I mean all pay the same amount of school fees but why this kind of privilege to the better ones? I just don’t understand the rationale for it. Maybe teachers or principals who are reading this can shed some light?

Hi,


Recently found out that the Pri Sch that my girl is studying is not being fair to all the students. What happen was the school started to stream P1 students and the better ones will make it to the top 3 class in P2. The rest of the classes made up of "mixed ability" pupils. And those in the top 3 classes the school is giving them supplementary (not remedial) lessons twice a week after normal school hours for their English and Maths. As for the rest of the classes, they are not given supplementary lessons except for the weaker students whom are required to attend remedial lessons. While I can understand the school’s reason to stream students of different learning ability to different classes, I cannot fathom why the school needs to give supplementary lessons to these supposedly better students while little is being done to the rest. It seems like the school is paying more attention to these group of students which is kind of like tyring to "groom" them.

My concern is with this kind of system in place, the better students will be better while those in the mixed ability class will fall behind. It’s like the income inequality - the rich becomes richer while the poor will stay poor or become poorer. sigh…