Ex Scholar General Minister of Education introduces area cleaning to all schools

[Agoraphobic]

Domestic help may still be required, but only for certain cases, examples are like for sick/disabled elderlies in the home, disabled family members, etc. But for regular chores like sweeping, dishwashing, laundry, some cooking, these can be assigned to different members within the family. Everybody has to make sacrifices for the running of the household. I remember as a boy, my female cousins couldn't go out to play when the boys were fortunate to be free and spared from many chores like sorting out vegetables, folding laundry, ironing clothes, etc. Boys' chores were less domestic, and less regular, but we still had to bathe the dog, help dad wash the car. Girls weren't permitted to hangout with friends after dinner, whereas we boys stayed out at the sarabat stalls till they closed at midnight! All these while still completing homework and school assignments! We didn't have a maid, but had an old grand aunty who lived with us. She took care of the laundry (earlier, we had no washing-machine and she did the laundry manually!!), and she was fantastic in the kitchen, besides cooking the three meals, she was able to make all the CNY kuehs and bak chang when the seasons came around. After she passed away, things have not been the same. I remember she made all our belachan from scratch, laid them out to dry in the sun, and my job was to shoo away/catch the flies which gathered by the hundreds where the belachan was laid.

Cheers!

Precisely my point sir. Sinkies are getting soft! They did not have to do household chores like their mothers do in the time because of all these third world maids. Absolutely disgraceful! The crux of the matter is that maids have become too accessible, so much that regular children do not have to worry about chores at home. We cannot afford to let the poor and the middle class to become weak and effeminate. The final solution is to ban maids altogether for low income households earning less than 100k per annum, not replace good Singaporean values of hard work and discipline by replicating simple household chores in schools.

 

[congo9]

I guess he must have missed it when they stopped it in the SAF. So, now tekan all the school kids to do it. LOL. Area cleaning has been on and off for decades in singapore, has not made any difference to the contribution of good life habits among sinkies.

Daily cleaning by students will be introduced in all schools
The move is intended to inculcate in students a sense of responsibility and good life habits, says MOE.

SINGAPORE: Annual spring cleaning for the classroom or being rostered for weekly cleaning duty might be familiar to some, but now, the Ministry of Education (MOE) wants to make classroom cleaning a daily affair for students.

By the end of 2016, daily cleaning by students will be introduced in all schools, said Acting Minister for Education (Schools) Ng Chee Meng on Thursday (Feb 25).

According to MOE, all schools from primary schools to junior colleges have autonomy in the implementation of daily cleaning. This covers common areas such as classrooms and corridors, and excludes toilets.

This is being introduced with the aim of inculcating in students a sense of responsibility and good life habits.

MOE said that many schools have already incorporated five to 10 minutes of cleaning activities within their school hours each day. These schools include Xingnan Primary School, Park View Primary School, and New Town Secondary School.

The ministry said they looked at similar practices in other education systems - such as Taiwan and Japan - in the planning process.

Minister standby school.

 

[steffychun]

I guess he must have missed it when they stopped it in the SAF. So, now tekan all the school kids to do it. LOL. Area cleaning has been on and off for decades in singapore, has not made any difference to the contribution of good life habits among sinkies.

Daily cleaning by students will be introduced in all schools
The move is intended to inculcate in students a sense of responsibility and good life habits, says MOE.

SINGAPORE: Annual spring cleaning for the classroom or being rostered for weekly cleaning duty might be familiar to some, but now, the Ministry of Education (MOE) wants to make classroom cleaning a daily affair for students.

By the end of 2016, daily cleaning by students will be introduced in all schools, said Acting Minister for Education (Schools) Ng Chee Meng on Thursday (Feb 25).

According to MOE, all schools from primary schools to junior colleges have autonomy in the implementation of daily cleaning. This covers common areas such as classrooms and corridors, and excludes toilets.

This is being introduced with the aim of inculcating in students a sense of responsibility and good life habits.

MOE said that many schools have already incorporated five to 10 minutes of cleaning activities within their school hours each day. These schools include Xingnan Primary School, Park View Primary School, and New Town Secondary School.

The ministry said they looked at similar practices in other education systems - such as Taiwan and Japan - in the planning process.

He thinks this is still the RSAF? Cleaning Foreign object debris

 

[GoldenDragon]

This sort of suggestion no need to pay millions. Any cleaner will be capable of that and we pay them $8 an hr.

 

[frenchbriefs]

With this type of top down leadership and braindead command and conquer center,no wonder our country and economy is doomed,where is our samsung?where is our silicon valley,we are raising armies of robots and lamebrains,by the time they reach the top of the hierachy they have zero creativity left.pls bring on the ang mohs to lead us.bring back albert winsemius and the british pls.

 

[Papsmearer]

With this type of top down leadership and braindead command and conquer center,no wonder our country and economy is doomed,where is our samsung?where is our silicon valley,we are raising armies of robots and lamebrains,by the time they reach the top of the hierachy they have zero creativity left.pls bring on the ang mohs to lead us.bring back albert winsemius and the british pls.

Ang moh schools don't have area cleaning. I never heard of Swiss, UK, or American schools requiring their students to do area cleaning. How is this supposed to inculcate responsibility and good life habits with 10 mins of area cleaning every day? Good life habits start at the home, and students do it when they see others doing it. Just to come in and say 10 mins cleaning will instill responsibility and good life habits is idiotic at the very least.