Opinions of the Primary School Registration System
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LOLMum:
好••••好难。i am convinced only if the so many ministers / civil servants put their kids in these \"good\" schools....spread it out. take the lead. dont go via 2a or 2b route.
Imami:
But hey, moe says all schools are good schools. So, still painful right?
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LOLMum:
Regardless of whether it is branded school.. it is just as painful, if they applied but cannot get in.. look at some of those who couldn't get into the school at P2CS.. and complaining about PRs who applied at P2C took the places.KSP:
but it is even more painful for those who can't even get to the school where it is just a stone throw away.....
only if it is good school
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But what are the chances of not being able to get into an unbranded school had they applied at P2C? Chances are.. they most likely got in and unable to feel the pain.... -
Imami:
But hey, moe says all schools are good schools. So, still painful right?
Some unbranded schools provide far better support than known ones.
Principals are more caring and willing to help parents...like having vendors provide workshops to help coach kids at home. Even teachers are more hands-on. -
Lizzie:
However, there should be only one principle that should be held true consistently i.e \"distance\" upon which the school placement are allocated for, no? Was this not the basis that the school was allocated in the first place? Once move house, transfer to school nearer to home. That's it.
Wait... I can get my kid transferred to HPPS just by moving nearer to the school?!
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pirate:
Why HPPS? It's just an ordinary govt primary sch that got lucky in its day.Lizzie:
However, there should be only one principle that should be held true consistently i.e \"distance\" upon which the school placement are allocated for, no? Was this not the basis that the school was allocated in the first place? Once move house, transfer to school nearer to home. That's it.
Wait... I can get my kid transferred to HPPS just by moving nearer to the school?!
If got that kind of money, move to nearer SCGS, MGS or ACS better choice lah. :evil: -
LOLMum:
i am convinced only if the so many ministers / civil servants put their kids in these \"good\" schools....spread it out. take the lead. dont go via 2a or 2b route.
Imami:
But hey, moe says all schools are good schools. So, still painful right?
No two schools are the same and they can never be the same. Yes, they may be purportedly to be good schools. But what is good? what is bad? All that's available to be seen and evaluated are the concrete facts - School results, the CCA provided for, the strenght of the alumnus and the track record. The reason why so called\" branded schools\" are popular are due to reasons such as strong alumni network, the \"name/reputation itself\" carries weight (which may lend credence and favour in the future and prospect of the child), enrichment courses or CCA (which may not be available in some other schools), the environment in which the child studies in and the people they mix around thereby the influence on the child are definitely not and not the same . No matter what is said, that all schools are the same - just think again. Hence, to convince us that all schools are the same, what should be done would be, to reset all the button and allocate students on based on one equitable system- distance . -
Lizzie:
LOLMum:
i am convinced only if the so many ministers / civil servants put their kids in these \"good\" schools....spread it out. take the lead. dont go via 2a or 2b route.
[quote=\"Imami\"]But hey, moe says all schools are good schools. So, still painful right?
No two schools are the same and they can never be the same. Yes, they may be purportedly to be good schools. But what is good? what is bad? All that's available to be seen and evaluated are the concrete facts - School results, the CCA provided for, the strenght of the alumnus and the track record. The reason why so called\" branded schools\" are popular are due to reasons such as strong alumni network, the \"name/reputation itself\" carries weight (which may lend credence and favour in the future and prospect of the child), enrichment courses or CCA (which may not be available in some other schools), the environment in which the child studies in and the people they mix around thereby the influence on the child are definitely not and not the same . No matter what is said, that all schools are the same - just think again. Hence, to convince us that all schools are the same, what should be done would be, to reset all the button and allocate students on based on one equitable system- distance .[/quote]But surely if we go by distance only it still isn't equitable as some schools will be in the middle of landed/private property estates and therefore full of children whose parents can send them to endless tuition/enrichment while other may be in less affluent areas and full of children whose parents can barely make ends meet.
You can't press \"reset\" entirely so what will happen is the value/cost of property surrounding the brand-name schools will sky-rocket.
I didn't grow up here but in the UK where that was the system in place at the time. We lived in a private estate which fell in the catchment area for a school with a terrible record simply because it was in the middle of a very run-down public housing estate and most of the pupils' parents didn't care what the children were doing. My parents ended up paying for me to go to a private school as there was no way they would send me there. We eventually moved before my brother started primary school so that he didn't have to go there. -
Give everychild an equal base line at least for the starting years of their education such as primary school. The real and true meritocratic system would be purely based on individual’s performance at PSLE , 6 years later down the road, assuming everyone’s enrolled fairly in the different schools based on a equitable system. Yes, everyone’s born different , to different families of different status or income but the system should not accentuate these differences further. The system should at least assure equal playing field at the starting point. If the divide comes early even at such a young age, I cannot imagine the gap could get only wider if the later years.
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pirate:
Ghim moh estate has taken up too many places at HPPS. Not much chance as most places taken up by sibling phase n old girls boysphase.Lizzie:
However, there should be only one principle that should be held true consistently i.e \"distance\" upon which the school placement are allocated for, no? Was this not the basis that the school was allocated in the first place? Once move house, transfer to school nearer to home. That's it.
Wait... I can get my kid transferred to HPPS just by moving nearer to the school?! -
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