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Local school teacher and mother: Singapore's education system is a failure

k1976

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By Anonymous Teacher And Mother Of Two

Being a school teacher, I can tell you our education system is a failure.



Most of the school teachers are bogged down with too many students and too much non-teaching workload. When I was a trainee teacher years ago, this problem was already surfaced. MOE and NIE's response was that if we only want to teach then we should resign and go be private tutors. Teachers are expected to do a lot more than just teach knowledge and basic moral values.

If our schools are only thought to be focusing on teaching academics, then our schools are already failures. As parents, how many of your kids, especially in secondary school and junior college, flunked half their subjects in their recent midyear exams? Are you aware that over half the students failed at least one subject such as English, Humanities or Maths? It is probably a lot worse for those in the Normal Academic and Normal Technical Stream? Those of you with children in secondary schools and junior colleges can attest to this.

School teachers are all too busy with their admin work and CCAs or handling disciplinary issues from students with bad attitude. School leaders solution is to quietly nudge parents to find private tuition. Newspapers strategically interview students who are good and can cope on their own, ignoring the vast majority of students who either get tuition or are doing so badly that they need tuition.

My husband and I work long hours in different schools, but the rotten culture in both schools are the same. School leaders focus more on non-teaching aspects to drive their own promotions and performance bonus, while those who can teach well and want to focus on teaching well continue to be penalised and placed at the bottom of the ranking.

Our younger son is of average ability in secondary three. He failed Additional Math in his midyear exams. So did his elder brother. It turned out that 3/4 of their cohort failed it too at the midyear exam. We also are teachers. We don't want to blame their teachers because we know how busy we all are. We are stretched in all directions, and teaching well is not a key priority for career success even though touted so. We sent our son for tuition, and we are shocked to find that many students from the top independent schools and band-one schools also need tuition for their Math. I talked to some of them and their parents at the tuition class. They said that if they didn't have tuition, they probably would have failed or done a lot worse for their midyear exams.

That seems to be the state of our education system. Even as an exam-crazy system, our system is not able to function well on its own without parents pumping in external money in the form of tuition. Even groups like Mendaki and Sinda also offer free tuition to the students under their care. Why would they do so, if the education system was sufficient enough?​


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sbfuncle

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In my world, we doesn't even need school teachers. If there is a need for one, this person just need to provide us proper notes. That's it. Why do we need another person to explain or read out things to you? Don't you have a mind to figure it out yourselves?
I swear to god I didn't needed any lecturers from the day I realised this later part of my academic life , and I have never failed in any subjects during exams, only that some subjects I wasn't so keen to do in depth figuring and didn't performed well enough only, and ace with others.
I have never attended lecturers in my final academic time after I realised this. Yes 0 lecture attended I swear. Tutorials is no choice as attendance are taken but I did not even open my ears in class.
What had been described by this loser teacher just pointed out my points exactly.
That is to say.. Bau even without him or her.
 

k1976

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problem is schools teach children to outsmart each other......nowadays never teach ethics to make them do the right things in life, always about money money money
FUCK PAP
Oir education system did not teach

1. Critical Thinking
2. Stress mamagement
3. Human interaction on personal, social, enterpise level

SG system focus equipped working skill for simple job with hive mind set
 

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k1976

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WE never go into details on how these campaign bring benefits...in fact, do u feel the benefits at all?
 

JurongEast

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I know several locally born tamils Singaporeans who gave up their singaporean IC, migrated to India and came back to Singapore as Singapore PR.
They managed to get better pay
 

joemartini

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Knn..
Singkie education standard is fuck.
They can't teach and expect the parents to send kids for Pte tuition so that kids can cope.
its fucking fucktup syllabus.
fucktup education system.



remember that magical question..???
Who wants to be a millionaire....little miss muffet question.

Little miss muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her_______

A) Nasi lemak
B) Char kway teow
C) Roti Prata

D) curds and whey



mid 1990s.
these are the fucktup subjects i study in sec sch.

English
Chinese 2nd lang
Maths E
Science (Phy/Chem)
Geography
History
Design and technology - become a chee bye carpenter??
Home econs (for girls)
English literature - for fuck??? read story book and take exams based on the story book.
Religious knowledge - Buddhist studies in english - learn to burn kim chua for PAP and their voters?
Art - how many are now Picasso artists today?? waste tonnes of money buy the bloody phua chee bye drawing block and poster colors and crayons.

and O level grades for ART, Religious knowledge, Literature cannot be used to apply for admission into tertiary institutions...ITE, poly, JC.
 
