MOE to stop publishing names of top students?

[Twinkies]

Melodies:

Twinkies:

Do away with the hearsay ?

Not hearsay but it was published previously in the newspaper. Newspaper can report something that is not true meh?

Please share more to clarify the situation then

Please share more to clarify the situation then, please provide the link to the newspapers news clips?

[Melodies]

david59:

wonderm:

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I believe all of us here are concerned for our children n the future generations. My wish is that in whatever schemes or policies MOE will make in the future, it will not give more advantage to the cream of the crop at the expense of the weaker students.
It took many years for the government to finally give more funding to special education students after years of lobbying. Singapore needs to be pragmatic for economic reasons but it is time we also grow into a gracious society where we give helps to the weaker ones.

Take a good look at the Educational system in Finland.

3rd Nov in the \"Today\" newspaper, there was a very enlightening article in page 12 to 14 entitling \" Why are Finland's schools successful?\". Globally, their students ranked second in Science, third in Reading and sixth in Maths in 2009. And yet their students do not have mandatory standard exams up to age 16!

What really impresses me is that in their educational system, all students of varying abilities are taught in the same classroom and special attention is given to the weaker ones by special education teachers. This really revealed a sharp contrast with our country's approach to education which gives (knowingly or unknowingly) greater advantages to the brighter students.

Their approach to equality in education reminds me of a passage in the Holy Bible which emphasizes that the stronger parts of the body must give greater honor and care to the weaker parts of the body so that the whole body can function in unity and concern for one another.

1Corinthians 12:21 to 26 :
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

:goodpost: Yes! Ways to go.. :rahrah: :rahrah:

[Twinkies]

You claim, you prove

[atutor2001]

jtoh:

I'm well aware of the situation of IP schools. Are you? Do you know the number of vacancies available at each JC for O level intake? The number of vacancies available at these top JCs number in the HUNDREDS EACH, as much as other JCs which have affliated students or who are not IP. In other words, there are plenty of vacancies at these top JCs. You just have to be the best to get in bec all the top O students want in as well.

The figure is no secret. However, you may have reservation to reveal because of .... Anyway, I remembered it is something like 400, 400, 400 for ... About 100 goes to DSA, leaving about 300 for O level results. Correct me if I am wrong.

[Twinkies]

Accountability, not just infesting this site with hearsay, or spreading hearsay?

[bupashu]

Twinkies:

You claim, you prove

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[Melodies]

Twinkies:

Melodies:

[quote=\"Twinkies\"]Do away with the hearsay ?

Not hearsay but it was published previously in the newspaper. Newspaper can report something that is not true meh?

Please share more to clarify the situation then

Please share more to clarify the situation then, please provide the link to the newspapers news clips?[/quote] :yikes:
Am I talking to a parrot?

[Twinkies]

Sorry, Sun2010, my previous post wasn’t meant to reply you, poor timing that’s all…

It’s for the hearsay-spreader…

[Twinkies]

Melodies:

Twinkies:

Please share more to clarify the situation then, please provide the link to the newspapers news clips?

:yikes:
Am I talking to a parrot?

You claimed, you prove
It's yours to prove
Not us to prove you wrong

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Melodies:

Twinkies:

Do away with the hearsay ?

Not hearsay but it was published previously in the newspaper. Newspaper can report something that is not true meh?

Please share more to clarify the situation then

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100219-199740.html