troychua79:The question is how much is on their own? Even IP school like RI or Hua Chong depend on MOE for 90% above for funding. And the primary school is compulsory education, not to forget.friendli:Agree with Waterbay that the Phase 2A is not fair. Only the contribute alumni should be given the priority rather than the ones who already graduated 30 years ago and never come back to school after that. For top schools, people(alumni) who live very far far away to have their 6 years old child waken up very early to attend the good school. This is not good for the young generation's health and safety, and bad for transportation situation in Singapore at least. Now as Waterbay said, most vacancies are taken in Phase 2A, that means top parents from top schools transfer their priority to their children and left almost nothing(20+20 from 300 in all) to the ordinary citizens. However, where is the primary school get money from? the Alumni or the TAX from everyone?
IMHO.
Most of the popular schools are Govt-aided schools meaning they are financially independent from MOE to a certain extent, they can get money from alumni fees and can conduct their own fund raising, and they tend to grow faster because of the additional money. So phase 2A is supposedly to \"reward\" this group who contributed to the growth of the school financially.
