MOE Relooking P1 registration - Too much priority to alumni

[corneyAmber]

laughingcat:

ksi:

I feel sorry for Singapore to have to do this and weaken the alumni link in schools. Perhaps I am a just sentimental fool because all schools I had attended have very rich history in Singapore so I can feel strongly about alumni ties. :sad:

Me TOO! I will be damn sad especially I have been actively contributing to the school through sweats and precious time spend ever since the day I graduated from U. :faint:

:hi5:

[corneyAmber]

laughingcat:

concern2:

Sentimental fool,
I am one too.
for I whose school,
Neither elite nor known to you,
Has seized to exist
without any ceremony or a note in the news.
I envy you - you still have your school.

You are humorous

She has a wicked sense of humor that I like.....

[iRabbit]

Sorry I don’t have ST with me. What is the scope of this MOE initiative? Is it just for P1 registration? What about Sec sch enrolment, in particular the issue of affiliation between Pri and Sec schools? Think someone earlier mentioned this briefly.


Reason I’m saying this is that if we find alumni priority in P1 registration undesired (since it is based on past connections), then surely judging by the same yardstick, we cannot say that this Pri-to-Sec affiliation is desired as it is also based on the same criterion of past relationship.

[concern2]

laughingcat:

concern2:

Sentimental fool,
I am one too.
for I whose school,
Neither elite nor known to you,
Has seized to exist
without any ceremony or a note in the news.
I envy you - you still have your school.

You are humorous

Hey! It's supposed to make you tear!

[concern2]

ksi:

She has a wicked sense of humor that I like.....

:rotflmao: Thanks, ksi, finally I know my kind of humor has a name to it - Wicked

[crescent]

jtoh:

limlim:

[quote=\"BlueBells\"]

She added that the scheme aims to allocate school places according to a set of fair and transparent criteria that are in the child's educational interests.


There are six phases in the registration process, with siblings of children already in a school getting top priority. Next come the children of alumni, parent volunteers or those with church or clan connections.

This.

What has church or clan connections anything to do with the child's educational interests??????!!

Should be removed totally!

PVs.. to some extend.. could be retained.. As parents who are active in the school understand the school system better.

And, as they contribute to the school (in terms of time and effort), it is fair that some priority be given.

This is meritocracy.. unlike connections..

There are Catholic schools, Christian schools, Buddhist schools. And these impart religious values to the children which some parents do look for in their choice of school.[/quote]Yes, I will have to agree that for catholic, christian schools, they should give priority to those of the some religion as parents will want schools to impact religious values to their children.

[tankee]

FQW:

Sorry I don't have ST with me. What is the scope of this MOE initiative? Is it just for P1 registration? What about Sec sch enrolment, in particular the issue of affiliation between Pri and Sec schools? Think someone earlier mentioned this briefly.


Reason I'm saying this is that if we find alumni priority in P1 registration undesired (since it is based on past connections), then surely judging by the same yardstick, we cannot say that this Pri-to-Sec affiliation is desired as it is also based on the same criterion of past relationship.

Just Primary School

[Snow Crystal]

concern2:

Sentimental fool,
I am one too.
for I whose school,
Neither elite nor known to you,
Has seized to exist
without any ceremony or a note in the news.
I envy you - you still have your school.

Nice one!

[corneyAmber]

concern2:

ksi:

She has a wicked sense of humor that I like.....

:rotflmao: Thanks, ksi, finally I know my kind of humor has a name to it - Wicked

You are your unique brand (and I like) ...not your school... People with alumni just enjoy old ties, not brands.

[3Boys]

Snow Crystal:

It's very sentimental when you see the grandfathers walking with their grandsons to the same school which they attended some decades ago. You can see the pride in their eyes. Really. Imagine this affiliation link taken away from these folks. My family has no such affiliation links but these are real people I see.

And such sentimentality should trump over the outrage of frustrated parents who have no recourse to popular schools located next door to them, by dint of the fact that they were not alumni?