Cat High boys, PR or not. Just blame it on my luck for not marrying a Cat High boy.
I also felt sore when I met a China PR mama who managed to ballot her boy into Ai Tong at Phase 2C.
Well, what can MOE do? Introduce entrance exams at popular schools? I think that might be fairer. -
haha... i dun feel sore if the school is quite far away (maybe about 2km away), coz there is no ground to be sored...
BUT if a school is nearby your place (less than 1km, even less than 500m away), and yet you have to see PR going into that school smiley and yet your child (A CITIZEN) can only see these people go to the school, and he or she has to take school bus (and have to take those nonsense bullying on the bus, and gotta pay for the exobitant sch bus fare coz you can't afford another car), you will be more than sore.
TO the people at the ivory tower: HOW DO YOU FEEL IF YOUR CHILD(REN) HAS(VE) TO GO THROUGH ALL THESE??!! -
smurf:
Never occur to them before? its like asking people to imagine if there is no atmosphere on earth...
TO the people at the ivory tower: HOW DO YOU FEEL IF YOUR CHILD(REN) HAS(VE) TO GO THROUGH ALL THESE??!!
Yesterday talk to a admin staff of a normal neighbourhood school. Number of PVs for her school has doubled in this 2 years due to fear of single session (among other reasons).
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