Very exciting session. The 2 sets of twins came in last! Basically, 56 kids got in this year. It was nail biting. Twin 1 came in when there was 3 spaces left and twin 2 (Ballot Slip No. 1), took the last spot. Someone go buy 4D please.

3Boys:

From the outset, I had felt that this whole 2 vs 1 slip thingy to be churlish, immature and frankly, of minimal impact. Really sad to see the g'ment cave to popular sentiment on an issue which actually changes little. If you run the tilt in the odds on this over the entire cohort of schools doing balloting at 2B and 2C, I bet the nett effect is no more than 25-50 students impacted. And for that, we were happy to effectively label PRs 2nd class folk.....


If I do have a gripe against the gahment, is that they are far too willing these days to give in to popular sentiment against good, solid, pragmatic policy-making.

its election time, doesn't cost gahment too much, maybe a few more $$$ for the extra ballot slips, to make citizens feel better about themselves. :roll:

asck:

Well, if they make it an elimination ballot as mngb123 has suggested, then chances of citizens being picked over the PRs are higher cos we have 2 slips, correct?


But since there are only 5 PRs fighting with the citizens in this case as Poohbear has kindly reported, difference is not very huge also lah.

However, living up to the namesake of a kiasu parent, every possible ever-imaginable chance counts! So I would prefer to stick to the standard ballot heheh

Well, if they do elimination, the nail biting will be shorter.

Poohbear:

Oh that means there r 3 parents > 1km who didnt withdraw. :?


Do also note that out of the 62, there are 2 pairs of twins using single ID. That means if either 1 gets it, the other will also get it. So the vacancies effectively reduce by 2 if the twins are picked :shock:

All the best as we go thru the balloting next Fri

wah... you even got info on twins! That is thorough... hahahah. yah good luck all. quite exciting.

asck:

mngb123:

Just called the school. As of 1:55 pm, there are 58 (within 1 km) vying for the 55 spaces. The ballot is ON!

Now it is 65 (within 1km) vying for the 55 places after registration closed yesterday.

Balloting is on 13 Aug 9am.

School just called. Its 62 vying for 55 places. Sigh. Why don't they just pick the 7 unlucky parents and get it over with! 8P

xmaz3:

fionaufy:

am i suprised so many registrations for this year..suprising Henry park not that much registration...

We were taken aback also when we saw the no. of registrations for 2B in FMPS this year. We were relieved when there was no balotting for those <2km as we knew of 1 neighbour living in the same compound as us but is outside 2km.

What to do. Time for tikam tikam.

Just called the school. As of 1:55 pm, there are 58 (within 1 km) vying for the 55 spaces. The ballot is ON!