MOE Relooking P1 registration - Too much priority to alumni

[verykiasu2010]

PhoBIA:

Agree, with Nebbermind.

How many of the top schools now were top schools then. Whoever used to studied in those school never expected to enjoy any privilege until our children needs to go P1....

and Telok Kurau English School never even become famous at all

[PhoBIA]

verykiasu2010:

and Telok Kurau English School never even become famous at all

It's luck. Just hard that your kids school become a hot school in 30 years time so your grandchildren can benefit. :please:

[verykiasu2010]

PhoBIA:

verykiasu2010:

and Telok Kurau English School never even become famous at all

It's luck. Just hard that your kids school become a hot school in 30 years time so your grandchildren can benefit. :please:

that was the school LKY studied, but never ever becomes hot nor famous

[PhoBIA]

verykiasu2010:

PhoBIA:

[quote=\"verykiasu2010\"]

and Telok Kurau English School never even become famous at all

It's luck. Just hard that your kids school become a hot school in 30 years time so your grandchildren can benefit. :please:

that was the school LKY studied, but never ever becomes hot nor famous[/quote] :rotflmao: LKY alumni didn't work hard to promote his alma mater....

[phtthp]

PhoBIA:

verykiasu2010:

and Telok Kurau English School never even become famous at all

that was the school LKY studied, but never ever becomes hot nor famous

:rotflmao: LKY alumni didn't work hard to promote his alma mater....

:rotflmao: did LKY study 6 years throughout Telok Kurau primary (from P1 to P6), or did he transfer out to another school half way through ? where did his 2 sons & daughter study ?

[rains]

PhoBIA:

:rotflmao: LKY alumni didn't work hard to promote his alma mater....

Haha, because he's busy promoting another school, directly or indirectly.

I think he really graduated from that school as I remembered reading about his biography brief that he came from telok kurau and not another was mentioned at all.

Back to the topic, I was shocked to know that MOE is reviewing the P1 registration process. As a parent at the benefitting end of the current system, I hope it won't happen too soon. Like what some other parents have mentioned, I certainly don't want to go through the stress for registering at phase 2C. We also have a popular school within 1km but it was scary to read about how disappointed parents who were balloted out at 2C shed tears on papers. I'd rather save myself all these heartaches and stress by putting my kids in an alma mater more than 20km away.

There's another perspective that most people would not deem important, but it has affected me as a child and would/might affect my own kids in future, if my 2nd child does not get into the same school as her elder sister because of a change to the p1 registration: having siblings who attend different schools.

As a non-citizen, my 5 siblings and I went to 6 different primary schools because of insufficient places at our phase. We grow up with different beliefs and values and there was a lot of strife, disagreement and friction in the family. The 3rd and 5th sisters grew comparatively closer when eventually shared the same secondary alma mater. Of course I wouldn't attribute the hostilities entirely to the different-schools syndrome but I have no doubt it had aa significant impact on us. Apart from play, there was virtually no common ground among us. Our schools are different, teachers are different, even our textbooks and things taught in school are different. Each of us would believe that our own school was the best and defended our own school's culture, values and systems. I have noticed that even though my husband is not particularly close to his younger sister but they always agree on their alma mater's matter. And the only time he speaks well of her is when their alma mater comes into the picture. That make me wonder if my siblings and I could have a better, more congenial and kinder childhood if we had shared the same alma mater.

My kids are born 8 years apart, so apparently when my elder kid graduates from her school this year, I'll have to wait for 1.5 years to register my younger one at the same school under 2A2 for old boy's or sibling as an ex-student. It would be a worry to me if my kids have to go through the same tumultuous and unsettling childhood as I did if they don't share an alma mater. Being properly parented is no doubt important, but I'm sure the bond of sharing the same alumni would be a very precious experience.

[rains]

phtthp:

:rotflmao: did LKY study 6 years throughout Telok Kurau primary (from P1 to P6), or did he transfer out to another school half way through ? where did his 2 sons & daughter study ?

They studied in NYPS.

[Nebbermind]

rains:

phtthp:

:rotflmao: did LKY study 6 years throughout Telok Kurau primary (from P1 to P6), or did he transfer out to another school half way through ? where did his 2 sons & daughter study ?

They studied in NYPS.

OT. Heard the boys went on to CHS. What abt LWL?

[rains]

Nebbermind:

OT. Heard the boys went on to CHS. What abt LWL?

She went to NYGH.

[limlim]

PhoBIA:

For my case, I benefited from P2A. It was a easy way out. I didn't have to PV and was guaranteed a place. If I had chosen to go for a school within walking distance to my home, I would be at risk of being ballot out at P2C.

Anyway how many people are blessed enough to still within 1 km of their Alma mater...these are another set of problems, rising housing cost, lak of housing in mature estate....etc

If there is no P2A, P2B to take away some of the places, your P2C concern would become less of a concern.. althou it may not eliminate.

Do take note that there is only very limited number of \"good/popular\" school in Singapore, whereas almost everywhere (pluck from air figure of >90%?) there is a school nearby.

To satisfy the best interests of the majority, distance priority should have precedence over Alumni priority.

Say, P2A <1km, P2B 1~2km, P2C >2km, then, within each phase, alumni can have absolute priority followed by grass-roots, clans etc..

Put it this way, 2 desires, popularity and distance. I'm sure everyone desires these two key criteria. Lets assume 5% of all schools are popular or much sought after. Let's assume 90% of all housings in SG got a school within 1km (or 2km).

No matter HOW the MOE policy is, it will only satisfy 5% of ALL parents in SG for desire \"1\". But, a well planned policy can satisfy 90% of ALL parents for desire \"2\".

So, why not have a policy that satisfies 90% of desire \"2\", and 5% of desire \"1\", as compared to a policy that satisfy maybe <50% ( anything < 90%) of desire \"2\", and same 5% of desire \"1\"?

No matter what you do or how you do, you can NEVER achieve a higher % of satisfaction for desire \"1\" as the % of popular school is fixed.

BUT, we can work on desire \"2\" which is also very important to a kid in consideration of the best interest for All SG kids, not just selected groups like Alumni etc..

So, in fact, there is a way for MOE to please MORE pple, but of coz not ALL of them..

ps: \"caps\" to highlight a points only, no other intention.