All About Home Addresses

[Jennifer]

I heard from sb staying in Blossomvale that most rental apts in this condo change tenants every 2 years.


I would think the lower pri years are formative years. if your friend really wants to get into the sch, it is better to stick to the rental plan for at least 2 years instead of exhausting the young child with a travelling of > 2 km distance every sch day. She has to consider CCA timetables too.

[LOLMum]

jtoh:

$2.5K rental? Impossible. Renting the address maybe? Even $4K is unlikely.

Possible if it is one room flat. Which means rent whole apt of one year, don't live there, change address before registration.

But if caught, one parent would be charged in court and kid kicks out of school. So is it worth it?

[jtoh]

LOLMum:

jtoh:

$2.5K rental? Impossible. Renting the address maybe? Even $4K is unlikely.

Possible if it is one room flat. Which means rent whole apt of one year, don't live there, change address before registration.

But if caught, one parent would be charged in court and kid kicks out of school. So is it worth it?

In a condo next to ACS? I seriously doubt.

[LOLMum]

haha so true if it is those at chancery and balmoral and goldhill. but 1 km covers a not too small area so dont just look at dunearn road side. better dont say more............. :evil:

[verykiasu2010]

LOLMum:

haha so true if it is those at chancery and balmoral and goldhill. but 1 km covers a not too small area so dont just look at dunearn road side. better dont say more............. :evil:

possibly those old apartments opposite Thomson Hospital may be within 1 km of ACS

can check with onemap.sg

but is bad for the kids especially when such scamming kena whistle blow and kid got expelled from school

[phtthp]

usually who will blow whistle ?

is it those parents whose son balloted out of ACS ?

[LOLMum]

maybe but how would the parent know unless she is a friend feeling sore cos she did everything legally and yet…


it could also be a parent from school who doesnt approval of such tactics especially if the parent (successfully got the child in via this method) brags and brags and brags about it.

[jtoh]

The thing is if you do something like this, the parents may know they have to keep it a secret, but what about the kid? Has he got to lie as well? Unfair burden on the kid? Teaching the kid that it’s alright to lie and cheat to get what you want?


Anyway what’s the point of getting the kid into the school when you stay in Jurong or Tuas or Yishun or somewhere where commuting will take more than half hour one way in good traffic. It’ll be draining on the kid and the parent in terms of time and energy.

[LOLMum]

of course it is not right to cheat and not worth the price all parties have to pay. so dont be stupid (oh i love the way james belushi said it in the defenders). :evil: , parents who are registering soon.


most smart parents who decide to cheat would probably do it without telling their kid. so there is nothing for the kid to lie about cos he doesnt know anything.

it is only those insecured ones who kept stressing to the kid to lie about address that probably got them sniffed out by the school or the parents in the school. :roll:

anyway, most pri 1 kids would probably not be talking about address, how he got into the school, what the job of the dad is, etc, games and cartoons are more likely to be the the main topcis.

unfortunately, many do cheat the system and got away with it and you just dont know who. and even if you do, would you report it to the school or moe especially if they are your best friends, brother, sister?

so to me, if you really want that place in school, do it the right way.

:lol:

[LOLMum]

imoh, in life sometimes we do need to lie and cheat. it is just a matter of the degree of seriousness and how harmful the lie could be.


we always tell our kids to tell the truth and admit their mistakes but there comes a time, you have to let them know the truth which is sometimes one needs to lie.