Hi Karin


You were mentioning the creative writing centre in AMK. Could let me have the centre contact?

I’m keen to explore.

tks

Precisely.Totally illogical. This is a national primary school admission system and there is such a glaring GAP in the system. MOE keeps emphasing that home proximity rule will apply when demand exceeds supply from 2A onwards. But in reality, home proximity rule can never be applied in 2A else there will be NO 2B/C. Too bad for those aspiring to get into the school. Your mummy and daddy didn’t study here, so you never gonna get a chance as school has insufficent vacancies even to cater to offsprings of old boys and girls.

The crux is the gap in the pri sch registration sy.


When it comes to a situation where the home-school proximity consideration has to be applied for 2A, the school will be out of reach for phase 2B/C .

It just doesn’t make sense that when the home-school proximity is applied for 2A, it means there will be NO phase 2B/C for the school in question.
And if there is to be phase 2B/C,  the home-school proximity will never be applied for 2A.

A catch 22 situation. And herein lies the GAP in the current framework,whereby phase 2A till date effectively is not subjected to the home-school proximity consideration. i.e…blanket policy for phase 2A

I still think that it is not right that TUR at 2A hit higher than 60%. For 2010 registation, Catholic high was 91% and Nanyang 82%. There are many above 70%. How can it be called a public school when the school is effectively out of reach to the general public (2B/C)?

IMO, sub-divide 2A into active and inactive be it alumni or Board members. Priority confirmed registration only for ‘Active’.

This way, there will not be free rider and those who really contribute are also rewarded.

For discussion


Is PV the only option for parents to get a better feel of the school? Why not open house like what they did for polys, unis?

Preciousmoments: A national policy that impacts all children cum parents has to be robust and fair. It cannot favour one party over the other.

That’s the Equaity and Justice we pledge since pri school days.

hqQuek: Think we can’t equate PV with job interview. For job interview, once they confirm u and u do your job, they pay u. For PV, they confirm u, you do the job, no pay and they yet do not confirm tt u hv a place in the school.

Pen88n: By masses, I am referring to the general public as a whole, those without P2A link. And I use professionals to loosely refer to all white collar workers. So, the teacher who got in as PV is a professional. As to the air con technician, I think he may be just the minority. Bulk of the PV are still the white collar workers.
And elite,I am referring to the ‘in-group with get in thru P2A’.
I apologise if I have caused some confusion with the term elite and professional

LOLmum : Precisely, it is illogical that a child living so far away fr school get admitted under P2A while another living just next door do not under 2B/C

And Yes, the P1 registration needs revamp

Exactly…words are open to interpretation. Let’s don’t dwell too much into it but focus our discussion on the issue at hand.

verykiasu2010:

Why did not you enroll your children in your former school without doing PV - because it is not good enough ? producing such a person like you - that is why it is not popular and hence you needed to do PV in a popular school to get your offspring into that popular school ?

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I must be careful with use of words as people take it at face value. But, personal attack is ok if coming from you????

It seems that I am not even allowed to express my opinions in my own style. Words are just to convey the ideas yet the words I used are being ‘nit-picked’ at.


‘Some Catholic schools do not accept PVs, reserving the Phase 2B strictly for Catholics’ ---- I learnt about this from the post made by Janet_lee88 much earlier. And no one points out that this is not the case. So, I presume it to be true.