Temasek JC decided not to present Yee Jenn Jong with award after he lost in GE2011

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SINGAPORE — In 2012, one year after Workers' Party (WP) member Yee Jenn Jong ran in his first General Election (GE) and narrowly lost, he was told by his alma mater Temasek Junior College that the school could not present to him the Distinguished Alumnus Award on its College Day as it had originally planned.

He was told by a teacher that someone thought it would be awkward for guest-of-honour Heng Swee Keat, who also ran for the first time in GE2011 and was elected and then appointed as Education Minister, to present an award to a member of an opposition party.

Mr Yee received his award only a year later during the College Day when there were no Cabinet ministers around for the ceremony.

Mr Yee, 55, recounted this incident in his book, Journey in Blue: A Peek into the Workers' Party of Singapore and said such self-censorship was a result of a lack of political education and awareness in Singapore.

“Is there anything wrong with Heng Swee Keat giving me an award? Why do people feel there’s something wrong about it?” questioned Mr Yee during an hour-long interview with TODAY on Tuesday (Dec 22).

Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...ill-spark-more-political-discussion-singapore

 

[nayr69sg]

Yes indeed everyone should be cordial and polite. Make love not war.

Work together. Unity not divisions.

Look at positives not negatives.

 

[congo9]

SINGAPORE — In 2012, one year after Workers' Party (WP) member Yee Jenn Jong ran in his first General Election (GE) and narrowly lost, he was told by his alma mater Temasek Junior College that the school could not present to him the Distinguished Alumnus Award on its College Day as it had originally planned.

He was told by a teacher that someone thought it would be awkward for guest-of-honour Heng Swee Keat, who also ran for the first time in GE2011 and was elected and then appointed as Education Minister, to present an award to a member of an opposition party.

Mr Yee received his award only a year later during the College Day when there were no Cabinet ministers around for the ceremony.

Mr Yee, 55, recounted this incident in his book, Journey in Blue: A Peek into the Workers' Party of Singapore and said such self-censorship was a result of a lack of political education and awareness in Singapore.

“Is there anything wrong with Heng Swee Keat giving me an award? Why do people feel there’s something wrong about it?” questioned Mr Yee during an hour-long interview with TODAY on Tuesday (Dec 22).

Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...ill-spark-more-political-discussion-singapore

I think it is all right to give an award to Opposition.from Education Minister?

Is PAP so petty? Or the principle must know which side of bread to Butter?

 

[knowwhatyouwantinlife]

Sg mindset, nothing new...ventilate about an incident about my K1 daughter...months back had a meet the parents session with the teachers...of course we know at this level the comment would be she is good in class excel in certain subjects etc...than came her closed door graduation event...out of her class of 17 she was not chosen to be 1 of the 4 narrators or comperes for the event...obviously the mum was upset becos we know she is very helpful among the peers (we don't really care about what subjects she excel in at this level)...and ever since she was not selected she began staying back with a few boys who know how to butter her saying they like her...to me what the school could have done is provide specific feedback for example have a list of 50 chinese words and say she can read 40 while the average is 42...also for the role of the narrator all 17 of the kids can be assigned bit parts since its their graduation before p1...so there u have it even at the kindergarten level sgreans screw sgreans up...so thats also the reason why those that can afford will either migrate or send their kids to boarding schools to get the advantage of not meeting toxic ppl and completing their formal education faster

 

[congo9]

No worries, award can wait.
Wait till YJY becomes a MP, the school and the principle will be busy inviting him back

 

[Hypocrite-The]

WP’s Yee Jenn Jong supports deregulation, says excessive competitions from GLCs affect SMEs’ growth - The Online Citizen Asia

