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July 23rd, 2010 |
Author: Your Correspondent
On 14 July 2010, I read a tiny article on the New Paper titled, eNo more exams for Primary 1 and 2 students from 2013Œ.
http://www.temasekreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sis8.jpgMOE targets that in 3 years time, P1 and P2 students would no longer have mid and end of year exams. They will apparently be assessed through methods like gshow and tellh and keeping of journals.
If this is so, why should we have kindergarten and P1 and P2? Children should just stay at home and study what they need to then, why waste time and money in school studying when there is no exam to chart their progress?
Does MOE realize the problem could be more than whether we have exams or not?
Is this happening throughout the world, or only in Singapore? And is there another reason for it that we are not being told about?
Could this be happening because there are too many foreign children here now, and they canft cope up with the P1 and P2 syllabus? Are they still behind Singaporean kids and failing all the exams?
If that is what is really happening, the new citizens, PRs and other foreigners who are sending their kids to study in Singapore schools are not going to be happy.
Does our Senior Minister of State for Education, Grace Fu think that this is the right thing to do? To bend our entire education system backwards just to accommodate these new children of foreigners who canft do well in P1 and P2?
It is highly likely that the parents of these kids (especially those in the RCs, CCs and PAP) have been complaining to them about this issue. So this idea has been cooked up, and made to look like the Government cares about stressed out students.
Some new foreigners come in with kids who are aleady 5 years old, and they may have to start with Primary school education straight away. This scheme may be engineered to help them gcatch uph.
Our Singaporean kids have, for better or for worse, been coping with this education system for decades. So when we see such a move happening only now, we canft help but wonder why.
Has it taken the highest paid Government in the world 50 years to figure our that their education system doesnft produce results?
If students are really stressed out by the system, its not having exams thats the problem, its the entire methodology of teaching and learning. Its the rigid, stifling social setting at Singapore schools that should be looked at.
Right now MOE seems to want to treat a mentally ill patient with a few anti-depressants rather than giving any real therapy.
SINGA BALA
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On 14 July 2010, I read a tiny article on the New Paper titled, eNo more exams for Primary 1 and 2 students from 2013Œ.
http://www.temasekreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/sis8.jpgMOE targets that in 3 years time, P1 and P2 students would no longer have mid and end of year exams. They will apparently be assessed through methods like gshow and tellh and keeping of journals.
If this is so, why should we have kindergarten and P1 and P2? Children should just stay at home and study what they need to then, why waste time and money in school studying when there is no exam to chart their progress?
Does MOE realize the problem could be more than whether we have exams or not?
Is this happening throughout the world, or only in Singapore? And is there another reason for it that we are not being told about?
Could this be happening because there are too many foreign children here now, and they canft cope up with the P1 and P2 syllabus? Are they still behind Singaporean kids and failing all the exams?
If that is what is really happening, the new citizens, PRs and other foreigners who are sending their kids to study in Singapore schools are not going to be happy.
Does our Senior Minister of State for Education, Grace Fu think that this is the right thing to do? To bend our entire education system backwards just to accommodate these new children of foreigners who canft do well in P1 and P2?
It is highly likely that the parents of these kids (especially those in the RCs, CCs and PAP) have been complaining to them about this issue. So this idea has been cooked up, and made to look like the Government cares about stressed out students.
Some new foreigners come in with kids who are aleady 5 years old, and they may have to start with Primary school education straight away. This scheme may be engineered to help them gcatch uph.
Our Singaporean kids have, for better or for worse, been coping with this education system for decades. So when we see such a move happening only now, we canft help but wonder why.
Has it taken the highest paid Government in the world 50 years to figure our that their education system doesnft produce results?
If students are really stressed out by the system, its not having exams thats the problem, its the entire methodology of teaching and learning. Its the rigid, stifling social setting at Singapore schools that should be looked at.
Right now MOE seems to want to treat a mentally ill patient with a few anti-depressants rather than giving any real therapy.
SINGA BALA
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