S'poreans to get priority for P1 places during balloting

[LOLMum]

guillemard:

Wow good news for me! M staying within 1 km. ( in fact the school is just downstairs, less than 3 min walk. )


But what if let say left 30 places at the last phase but there are 35 SC which are all staying < 1 km?

All will get in?

Ballot among the 35 SC?

Or go by who stay nearest get in first?

30 places available with 35 sc living within 1km.

then have to balloting for all 35 sc.

[zeemimi]

guillemard:

Wow good news for me! M staying within 1 km. ( in fact the school is just downstairs, less than 3 min walk. )


But what if let say left 30 places at the last phase but there are 35 SC which are all staying < 1 km?

All will get in?

Ballot among the 35 SC?

Or go by who stay nearest get in first?

Ballot among the 35 SC

[Tokidoki]

guillemard:

Wow good news for me! M staying within 1 km. ( in fact the school is just downstairs, less than 3 min walk. )


But what if let say left 30 places at the last phase but there are 35 SC which are all staying < 1 km?

All will get in?

Ballot among the 35 SC?

Or go by who stay nearest get in first?

should be ballot among the 35 SC. but chances of you getting in will be higher since no PRs to fight with you.

[Daddy D]

FQW:

puff:

Those worse hit by this news will be PR who have already shift to 1 km of the popular sch n have done 40hrs of PV. ...with the new changes they may not even stand a chance

No, the worst hit are those who shifted but did not do any PV at all. These people then really no chance if you're talking about any school remotely popular.

Erm, does that mean that the properties in the proximity of popular schools will drop eventually ..... thus inevitably dampening the whole property market as part of the trickle-down effect?

Could be... Lotsa of trickle-down effects...
All started with poor immigration policies...
To be unbiased... It's not the PRs' fault to begin with...

[jenao]

Daddy

No more PR vying for priority/connection vacancies?

E.g. PV, GRL, Church, Clan...

Still can, just don't target the super popular school that need balloting in phase 2B. As long as they target school without balloting at phase 2B, then will get in ahead of Sporean.

[puff]

Those PR affected especially this yr P1 reg, may not even have enuff time to plan for alternate plan.

[blueblue]

Actually I think the word ‘absolute’ priority in first paragraph is pretty misleading. At first I thought all singaporeans will get the places first, then followed PRs…regardless of any phase


Still better than nothing…

[carebear]

verykiasu2010:

citizenship is a privilege

not freely given when both parents are non-citizens even if the child is born in singapore, else another cry father cry mother episode

From what I know, a child can become a Singaporean only if one of the parents become a Singaporean.

Although this new MOE rule does not apply to me, but I am very glad the minister has come up with this.
I have lots of neighbours here who are PR's, so those with young kids who are Singaporeans in my neighbourhood will definitely applaud his decision.

[Tokidoki]

those popular pri schs likely will not have any vacancies for PRs at all this yr. all will be taken up by SC during P2B and P2C.

[Vevey]

would b good if MOE breakdown past years’ statistics by SC vs PR phase by phase to:

1. Show us the potential effectiveness of new policies n
2. Give this year’s applicants a feel of their chances in each phase.