MOE Relooking P1 registration - Too much priority to alumni
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laughingcat:
How about the rights of a parent to send the child to a nearby school for which they are not alumni? You can talk about rights all day long, at the end of the day, its about fairness.
Exactly......that is still up to individual choice whether to go back to your own alma mater or not.janet_lee88:
I know there are several parents unhappy over this old boys/girls thing. However, not every parent sends their kids back to their former schools.
A former classmate of mine wanted to send her daughter back to alma mater but decided not to as she is staying too far away. Another friend didn't send her daughter to SCGS bcos she has a son...so decided to register them in co-ed school instead. -
laughingcat:
That is your presumption to say only some singaporean have pride and majority are disenfranchised. There is no real fact number to determine this.[/quote]Janet Lee's point was that pride in sending a child to an alma mater is justification for alumni priority. For something as important as P1 admission, where is the logic that 'pride' becomes the biggest factor in gaining priority admission? That ihat I am challenging.
What has pride got to do with this? Nope, it works for only SOME Singaporeans. Many others are disenfranchised. As I said in an earlier post, the foreigner factor should no be used as a smokescreen to propagate the alumni priority scheme, for the far greater number of affected are Singaporeans.3Boys:
[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]Parents are proud when they can send their kids back to their former schools...this is the beauty of being a singaporean born and bred here. this will fall under phase 2A.
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Sooner or later mod also has to embargo this thread liao...
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Daddy
Sooner or later mod also has to embargo this thread liao...
:rotflmao:
there is no reason to embargo this thread if fellow parents continue to self moderate as demonstrated above and refrain making from personal attack.
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3Boys:
agreed.
How about the rights of a parent to send the child to a nearby school for which they are not alumni? You can talk about rights all day long, at the end of the day, its about fairness.
unfortunately, fairness is personal. what is deemed fair by some is usually deemed unfair by some others. -
Just to side track, govt has also used the p1 registration as a policy to encourage birth rate, especially for the graduate mothers.
In 1985, if remember correctly( I was still a student then), govt actually gave priority to graduate mothers who has 2 or more children for p1 registration. My colleague actually benefitted from it. She got priority to choose ST nic for her girl.
This policy was later abolished due to criticism on it's elitism.
Think if this policy is still available, many grad mothers will rush to have more babies, :please: :imcool: -
Don’t panic, Mr Heng promised more good schools. At one time I tot he said tat all schools are the same. So now got good and bad schools, how so?
It amazed me tat he is able to produe more good schools, how so?
All these years I chose to believe tat schools are all equal but some are more equals. Some are destined to be feeder schools to IP or Expressed, whereas some are feeder to N or ITE.
If this is true is it an easy task to make bad school into good school. -
dorisp:
I hope not too!titank:
MOE reviewing is to finalise by coming 2012 Registration?
:yikes: :yikes: :yikes:
Think all the school administrators will also sweat over this if changes are annouced closed to June and then supposed to be implemented this year. -
Before I start, both my kids are already schooling or passed the P1 registration. So below comments is just for those who are still cracking their brain to turn their disadvantage to advantage.
The last pg is pg 30+, and still reading pg 8, already think there is so many talking to their own advantage because they think they are disadvantaged, in other words, talking rubbish just because they feel they are disadvantage. I personally feel that current regulations is sufficient, except to further improve the Singaporean (higher than PR and foreigner), PR (higher than foreigner) and foreigner.
Even if it is going to put proximity as a higher priority, (maybe this time round should cut to 500m, 1km, 1.5km, 2km), they should set rules like must stay in close proximity 5 years before P1 and 5 years after just like the HDB selling rule. If they move house, the poor boy will have to transfer or pay penalty of x% of the price of the house sold. This may (or maybe not) help to control property sky-rocket as there will not be so many house to sell due to the 5 years after rule.
Came to know there are some who make use of Grandparents address, some even God-Father/Mother’s address and all sorts of funny things people can think of.
Tell me honestly, how many after kids getting into the school, disappear from PV, start not going to church, not involve in Grassroot anymore, move house out of the area, etc? Answer is, Many.
I believe there are people who are sincere to serve and there are some just to fulfill whatever system put in place, be it PV, Grassroot, Clan, Church or Alumni (active) or Alumni (sleeping). Like the 5 years after house rule, these people should also serve say 5 years in the school clocking certain number of hours. They will be let go only in P6 to have time to concentrate on PSLE with their child.
For me, my DS got into my school in P2A2. After DS got into the school, both my wife and me started to PV in the school from P1 to P6, willing to help the school and DS, together we grow. I am still in the PV now even DS is now Sec 2 in the same school.
So the question here is how many serve with heart or serve with a purpose in mind.
Not all Alumni want to bring their kids to their own school as not all have positive feeling towards their own school. Some, if not most, definitely not all alumni, who still have strong feeling of their the school (active or sleeping) they have attended and truly wish their kids to have the same education. They just want what benefit themselves to benefit their own children from the culture and traditions of the school. And mind you, it is not the end when you kid get into a good, whether they will make it in school will still strongly depend on your kid (you know your own kid well), your support for your kid and your close support for the school and maybe even tuition. Also know of kids who got into "popular" school, but pull their kid out few months into P1 because their kid cannot take the pressure. Some are advice to transfer after given a chance to retain in certain level. This can cause even more hurt to the kid involved. Going to a "good" school does not always mean your kid will have a "good" ending.
Think what I say may offend many, but I am just stating truth and fact, just my 2 cents worth. Please do not flame me. -
JonC! Is a dad?!
Sorry to ot. I thought u r a mum. :oops:
Ok, back to the debate.
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