Singapore primary education - Parents want the best for their child, ... hopefully no parents will be jailed for this

Commentary: Parents want the best for their child, but P1 registration cannot be only about 'me first'

Before considering bolder changes, we need to decide how to balance individual competitiveness and our collective values, say SMU’s Jacqueline Ho, NIE’s Jason Tan and NUS’ Vincent Chua.

SINGAPORE: In a high-stakes, credential-conscious environment, parents understandably want to deploy every available resource to secure their child’s educational future.

Recognising these pressures, the Ministry of Education recently announced adjustments to the Primary 1 registration framework. There will be more reserved places in Phase 2C for children with no prior connection to the school, up from 40 to 60 spots. Additionally, twelve schools in neighbourhoods with more private housing will offer a two-track Phase 2C to include those living beyond the usual 2km radius. CNA

Can anyone fault the parents for wanting the best for their children, especially in education? The Singapore govt understands this very well and is trying to do everything it could to satisfy their aspirations, love and devotion for their children and their future. This move will be music to the parents in Singapore.

Anyone thinks more should be done for the parents and their charge? Parental or motherly love must not be seen as a crime, or a serious crime that warrants jail sentences. Would the wise and clever men and women understand this?

"The stated goals of Phase 2A and Phase 2B are to preserve school culture through alumni, clan and church connections, and recognise volunteer or grassroots contributions. For decades, these priorities have defined the boundaries of what Singaporeans imagine the P1 registration framework can and should accomplish.

Yet while these policy objectives sound reasonable in theory, the registration rules meant to achieve them have become gameable levers of advantage in practice." CNA

A crime is a crime. But is gaming for a place in a good school for a child be seen in the same light as a violent crime or gaming in a casino or in the stock market? If so, then parents should not be allowed to do volunteer works for schools to gain points for admission as well. It is also a form of gaming. No?

What do you think?

China is building this and that, very good....BUT

 

Testing the waters? Businesses weigh China’s new trade shortcut to Southeast Asia

The Pinglu Canal provides China’s landlocked southwest region with a much shorter water route to the South China Sea - and Southeast Asia. But turning early business interest into sustained demand will be the bigger test, say analysts.  Melody Chan, CNA

Not to worry, anything China does will fail. China is going to collapse soon, or already collapsed 26 years ago. China's EVs, solar panel, EV battery, AI, chips, anything China seeks to do will fail. China's factories will collapse, China's robots will collapse....  They will look good initially, BUT will fail. China is doomed and will never overtake the Americans.

Happy? The brain dead Anglophiles can start to celebrate the collapse of China, after wishing for China's collapse for so long. I guarantee that Trump will collapse before China will collapse. Maybe the rogue America Empire will collapse before China. 

Who are the analysts that are praying for China's collapse everyday?

The Anglo Saxons do not know what is good and what is evil

The Brits, the forerunner of the USA, stole the North American continent from the Native American Indians by force. That was the biggest robbery in history. The USA stole most of their manufacturing expertise from the Europeans in the past but will never admit it. It also stole all the resources from other countries to fuel its manufacturing in the past but will never admit it as well. It is stealing oil from Venezuela, just outright daylight robbery in fact. The USA is going to steal all the resources of Greenland under its new agreement with Denmark. Watch the USA strangle Denmark into compliance.

USA committed the biggest fraud in history by pulling out gold in support for the US$ in 1971. What countries held in their hands were basically left with toilet papers supported by thin air, nothing more. To remedy that they conned the Arabs instead into using oil to support the US$ in 1973. Oil that the USA does not truly control to be used to support the US$ hegemony. To be able to con the Arabs into agreement, the USA used their mantra of protecting the oil installations in Arab countries by building military bases in the Middle East. The Arabs invited the devil into the house and have not been able to exorcise it ever since, digging a bigger hole by investing their oil wealth in the USA.

Iran is the only Middle East country trying to counter that for years and the USA knows it has to get Iran out of the picture. With no practical reason to take out Iran, the only avenue to exploit was demonizing Iran enriching Uranium to make a bomb. Iran, under religious constraints had never intended to go nuclear. That Obama agreement already did the necessary. And that agreement did put a stop to what the USA could do to Iran, until Trump just unilaterally tore it up. Now attacking Iran is open season for Trump with no agreement in place. And now Iran is going to make a bomb, sooner of later.

Do the Arabs now realize that the USA is unable to protect their interests in the Middle East? What is even more clearly exposed is that the USA is even unable to protect its own military bases and installations in the Middle East. A whole can of worms had now opened up for the Arabs to think about.

