MOE should give P1 registration priority to SG kids?

[lim72]

Jojobar:

Hi all,


I am a silent reader of this forum but cannot stay silent on ths topic. I had personally wrote to mr Heng and pm lee on this topic late last year. In fact, I will be writing again to them to remind their new policy should align to the overall\" Singaporean first\" intent policy which we have seen in other recent review policy.

THANK YOU!!! :rahrah:

[mamemo]

Daddy

\"Some parents admitted, however, that they picked an international school because their children had failed to get into prestigious Integrated Programme schools or junior colleges.


Entrepreneur Rachel Wong, 44, is looking to send her Secondary 1 daughter to an international school by the year end.

She said her daughter, who had attended Raffles Girls' Primary, did not fare well in the Primary School Leaving Examination, and so was put in the Normal stream in a neighbourhood secondary school.

'She is without friends there, and... it has shattered her confidence. I think she's a late bloomer. She just needs a different environment where she can get more attention, so I'm willing to fork out $20,000 a year to get her that.'\"

From the same report... Quite sad lor... The things $$ can buy...
Cannot go Express stream... But can go International sch...
Neighbourhood sch= shattered confidence
Simi logic?
:siao:

Guess it's because all parents wants the best for their kids (or the parent cannot bring herself to tell her friends that her daughter is in neighborhood school ?) . It's like cannot enter local U, enrol in overseas U, just that this is happening at Primary-Secondary school.

[1amber]

lim72:

Jojobar:

Hi all,


I am a silent reader of this forum but cannot stay silent on ths topic. I had personally wrote to mr Heng and pm lee on this topic late last year. In fact, I will be writing again to them to remind their new policy should align to the overall\" Singaporean first\" intent policy which we have seen in other recent review policy.

THANK YOU!!! :rahrah:

:rahrah: :rahrah: :rahrah:

[cherrygal]

mamemo:

Daddy

\"Some parents admitted, however, that they picked an international school because their children had failed to get into prestigious Integrated Programme schools or junior colleges.


Entrepreneur Rachel Wong, 44, is looking to send her Secondary 1 daughter to an international school by the year end.

She said her daughter, who had attended Raffles Girls' Primary, did not fare well in the Primary School Leaving Examination, and so was put in the Normal stream in a neighbourhood secondary school.

'She is without friends there, and... it has shattered her confidence. I think she's a late bloomer. She just needs a different environment where she can get more attention, so I'm willing to fork out $20,000 a year to get her that.'\"

From the same report... Quite sad lor... The things $$ can buy...
Cannot go Express stream... But can go International sch...
Neighbourhood sch= shattered confidence
Simi logic?
:siao:

Guess it's because all parents wants the best for their kids (or the parent cannot bring herself to tell her friends that her daughter is in neighborhood school ?) . It's like cannot enter local U, enrol in overseas U, just that this is happening at Primary-Secondary school.

:moneyflies: Money talks. That's why my dad also said before that maybe we shouldn't get too hung up on the prestigious primary schools and PSLE results coz ultimately, money can push the person up the ladder. So many average pple have become doctors and lawyers with their parents' money. No matter what, they are still doctors and lawyers now. Who cares where they studied? And one of those supposed \"failures\" is now taking over her dad's law practice. Nothing is fair in this world. :offtopic:

[Mawar]

I have nothing against parents who use their financial muscle to give their children a head start in life. They have worked hard, and they are free to spend their money. In fact, I am pro choice. Use the money to put their kids into the private school of their choice.


Maybe there should be more private schools to give MOE a run for their existence.

[cherrygal]

Aiyah… so complicating… I feel apart from Phase 1 (siblings), the whole of Phase 2A - 2C should be combined into 1 phase. Foreigners come in at Phase 3.


Just give:
10 ballot slips to SG citizens (both parents) who live <1km, + old student / PV / clan / church
8 slips to SG citizens (both parents) who live 1-2km, + old student / PV / clan / church

6 slips to SG citizen (1 parent) / PR who live <1km, + old student / PV / clan / church
6 slips to SG citizens (both parents) who live <1km, no other connections

4 slips to SG citizen (1 parent)/PR who live 1-2km, + old student / PV / clan / church
4 slips to SG citizen (1 parent)/PR who live <1km, no other connections
4 slips to SG citizens (both parents) who live 1-2km, no other connections

2 slips to SG citizen (1 parent)/PR who live 1-2km, no other connections

1 slip to SG citizens and PRs who live >2km, regardless of any connections (this one is really heng suay)

Phase 2 Supp for those unsuccessful above.

Foreigners can only try at Phase 3 if any vacancies left.

[1amber]

Mawar:

I have nothing against parents who use their financial muscle to give their children a head start in life. They have worked hard, and they are free to spend their money. In fact, I am pro choice. Use the money to put their kids into the private school of their choice.


Maybe there should be more private schools to give MOE a run for their existence.

MOE should start first by giving parents the freedom to place their kids in international schools from primary school.

[janet88]

1amber:

Mawar:

I have nothing against parents who use their financial muscle to give their children a head start in life. They have worked hard, and they are free to spend their money.


Maybe there should be more private schools to give MOE a run for their existence.

MOE should start first by giving parents the freedom to place their kids in international schools from primary school.

If there are INDEPENDENT primary schools, then rich parents can send their kids there all the way...then the ordinary parents like us will have NO more problems with P1 registration. Present phases remain status quo.

[toddles]

1amber:

Mawar:

I have nothing against parents who use their financial muscle to give their children a head start in life. They have worked hard, and they are free to spend their money. In fact, I am pro choice. Use the money to put their kids into the private school of their choice.


Maybe there should be more private schools to give MOE a run for their existence.

MOE should start first by giving parents the freedom to place their kids in international schools from primary school.

This is a bit like making the primary school system like the preschool/childcare system today. Free for all, dependent on market forces. You pay for what you want to get.

I find that a bit disturbing, because it again favours the rich.

In fact, I am in favour for increased regulation and standardisation of the pre-primary sector so that parents are not held ransom in paying exorbitant fees for an adequate level of care/teaching. The high fees are going into owners/franchiseee pockets, not even the teachers', who are paid dismal wages.

At least with pri sch, the fees paid across the board are heavily subsidised and standardised, as well as the fact that all the teachers are NIE trained grads so there's some minimum standard. Whatever our beef with the current registration, at least ability to pay very high fees is not another factor to decide who gets to the 'good' schools.

If we go the preschool way, it might be a race to the bottom. The rich will be able to afford the posh schools with the great teachers, and the have-nots will get lousy \"public school\" teachers.

[huanghou]

Not at all. There are quite a handful of local parents who intentionally do not wish to enter the rat race and choose to put their kids in international schools. For now these parents must produce justification why their kid cannot enter local primary and it must be by reason of overseas work etc.


International schools go by IB program. It is a different curriculum from local program you will not end up in the scenario like rich get posh schools with great teachers.