Subject-based banding for good?

[TerrexLee]

On 5 March 2019, Singapore’s Ministry of Education announced that it will scrap streaming in secondary schools in 2024 and replace it with subject-based banding. Singapore Unbound supports the abolition of streaming, which has undermined and stigmatized students by labeling them as Express, Normal (Academic), and Normal (Technical). The belated change to subject-based banding, or tracking as it is called in the USA, is an improvement, but it does not go very far in addressing the inequities in the educational system.


Subject-based banding will, in fact, reinforce the false idea that the current system is based on meritocracy. Even with the change, schools will still be measuring student performance based on different student starting points and unequal access to resources (families, schools, and communities). There is no acknowledgement of prevailing social and economic injustices in society, as piercingly described in the study This Is What Inequality Looks Like by sociologist Teo You Yenn.


There must be a re-examination of the way that primary schools evaluate student potential and achievement. If some students enter Primary One already knowing how to read and write in English, and some students don’t, the latter will find it hard, if not impossible, ever to “catch up.” Since all subjects are taught in English, the handicap is severe. Subject-based banding will only lend a thin veneer of legitimacy to different paths through the educational system.

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[laksaboy]

Not my problem. The shenanigans of the MOE is none of my business.

 

[garlic]

Fair? Equal access? Wake up!

 

[zhihau]

the real sacred cow is the class size- these scholars quote all sorts of teaching pedagogy and learning theories, they refused to acknowledge that the class size in these papers quoted are about 20-25 kids per class.

Then they tell you it's meritocracy at work and these learning theories work when you see that GEP can have no more than 25 students per class, and 35-40 in a normal class.

Teehee...

 

[eatshitndie]

the real sacred cow is the class size- these scholars quote all sorts of teaching pedagogy and learning theories, they refused to acknowledge that the class size in these papers quoted are about 20-25 kids per class.

Then they tell you it's meritocracy at work and these learning theories work when you see that GEP can have no more than 25 students per class, and 35-40 in a normal class.

Teehee...

best class size is one on one with tantric temptress.

 

[zhihau]

best class size is one on one with tantric temptress.

tantric sex is the best!

 

[a_korusawa]

Fair? Equal access? Wake up!

all these are because bloody pinky (shit! day of month) drove his 'elitism' into MOE, and his eunuch Heng also screwed it up during his reign as educational minister.

and to cover their backsides (its very vital to their orgasm), they got Ng and Ong to digest their shits or hid under carpets

so Ng CM blinded whole nation by camouflaging PSLE scores with subject banding, to shut everyone's mouth where PSLE will never be released with actual scores!

pinky was so impressed (just like his style of ruling the country) so he robed him into his 'club memberships'.

whereas Ong were left behind to tackle the actual topic of 'elitism' that has been prominent in the social academic...... and complains from all over the world

so he now widens the gap further by downgrading the biggest population of express classes to join the normal streams to become one happy voice

in short, this so-called SBB or non-streaming basically group both normal and express calibers into invisible class but managed by subjects blinded by bandwidths

this also inevitably pull down or drag those trying join the elitist classes in the SEPs schools (their parents are the loudest)

This means all neighborhood schools teachers are given an even easier life, just to fulfill their students to polytechnic entrance standards only . . . .

and so, polytechnics are able to adjust their entry criteria accordingly to market demands......... what a cahoot style in academic excellence!

This also means only SEPs schools students are capable of going universities via their partnerships JCs only........ there are lower or no guarantee from neighborhood JCs

so Ong has successfully shafted all shits left behind back into a-holes of those academical elitist leeches who have always been infested in MOE for years.

these bunch of sadistic leeches are responsible for generating nonsensical PSLE papers!

now they given more rooms for 'creativeness' to generate the whole national school standards that will replace the traditional 'O' and 'N' levels!

as if this country has not been screwed enuff, so they screw further into such national level standards!



always remember that TV ad when student showed exam paper to her teacher whom failed her with 49/100!

and teacher smoke her that she had excelled in 49/100, and to try harder next time

truth is . . . . your next time will be ....... take your time to try and find if there is any the next time . . . .