Now another front for conflict is opening up against the Saudis. The Bab Al-Mandab for navigation is under serious threat, with insurance premiums shooting to the sky. The Saudis are paying the price for its war against the Houthis. The Houthis have nothing to lose or fear, while the Saudis are being strangled and begging the USA for help.


Anonymous

The dogs barked, but the caravan moves on

As reported by some mischievous sites showing Xi hospitalized and in an intensive care unit in a hospital, why is there a Xi Jinping now shaking hands with Trump? Must be AI generated, like the one about Xi in hospital. Or was that a stand-in for Xi, lol. Putin has so many stand-ins. So does Kim Jong Un.

So much speculation about Xi's health lately came to naught. It destroys the reputation of those anti-China social media sites. Putin's health had been under scrutiny for years. He was supposed to have died many times, like the collapse of China. Even Kim Jong Urn's non-appearance for a few weeks cannot be left un-propagated.

Now there are much speculation circulating about Xi's hold on power in China with opponents going for his removal. How true are those? That video of Hu Jintao being removed from a meeting was given a real boosting by anti-China bots, with much speculation about the reason, but not really touching on the real reason.

There was also much speculation about Xi's departure from the BRICS summit in India and his non-attendance at the gala dinner hosted by Modi. The speculation even said that Xi suffered a minor stroke. Another was speculating about Xi's anger over Modi's criticism over China's rare earth control. Yet another was speculating about Xi being afraid of being poisoned consuming food in India. Only the fertile minded can come up with such mischievous ideas.

But, as they say, the dogs barked, but the caravan moves on.


Anonymous

The new forbidden fruit in America

 What is the forbidden fruit? According to the believers of the Bible, it is a fruit that should not be eaten. When eaten, the fruit would make the eater smarter or enlightened, to know the truth about shame if walking around naked and more. The forbidden fruit was actually a good thing, from the tree of knowledge, unless you believe being ignorant is a better thing. Man was forbidden to eat the forbidden fruit,...a bit like telling the people that AI is dangerous, knowledge is dangerous and should be forbidden.

What is the modern forbidden fruit in America? Actually the Americans are being teased with many forbidden fruits hanging in their face. Many good stuff are forbidden and kept away from the Americans, the free people of a farcical free country. The gods in Washington would not allow the 'free' Americans to have many things that are good for them. And the daft Americans accepted that. The Americans only have dumb blondes not smart enough to offer them the forbidden fruit, and would not dare to protest or want a taste of the forbidden fruits.

Real 5G technology is not allowed in America, only fake 4G disguised as 5G. The most consequential forbidden fruit of today in America is EV technology and EVs. These are the most advanced automobiles that have been kept away from the Americans, like the forbidden fruit in the Bible. Americans shalt not have EVs or shalt die if they do. Americans must be kept ignorant from what is good for them by their gods in Washington, fed with false information and fake news and lies, to keep them dumb and ignorant. The Washington clowns are planning to ban Chinese EVs from the Americans.

Now they are going to turn AI as the next forbidden fruit. AI is knowledge and information, AI is like the Tree of Knowledge and must be kept away from the brainless Americans. Keep the Americans as dumb as Adam or Trump, happily walking around naked. Knowledge and knowing are dangerous for the Americans. Keep the Americans safe from having too much knowledge, from knowing good from evil. Let them be forever like the brain dead hillbillies and rednecks, so said the white gods now controlling the Americans, what they can know, what they need to know and be happy in their fake world of freedom, liberty and Democrazy. Keep the brainless Americans safe from acquiring new knowledge or they will come to know that the American terrorists are committing war crimes, massacres, genocides and crimes against humanity, all the bad things. Now the hillbillies and rednecks did not know what is good and what is evil. Ignorance is a blessing for the hillbillies and rednecks. Actually their main target is the daft people of the world. Do not let them have full access to AI. This is to be monopolised by the Americans. Spread the fear of AI to frighten the shit out of the daft world. They will always be led or misled by the American narratives. When Americans say something is bad, it must be bad.

How long more will the Americans be kept in the dark, away from the forbidden fruits? When will a smart Eve tempt the Americans with the forbidden fruit and let them be free to know what is good and evil, and to have a taste of all the forbidden fruits that the world is having and enjoying?  When will the Americans have real freedom, freedom of choice, free to know what is good and evil, and free to have the best and most advanced and affordable EVs from China?