MOE Relooking P1 registration - Too much priority to alumni
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downtime:
the moe review should include new priority for parents to enrol children near their work place. This will reduce the trafffic congestion for parents rushing from point A to B. Along parents to attend to their children matters easily during the lunch break, or whichever deem reasonable by their company policy.
If children school is just across the street, 1 hour time off is sufficient for parents to attend urgent matters.
I believe this will contribute to work-life balance and a mother who has to juggle between work, home and children.
but work hours are typically much longer than school hours -
Very heated speculation indeed. Why would anyone complain that Singapore is a boring place??? Our city is full of heart-stopping roller coaster events.
Just curious how old Mr Heng's children are..Maybe that will help in the roll-out dates of the proposed changes. Don't think the 2006 and 2007 babies will be affected. BETTER NOT :stompfeet: -
Power Puff:
Mr Heng looks like someone in his 50s...hope I am not too far off. If he is really in his 50s, then his kids will prob be in secondary or JC...depending in how many kids he has.Very heated speculation indeed. Why would anyone complain that Singapore is a boring place??? Our city is full of heart-stopping roller coaster events.
Just curious how old Mr Heng's children are..Maybe that will help in the roll-out dates of the proposed changes. Don't think the 2006 and 2007 babies will be affected. BETTER NOT :stompfeet:
Alumni should stay...for the ease of entry for our future generations. -
downtime:
Great idea!!!the moe review should include new priority for parents to enrol children near their work place. This will reduce the trafffic congestion for parents rushing from point A to B. Along parents to attend to their children matters easily during the lunch break, or whichever deem reasonable by their company policy.
If children school is just across the street, 1 hour time off is sufficient for parents to attend urgent matters.
I believe this will contribute to work-life balance and a mother who has to juggle between work, home and children.
But follow Daddy or Mummy?
What if change job? -
becknat68:
Agree!!!......does our government have any idea how hard it is to be parents in Singapore??
That why someone should not blame us for not given birth enough as an excuse to bring in more foreigner.
It should be bring in more foreigner to increase our GDP (err..., or is it Tax Revenue?). -
JonC:
If we intend to have kids, we will give the child everything. Education is the biggest killer now...if our kid cannot cope or failing, we as parents can't turn a blind eye right ?
Agree!!!becknat68:
......does our government have any idea how hard it is to be parents in Singapore??
That why someone should not blame us for not given birth enough as an excuse to bring in more foreigner.
BTW, I know of several PRCs who do not multiply to replace themselves either...they stopped at 1. Why ? Because standard of living is too high. -
Just remove PV and grassroots. Everything else retain. And Singapore citizens kids with both parents who are Singapore citizens have priority.
The rest, like those with one parent PR and the other parent SG citizen, and all foreigners last priority. -
raysusan:
possible...but only admin can tell by ip track[/quote]No need to speculate, I'm not another poster who is afraid of being associated with. I have been a passive reader of KSP but when I read the selfish suggestion of capping phase 1 to transfer seats to phase 2A...because the people in phase 2A felt `threatened' that the alumni might have to give up their priority (mind you, its just pure speculation that alumni are targeted), I'm compelled to rebut that suggestion. It was not to attack phttph per se, but the suggestion itself.limlim:
[quote=\"Tokidoki\"]IDad is it existing member in this thread that dun dare to review true identify? Created new acct just to attack Phttph?!
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.......
Since there are so many proposals put forward, I might as well throw 1 in the ring.
Phase 1: Keep phase 1 intact, ie sidlings automatically qualify and parent is a staff of the school. Balance of seats goes to next phase.
Phase 2: Merge all the PV, GRL, Alumni, Board Memeber priority and ex-sidlings into 1 phase and if more applicants than vacancies, ballot based on distance proximity (rental included). By putting all the `priority' schemes into 1 pot, it will eliminate the discussion which group of volunteers is entitled to greater priority. All are treated the same, fairest way.
Phase 3: All other applicants.
The new scheme should take effect for children born 2008 onwards.
I deliberately avoided the discussion of PRs and foreigners as I'm a Singaporean and I'll be biased and I also think it should be discussed in another thread. -
I just called MOE hotline and asked if there's any updates as to when the new policies for P1 registration kicks in.
CS replied, \"Hold the line please and let me do a quick check if there is any information on this yet.\"...(waited almost 3 min)..
\"I am sorry, there is no information yet. Pls call again in end May or early Jun. There will be more information by then.\"
I guess it will be release just in time before P1 registration but may not be a major change though. Putting all the inputs from the parents together, I hope siblings, alumni (active members only) and distance get the priorities.
Honestly I think grassroots and PV is not that important because these people tend to disappear after their kids get a place in the school. It is even sad for those who clocked in the number of hours but in turn get balloted out. A strong parent support group (PSG) is more important than PV as those in PSG are the ones who will continue to contribute to the school till their children complete PSLE.
Foreigners - those on expatriate package usually put their kids in international schools and not local schools. (not much concern to us)
Foreigners - non expat. these are the people who will consider local schools. 1 of my colleagues is thinking of applying PR for herself so that her kids can get priority to local schools. However, she will let her children decide if they want to be S'pore citizen when they turn 18. If the boys want to as the concern is that they need to serve NS. They want the best of both worlds!
PR - Length of stay in S'pore should be considered. If they have been staying here for more than 5 years and the kids are born in S'pore, they do deserve some priority.
Anyway, I do not understand why MOE has to disclose a bit of information, keep a little and keeping people in suspense. I rather they release all information at one go! For sure, some will be happy and some sad but I rather know it early.
If I bump into Mr Heng, I will definitely tell him that all schools are TOTALLY not the same. I came from a neighbourhood primary school and I know it best! Sometimes I do pity those young teachers who are posted to those not too good neighbourhood pri school. Having graduated with lots of passion in teaching but the cruel reality is that you teach and teach (totally committed) but see little or no results. Students background are different from those in elite schools. Same amount of effort, you see the results in the better schools.
MOE should start to bridge the gap between the lower tier neighbour schools and those SAP/GEP schools. Do in depth analysis why these schools, after 10 years, still cannot produce PSLE score > 275. Why the % of quality passes is consistently low every year? Principals issues or \"feng shui\" of the school? :evil: Till then, do not comment that schools are the same. -
Since there are so many proposals put forward, I might as well throw 1 in the ring.
Phase 1: Keep phase 1 intact, ie sidlings automatically qualify and parent is a staff of the school. Balance of seats goes to next phase.
Phase 2: Merge all the PV, GRL, Alumni, Board Memeber priority and ex-sidlings into 1 phase and if more applicants than vacancies, ballot based on distance proximity (rental included). By putting all the `priority' schemes into 1 pot, it will eliminate the discussion which group of volunteers is entitled to greater priority. All are treated the same, fairest way.
Phase 3: All other applicants.
:boogie: Whatever change the gov makes, it will benefit some and it is definitely gonna hurt some! :xedfingers:
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