Asia spending billions on tutors: study

[oxyleo]

Chenonceau:

Food for Thought... I don't agree with everything but I do agree that with meritocracy, elites believe they are ENTITLED to success whilst others are not... and fail on the attitude of stewardship... and empathy for others who don't succeed.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/opinion/19brooks.html


Again, I don't agree with everything but this is well-written...
http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_822110.html

Hi Chen,

Since this letter was shared here, I thought it may be meaningful also to share a viewpoint of another parent that was posted as a comment (via FB link) to the letter.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/pamela-lim/hikikomori-and-tuition/237013376359997

I don't agree with everything she says, but she does have a very balanced stand on parenting. I also identify with her when she says she doesn't know if she's right or wrong in her tuition guts.

Cheers!

[Chenonceau]

oxyleo:

Chenonceau:

Food for Thought... I don't agree with everything but I do agree that with meritocracy, elites believe they are ENTITLED to success whilst others are not... and fail on the attitude of stewardship... and empathy for others who don't succeed.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/opinion/19brooks.html


Again, I don't agree with everything but this is well-written...
http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_822110.html

Hi Chen,

Since this letter was shared here, I thought it may be meaningful also to share a viewpoint of another parent that was posted as a comment (via FB link) to the letter.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/pamela-lim/hikikomori-and-tuition/237013376359997

I don't agree with everything she says, but she does have a very balanced stand on parenting. I also identify with her when she says she doesn't know if she's right or wrong in her tuition guts.

Cheers!

Thanks a bunch... I know Pamela, who also wrote to ST Forum years ago... but I had never read this.

[oxyleo]

Chenonceau:

oxyleo:

[quote=\"Chenonceau\"]Food for Thought... I don't agree with everything but I do agree that with meritocracy, elites believe they are ENTITLED to success whilst others are not... and fail on the attitude of stewardship... and empathy for others who don't succeed.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/opinion/19brooks.html


Again, I don't agree with everything but this is well-written...
http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_822110.html

Hi Chen,

Since this letter was shared here, I thought it may be meaningful also to share a viewpoint of another parent that was posted as a comment (via FB link) to the letter.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/pamela-lim/hikikomori-and-tuition/237013376359997

I don't agree with everything she says, but she does have a very balanced stand on parenting. I also identify with her when she says she doesn't know if she's right or wrong in her tuition guts.

Cheers!

Thanks a bunch... I know Pamela, who also wrote to ST Forum years ago... but I had never read this.[/quote]Oh... That I didn't know. Ok will go google her letter. Thanks so much.

[oxyleo]

Found Pamela Lim's letter. Written in 2011. Not that long ago. MOE's response is attached in her FB note. Her daughter is very bright.


https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=167171200010882

[Chenonceau]

oxyleo:

Found Pamela Lim's letter. Written in 2011. Not that long ago. MOE's response is attached in her FB note. Her daughter is very bright.


https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=167171200010882

All her kids are very bright... 2 (I think)... are in Harvard at present. Amazing kids!

[verykiasu2010]

oxyleo:

Found Pamela Lim's letter. Written in 2011. Not that long ago. MOE's response is attached in her FB note. Her daughter is very bright.


https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=167171200010882

MOE's reply:



Equal Chances for All

We refer to the letter “It’s about who can afford better tutors” (ST Forum, 26/11), in which Ms Pamela Liu opined that students from well-to-do families would get into better secondary schools and questioned what would be left for bright but poorer students.
Ms Liu is wrong to assert that the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) has “evolved into an exam that divides the haves and have-nots among our 12-year-olds”. The top 5% of students in the PSLE do not come only from a few schools with rich parents. In fact, they come from more than 95% of our primary schools and across all socio-economic groups. In addition, over 2,000 students from 155 schools (or about 90% of our primary schools) successfully obtained a place in participating secondary schools this year under the Direct School Admissions (DSA) exercise, based on their talents in different fields. These students likewise came from various socio-economic groups. The criteria each school uses for the selection of students under the DSA are made public on their websites.
In our schools, all students have access to enrichment activities, such as art, music and sports programmes, or overseas training, exposure trips and competitions. Our school-based co-curricular programmes provide opportunities for all students to develop themselves in art, music, and sports. Additional funding is also provided to help students, especially those from less well-off families, go on overseas exchanges.
MOE strives to enable all students, regardless of their family background and circumstances, to achieve their full potential.



Jennifer Chan (Ms)

Director, Corporate Communications Division

schools do have funding to pay for those who are not financially well off, for those who qualify for the trips, they are not deprived. but some parents are too proud to acknowledge the need and blame the cost

[iRabbit]

schweppes:

after the heat , she's gotta spread some lurrve :love:

Why I read that as larva? Must be the heat ...

[schweppes]

FQW:

schweppes:

after the heat , she's gotta spread some lurrve :love:

Why I read that as larva? Must be the heat ...

or was it in heat? :scratchhead:

[Chenonceau]

oxyleo:

Found Pamela Lim's letter. Written in 2011. Not that long ago. MOE's response is attached in her FB note. Her daughter is very bright.


https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=167171200010882

There was another letter... years ago.

[buds]

BeContented:

Looks like any thread that buds patronize, she has the power to turn it into notti corner when u least expected it. :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

:imanangel:

You make me sound like mamasan liddat. :yikes:

Any ____ I \"patronize\"... can make it into notti corner!