Our children's future-a reality check

[micromachine]

As a parent, do you and your children enjoy the relentless pressure to attend the expensive and exhaustive enrichment and CCA classes from kindergarten to PSLE to the 'O' or the 'A' levels, just to keep up with the MOE engineered education system and then ultimately having to fight with foreigners to secure a place in your own country’s university, a university that you helped to build, failing which, you will have to send your children overseas?

In any cohort year, less than 5% will be invited to the realm of elite exclusivity and entitlement, a divine class above all. On the surface, the meritocracy system is well defined, and therefore the 5% is deservedly entitled. In reality however, nothing is further from the truth because the 5% selection has been pre decided based on connections to the ruling elite or super rich, and then perhaps a few ‘commoners’ are randomly picked to join this exclusive group to demonstrate the so-called ‘meritocracy of the system’.

Side note : Notice the intricate web of fathers, mothers, uncles, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, in laws, cousins, nephews, nieces who are directly or indirectly connected into the government apparatus in privileged positions earning huge salaries funded by taxpayers.

Assuming you are the left over 95% and have the means to support your child’s undergraduate studies. On your child’s graduation, he/she will have to face a highly prejudiced system that works against Singaporeans, and compete for jobs with hundreds of thousands of cheap foreigners with credentials from unknown and unheard of universities.

Even then, if your children are fortunate enough to secure a job, their salaries will be depressed against the benchmark of third world country standards, and further have their career aspirations limited and stagnated by the diabolical and perverted elitist doctrine of GDP growth through citizenry marginalization.

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[JohnTan]

As a parent, do you and your children enjoy the relentless pressure to attend the expensive and exhaustive enrichment and CCA classes from kindergarten to PSLE to the 'O' or the 'A' levels, just to keep up with the MOE engineered education system and then ultimately having to fight with foreigners to secure a place in your own country’s university, a university that you helped to build, failing which, you will have to send your children overseas?

In any cohort year, less than 5% will be invited to the realm of elite exclusivity and entitlement, a divine class above all. On the surface, the meritocracy system is well defined, and therefore the 5% is deservedly entitled. In reality however, nothing is further from the truth because the 5% selection has been pre decided based on connections to the ruling elite or super rich, and then perhaps a few ‘commoners’ are randomly picked to join this exclusive group to demonstrate the so-called ‘meritocracy of the system’.

Side note : Notice the intricate web of fathers, mothers, uncles, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, in laws, cousins, nephews, nieces who are directly or indirectly connected into the government apparatus in privileged positions earning huge salaries funded by taxpayers.

Assuming you are the left over 95% and have the means to support your child’s undergraduate studies. On your child’s graduation, he/she will have to face a highly prejudiced system that works against Singaporeans, and compete for jobs with hundreds of thousands of cheap foreigners with credentials from unknown and unheard of universities.

Even then, if your children are fortunate enough to secure a job, their salaries will be depressed against the benchmark of third world country standards, and further have their career aspirations limited and stagnated by the diabolical and perverted elitist doctrine of GDP growth through citizenry marginalization.

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This is rubbish! Our education system here while not perfect, is far better than the education system in all our neighbouring countries. You should try being a volunteer teacher in places like Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, and you will see how much better equipped and advanced our education system is. You wanna study in Malaysia, where the system is institutionally biased against the non-Bumis?

Scholarships are given to Singapore based on their academic and CCA accomplishments, and not by race or family connections, which are rampant in many parts of Asia. Richer parents can afford to send kids for tuition, but that's the advantage of being rich. That is life. You can't expect the rich to not use their extra resources to give themselves an advantage. But the playing field is still fair because scholarships are NOT given to people simply because they are rich and well-connected. If a poor kids does better than a rich kid, the poor kid gets the scholarship.

If your kid, who is educated in Singapore and still loses out against some kid educated in a rural compound and attended college in some shit university in Luzon, then you should slap your kid and yourself and ask where did you go wrong?

 

[micromachine]

"If your kid, who is educated in Singapore and still loses out against some kid educated in a rural compound and attended college in some shit university in Luzon, then you should slap your kid and yourself and ask where did you go wrong? "

Where did I go wrong? Hmm...........I think .......

You don't want to know what I am thinking right now.

 

[Equalisation]

Give them a sense of pride ?

 

[po2wq]

Give them a sense of pride ?

if it makes it ezier ...

 

[micromachine]

Give them a sense of pride ?

the children or the parents?

 

[jw5]

The children. The song never mention parents.

the children or the parents?

 

[winnipegjets]

This is rubbish! Our education system here while not perfect, is far better than the education system in all our neighbouring countries. You should try being a volunteer teacher in places like Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, and you will see how much better equipped and advanced our education system is. You wanna study in Malaysia, where the system is institutionally biased against the non-Bumis?

Scholarships are given to Singapore based on their academic and CCA accomplishments, and not by race or family connections, which are rampant in many parts of Asia. Richer parents can afford to send kids for tuition, but that's the advantage of being rich. That is life. You can't expect the rich to not use their extra resources to give themselves an advantage. But the playing field is still fair because scholarships are NOT given to people simply because they are rich and well-connected. If a poor kids does better than a rich kid, the poor kid gets the scholarship.

If your kid, who is educated in Singapore and still loses out against some kid educated in a rural compound and attended college in some shit university in Luzon, then you should slap your kid and yourself and ask where did you go wrong?

If our education system is so wonderful, where are our nobel prize winners, where are our successful international companies? Look at the small Scandinavian countries - Sweden has Ikea, Denmark has Lego. Where is sinkapore? In the longkang.

 

[ginfreely]

So only 5% of Sporean cohort goes to university nowadays? That is very low. Must be many places reserved for FT. Anyway one solution is if the parents cannot afford to send children to expensive overseas universities, can send them to cheap third world universities where those Pinoy/ah neh/PRC graduates are hired all over Spore. Plentiful of universities from these countries are accepted by Sporean employers.

 

[sirus]

The children. The song never mention parents.

"Greatest Love Of All"

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

Everybody's searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfilled my needs
A lonely place to be
And so I learned to depend on me

[Chorus:]
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be

[Chorus]

And if, by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love

 

[cocobobo]

If our education system is so wonderful, where are our nobel prize winners, where are our successful international companies? Look at the small Scandinavian countries - Sweden has Ikea, Denmark has Lego. Where is sinkapore? In the longkang.

this is the reality check