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k1976

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I know several locally born tamils Singaporeans who gave up their singaporean IC, migrated to India and came back to Singapore as Singapore PR.
They managed to get better pay
I have seen Cina gave up SG passport ans get Aussie passport, then cum back to work as a expat in SG, live in Mummy house
 

k1976

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its fucking fucktup syllabus.
fucktup education system.



remember that magical question..???
Who wants to be a millionaire....little miss muffet question.

Little miss muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her_______

A) Nasi lemak
B) Char kway teow
C) Roti Prata

D) curds and whey



mid 1990s.
these are the fucktup subjects i study in sec sch.

English
Chinese 2nd lang
Maths E
Science (Phy/Chem)
Geography
History
Design and technology - become a chee bye carpenter??
Home econs (for girls)
English literature - for fuck??? read story book and take exams based on the story book.
Religious knowledge - Buddhist studies in english - learn to burn kim chua for PAP and their voters?
Art - how many are now Picasso artists today?? waste tonnes of money buy the bloody phua chee bye drawing block and poster colors and crayons.

and O level grades for ART, Religious knowledge, Literature cannot be used to apply for admission into tertiary institutions...ITE, poly, JC.
E) AMDK Lup Cheong :smile:
 

True Believer

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In my world, we doesn't even need school teachers. If there is a need for one, this person just need to provide us proper notes. That's it. Why do we need another person to explain or read out things to you? Don't you have a mind to figure it out yourselves?
I swear to god I didn't needed any lecturers from the day I realised this later part of my academic life , and I have never failed in any subjects during exams, only that some subjects I wasn't so keen to do in depth figuring and didn't performed well enough only, and ace with others.
I have never attended lecturers in my final academic time after I realised this. Yes 0 lecture attended I swear. Tutorials is no choice as attendance are taken but I did not even open my ears in class.
Is that why your command of written English is so poor?
 

k1976

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its fucking fucktup syllabus.
fucktup education system.



remember that magical question..???
Who wants to be a millionaire....little miss muffet question.

Little miss muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her_______

A) Nasi lemak
B) Char kway teow
C) Roti Prata

D) curds and whey



mid 1990s.
these are the fucktup subjects i study in sec sch.

English
Chinese 2nd lang
Maths E
Science (Phy/Chem)
Geography
History
Design and technology - become a chee bye carpenter??
Home econs (for girls)
English literature - for fuck??? read story book and take exams based on the story book.
Religious knowledge - Buddhist studies in english - learn to burn kim chua for PAP and their voters?
Art - how many are now Picasso artists today?? waste tonnes of money buy the bloody phua chee bye drawing block and poster colors and crayons.

and O level grades for ART, Religious knowledge, Literature cannot be used to apply for admission into tertiary institutions...ITE, poly, JC.
Ish just to keep u at school...
 

sbfuncle

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Is that why your command of written English is so poor?
I have said I only put in depth studies on subjects of interest to me.
And I passed gce oar level English despite just relying on myself. This is good enough to proof we doesn't need teachers
I believe others wihh keen interest in English can do the same without any teachers.
If they aren't, keen is useless having teachers too. Even god can't help them too.
The education systems is just a big con job.
 

k1976

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In my world, we doesn't even need school teachers. If there is a need for one, this person just need to provide us proper notes. That's it. Why do we need another person to explain or read out things to you? Don't you have a mind to figure it out yourselves?
I swear to god I didn't needed any lecturers from the day I realised this later part of my academic life , and I have never failed in any subjects during exams, only that some subjects I wasn't so keen to do in depth figuring and didn't performed well enough only, and ace with others.
I have never attended lecturers in my final academic time after I realised this. Yes 0 lecture attended I swear. Tutorials is no choice as attendance are taken but I did not even open my ears in class.
Moi is same same :smile:
 

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I have said I only put in depth studies on subjects of interest to me.
And I passed gce oar level English despite just relying on myself. This is good enough to proof we doesn't need teachers
I believe others wihh keen interest in English can do the same without any teachers.
Good for you! Different strokes for different folks.
 
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