phtthp:

agree, well said!


because once your own internal house is divided up with internal rivalry, with problems unresolved, there is no peace. Easily prone to external enemies outside who may seize the opportunity to attack.

in contrast, if everyone inside the house / school is united, then there is UNITY. When there is Unity, there is STRENGTH! Unity and Strength come together. One school, one heart in unison. Then the school can progress forward, advance faster.

These are motherhood statements. The Principal has to remove these destructive elements in the school or coax them to work with her. If she is not successful, GY will continue to suffer the consequences of :

a. low students enrolment (I was just told that low enrolment was not due to GY being in a holding school but the school is really unpopular and failing to produce results)
b. poor results because teachers don't do their work
c. poor quality of teachers
d. poor reputation from the above and constant blackmouthing by teachers of the Principal and the school
e. etc... to many to write.

I think someone should alert the either sleeping Principal or too busy to bother with the school affairs principal of this problem, otherwise the children will suffer. Again I was told that the Principal is not accessible, maybe one kind soul can try to reach her to alert her.

Maybe but it is none of my business as long as the school do their work to deliver results for the students.

Dear Marzuki,


I thought I should jump in to share my perspective because I am also a supporter of GY.

I have one nephew who studied at GY who graduated several years ago with fairly good PSLE score. He is now doing his National Service and will be going to university next year. His parents were very thankful to the teachers and the Principal. At that time, GY was not only very strong in Maths and Science, the students were also very discipline and innovative. Many parents opted to choose GY as their first choice school despite competition from neighbouring schools offering double session.

My current niece who is studying at GY hasn’t graduated and the school is in a temporary holding school at Ang Mo Kio. I think this explains why the enrolment is much lower. Maybe, there are not enough facilities in the holding school to accept more students and probably kiasu parents like us may prefer our children to join a school with a permanent premise. When the school shifts back to its brand new premises, I am sure there will be many more places available for students and teachers could also be happier as they are able to do their teaching more effectively with the new facilities.

Although I agree with you that GY overall results recently have not been satisfactory, I think this has to do in part with the poorer facilities. I think this could be the reason why the Principal has to take the lead to teach in the classroom, probably to show the newer and inexperience teachers how to do better. I don’t think the Principal will neglect her duty to manage the school at the expense of teaching.

The principal is probably unaware of the negative feedback by some teachers because, my sister recently shared with me that one of the teachers blackmouth the principal as useless and unapproachable on one hand and on the other hand, some other parents saw the teacher curry favour with the principal. I don’t think it is true that the principal is so useless. If she is really so useless, she would not have been appointed Principal by MOE. I have confidence in MOE’s selection of principals.

As parents, let us compliment what is not done well at the school by giving more home support and tuition for our children. I believe things will get better as the school re-establish itself in the neighbourhood with a spanking new premise.