lee_yl\" post_id=\"2135308\" time=\"1718864170\" user_id=\"17023:
I feel that our kids have been trained since young and that they might think it’s their way of life to build up their portfolio.
For those who have applied for DSA with their primary school kids would know that there is a lot of preparatory works on top of coping with the usual school curriculum. Like attending Math Olympiad training, enter MO competition (must try to get at least sliver somemore). Likewise for sports DSA. Come to Uni level, now need to prepare impressive portfolio for ABA and interviews, like volunteering work, relevant work experiences to the course one applied to, outstanding CCA (join student council etc.)
All these building up of nice portfolio started when the kids were in primary school! Maybe we think it is scary but to them, they have been brought up this way and probably this is just how life should be ?!?!
lee_yl,
The rat race has actually started since kindergarten days, from as young as 4 years old.
Do u recall that parents have started sending their sons & daughters to several type of kindergarten enrichment(s)?
Example
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1)
Parents send their daughters at 4 or 5 years old, nursery age onwards to learn Rhythmic Gymnastics, to attend ballet dancing, etc. You can see so many young toddlers wearing their ballet costume, attending this or that ballet school, in the presence of their proud mothers.
Why ?
so that by the time they reach 7 years old, Primary 1, Cca Coaches like Rythmic Gym instructors can easily identify out these young girls , who have painstakingly been trained past 3 years ago, at the age of 4 years old to 7 years old, to represent their primary school at lower Primary 1 level, in \"Rhythmic gymnastics\" (RG) in inter-school competition, against some other primary schools?
One good example ?
Take a look at Raffles Girls primary school.
Take another look at CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' Primary school -
how they select Primary 1 candidates, to join their school team, for RG.
Also,
take a look at Nanyang primary school, how they select students to join their school team in AG.
NYPS do offer AG, instead of RG !
Also, take a look at SCGS.
See how they select their lower primary candidates (students), to join their school team, in dancing.
2) how about for young boys?
Well, the same thing happened too !
Parents send their young sons at 5 years old for Sports, like fencing, tennis, badminton, takewando, wushu, swimming in their condominum swimming pool, etc.
Take a look at ACS primary schools, in both ACS branches.
Take a look at MGS (Girls) school, at Blackmore drive.
What happen to these children, when they grow up into primary, secondary, into Junior Colleges ?
Because
From as young as 5 years old, as a kindergarten toddler, they have already been taught : one must always build up an active, impressive portfolio, must have a strong Cca on your plate to exhibit your talents, so that u stand a chance for DSA. Cannot just remain passive, just study only, and expect to be selected for DSA. No such thing. This won't happen. This already drilled into them, from as young as 5 years old.
Therefore,
is it any wonder then that they will continue practising this same old style of behavior pattern and thinking, even when they enter into universities, before they even start to graduate or start to apply for jobs ?
No !
It Is only a natural progression, for them to think & behave like this.
Why ?
Because
of the \" kiasu\" competitive rat race behavior mentality taught or they have been exposed to, since young, from as young as 4 or 5 years old, when they were merely kindergarten toddlers.