ONE of many reason why foreign workers apply for permanent resident is due to its world class educational system. It's all parent's dream to provide their children quality education if possible. Knowing huge gap in school fees between locals and foreigner, more and more people are trying to become PR around our community. After foreign worker quota reviewing, the P1 registration quota was introduced yesterday to upset SPR. Following complaints of Singaporean parent of school-goers and the fact that more than half of island city's primary schools has been experiencing to make balloting for its insufficient places last year, MOE tried to change existing policy to make Singaporean feel absolutely priority in all phases. It mean PR students will find it mission almost impossible to get access to a good school. They would be last in line of registration process just ahead of foreign students. The news also express the feelings of some PR with the new movement.
In fact, the current system already good enough for Singaporean to qualify the admission to their desired school. Current one let Singaporean student get double ballot than their PR student, that make their chance to gain access double. Surprisingly, it still unable to make Singaporean parent happy and prompt the authority to change policy again that apparently shut doors to PR and foreign students. It won't probably affect to rich PR students as they have choice to go international private school which grantee quality education as well. But for poor PR student, it's most likely to be gotten bottom class schools. At usual circumstance, I see Singapore as a meritocracy country that count everybody by their own merit. However the latest stunt seems to be authoritarian than meritocracy. Since Singapore is multiracial country, all the students should have been given the same chance by deciding their own merit regardless of where they come from especially between SC & SPR as both parties are contributing same CPF to the country, I think.
For sure, the latest movement make me clear what should I do next when my wife urge me to apply PR again in future. I'll try to convince my daughter to value and appreciate our own education system when she come visit here next month. Relax Singaporean, you have very kind leaders who always interest in your own benefit. Hopefully we also will get such leaders in the near future in our mother land. It's most likely as our lady is contesting in upcoming by-election on this Sunday. May NLD able to win the by-election with landslide result. We already itchy to return home soonest possible because there is no other places better than home.
In fact, the current system already good enough for Singaporean to qualify the admission to their desired school. Current one let Singaporean student get double ballot than their PR student, that make their chance to gain access double. Surprisingly, it still unable to make Singaporean parent happy and prompt the authority to change policy again that apparently shut doors to PR and foreign students. It won't probably affect to rich PR students as they have choice to go international private school which grantee quality education as well. But for poor PR student, it's most likely to be gotten bottom class schools. At usual circumstance, I see Singapore as a meritocracy country that count everybody by their own merit. However the latest stunt seems to be authoritarian than meritocracy. Since Singapore is multiracial country, all the students should have been given the same chance by deciding their own merit regardless of where they come from especially between SC & SPR as both parties are contributing same CPF to the country, I think.
For sure, the latest movement make me clear what should I do next when my wife urge me to apply PR again in future. I'll try to convince my daughter to value and appreciate our own education system when she come visit here next month. Relax Singaporean, you have very kind leaders who always interest in your own benefit. Hopefully we also will get such leaders in the near future in our mother land. It's most likely as our lady is contesting in upcoming by-election on this Sunday. May NLD able to win the by-election with landslide result. We already itchy to return home soonest possible because there is no other places better than home.
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