MM LEE: pupils from elite and normal primary schools are tested fairer

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MM LEE: pupils from elite and normal primary schools are tested fairly

how can PSLE be level playing field when the pupils are taught differently in different schools with different techniques and different equipment?

PSLE levels playing field: MM Lee
By Rachel Lin

MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has acknowledged that admission to primary school is not meritocratic, since a child's background plays a role in it.

'That's inevitable in any society,' he said after a visit to Raffles Girls' Primary School (RGPS) yesterday afternoon, where he disclosed that he had visited Punggol Primary the previous day.

'At the primary stage, the choice is not made in a uniform way. You have a brother there or sister there, your father or mother is an alumnus, and so on.

'So it's not meritocratic; it's based on the social class of your parents, whether they went into better schools.'

Still, Mr Lee argued that the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) levels the playing field, allowing bright pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to attend good schools.

'The important thing is that, at Primary 6, there should be a sorting out. And those who missed going to the good schools should get into better secondary schools.'

 

[vamjok]

i know of someone scoring 280 in psle having issue with A levels. big deal about psle lol

 

[ChaoPappyPoodle]

He looks really bad. They even had to put him on a chair during his visit. His legs are truly giving way and his speech is very slurred. The old man is going down really fast this past six months.

 

[myfoot123]

PSLE, A level, Diploma and Degree? No matter how much you spend and tremendous effort to study, you are nothing more than foreigners waiting in hunger at your job in society. In order to make our qualification valuable to our society and make it marketable to employers, PAP must be voted out. Otherwise, even if you study hard, you are just a replaceable item in the eyes of PAP. Our future generatons shoud be protected and not attacked by PAP policies.

 

[shelltox]

you only have yourself to blame if you loose out to the foreigners because you are not hungry enough.

 

[SneeringTree]

Was MM Lee not informed of this thing call discretionary secondary school admission? Is that also a part of his delusional level playing field?

 

[Ramseth]

Was MM Lee not informed of this thing call discretionary secondary school admission? Is that also a part of his delusional level playing field?

Admission priority points can be scored by donating and volunteering. Meritocracy based on PSLE?

 

[Dreamer1]

Re: MM LEE: pupils from elite and normal primary schools are tested fairly

Now that the end is near,MM Lky should start review and make honest statements,he does have plenty of wisdom if he cuts off his life long bullshit(to get votes)

This is a fair statement and I have no issue with it.

Dear MM,since this is yr last lag,pl make more such fair staements instead of "yr sisters,mothers,will all become maids in third world countries."type.

You may even be able to correct the obvious excesses of yr PAP!
and that would be helpful to yr PAP(to get votes),and us yr hard working subjects since 1959.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Re: MM LEE: pupils from elite and normal primary schools are tested fairly

how can PSLE be level playing field when the pupils are taught differently in different schools with different techniques and different equipment?

PSLE levels playing field: MM Lee
By Rachel Lin

MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has acknowledged that admission to primary school is not meritocratic, since a child's background plays a role in it.

'That's inevitable in any society,' he said after a visit to Raffles Girls' Primary School (RGPS) yesterday afternoon, where he disclosed that he had visited Punggol Primary the previous day.

'At the primary stage, the choice is not made in a uniform way. You have a brother there or sister there, your father or mother is an alumnus, and so on.

'So it's not meritocratic; it's based on the social class of your parents, whether they went into better schools.'

If a child's background, meaning brother or sister there, father or mother alumnus, I suppose that is acceptable. What is not acceptable is the other "child's background' that paves the way to enter the better primary schools. For instance, political connections. Or through $ donations. How many of these "privileged" kids are at Nanyang Pri? Lots of them.

 

[kingrant]

What he said has beeen happening to natives since the place was rescued from its fishing village fate. Why then is he only mentioning it now?

Are the FTs complaining because they are not alumni, got no flexibility to move nearer, only wise up lately?

We are so pathetic that all these years we have to adapt whereas the moment these FTs complain, Old Man finds it necessary to come out into the public to explain and apologise?

 

[Dreamer1]

What he said has beeen happening to natives since the place was rescued from its fishing village fate. Why then is he only mentioning it now?

Are the FTs complaining because they are not alumni, got no flexibility to move nearer, only wise up lately?

We are so pathetic that all these years we have to adapt whereas the moment these FTs complain, Old Man finds it necessary to come out into the public to explain and apologise?

Good point,I forget about that one.

But still I wish he will make honest statements during his twilight years

 

[kingrant]

Don't be surprised if they already have tweaked or plans to tweak the scheme to allow these FTs to get their children into the special schools with greater ease now that he's gone public. Must be the Ah Nehs who are belly good at complaining.

Good point,I forget about that one.

But still I wish he will make honest statements during his twilight years

 

[Dreamer1]

Don't be surprised if they already have tweaked or plans to tweak the scheme to allow these FTs to get their children into the special schools with greater ease now that he's gone public. Must be the Ah Nehs who are belly good at complaining.

That I believe,it must be so.

But still my hope in on MM LKY,the impossible always happens,specially to such an intelligent & complex man like MM LKY.