The excessive competitions from government-linked companies (GLCs) are affecting the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, said the Workers’ Party (WP) politician Yee Jenn Jong, adding that private enterprises could be “better deregulated”.
Mr Yee was among the panellists in the webinar titled, “The Future and Challenges to the Singapore Economy”, organised by the Future of Singapore (FOSG) via Zoom on 17 Apr.
The webinar touched on the fractured global economy with Singapore caught between the US and China blocs, disruptive technological revolutions to jobs and global supply chains in artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things, 3D printing as well as future pandemics.
Mr Yee, who is also an entrepreneur, supports the idea of deregulation, saying that the “excessive competitions” from GLCs and cooperatives had made it difficult for private enterprises to grow.
“In my perspective, there’s also sometimes a balance. In fact, in a large number of the industry is probably better deregulated. It’s better to, say a thousand flowers bloom and see which one grows up, which one can become a winner like Sea or Grab, to become a big unicorn,” he said.
Mr Yee pointed out that the GLCs have enough finances, the ability to raise funds and are provided with the government’s support, compared to the SMEs.
“If we could look at, for example going to a regional country with a G2G [government-to-government] negotiation coming to the whole ecosystem, but always bear in mind how to bring out the next level of Singapore companies so that they can become our next growth in future,” he added.
Citing Progress Singapore Party’s (PSP) NCMP Leong Mun Wai’s points in the webinar, who noted that the small companies in Japan survived while the big companies have fallen out, Mr Yee emphasised growth linkages between the GLCs and SMEs.
“Mun Wai talked about the Japanese companies. The big ones have died, but then the smaller ones that were suppliers to them have actually grown up and that’s an interesting point.
“Our GLCs, they’re big now, but if they can bring up our local companies to go with them, say in a green economy, into the region… we could actually create some future winners that we do not even know of today.
“But the important thing is when they go they must have this mindset of the stakeholder of Singapore. Not just the shareholders, but the stakeholders bringing the whole Singapore ecosystem, our best talents, our companies in so that we can grow this together,” he said.
Mr Yee also cited former People’s Action Party (PAP) MP Inderjit Singh’s points, who shared about a research professor in NTU who took an Intellectual Property (IP) license in Singapore to start a prototyping facility to productize his technology.
Instead of starting his prototyping in Singapore, the professor moved to Shangai due to the financial and infrastructure support available in Shanghai.
Mr Yee went on to share his own experience in the research and development (R&D) sector, saying that he used to be a university’s researcher.
“We spent a lot on R&D [research and development], we have very good raw R&D, but how much of it actually goes into commercialization?
“That’s where I feel that Singapore has been lacking behind Taiwan, South Korea, Germany and Switzerland, where they have such a strong manufacturing culture,” he noted.
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Theindependent
'With limited places in desired schools, there will still be pressure'

Photo: Facebook/ Yee Jenn Jong 余振忠
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Singapore — Workers’ Party member Yee Jenn Jong feels that the new revamped PSLE scoring system will not reduce anxiety over this high-stakes examination.

“Will it change the anxiety over this deemed high-stake examinations? My short answer is, NO.”
My take on the new…

As long as parents believe some schools are more desirable than others, and some academic streams better for their children, there will be anxiety, he points out, noting the existence of “top schools” in an article he wrote regarding the new system.
“With limited places in the desired schools, there will still be pressure at PSLE, at the tender age of 12,” he adds.
“I thought the worst thing that happened was when we started to rank and brand schools. It was first started in 1992, published by our national newspaper Straits Times. The exercise went on for two decades, with tinkering of the criteria along the way, but nevertheless, schools were publicly honoured and of course, those left out of the published rankings were deemed not-so-good, to put it mildly, in the perception of the public,” he wrote, noting that many parents still look at cut-off points and reputation of schools.
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Mr Yee feels that the cut-off points “do not say much”. He feels “quite sad” that people do not take into account how schools that take in lower-scoring students “transform and value-add to [those] students”.
A junior college that takes in “5-6 pointers” will obviously have to ensure that the vast majority, if not all, of its students will make it to “good’” universities. However, the JCs that take in average-scoring O-level students but enable many of them to do well for university admissions should be lauded more, he says.
Mr Yee, who was a Non-Constituency MP in the 12th Parliament (October 10, 2011 – August 25, 2015), says: “I had pushed many times in Parliament (2015, 2014, 2013, 2012) and in the WP 2015 manifesto for through-train primary to secondary pilot schools. I would have gladly sent my children to such schools even if there was no option for them to enter a top secondary school through this path.”
A through-train school is a school where primary school pupils may proceed directly to the linked secondary school without going through a central allocation process. Hong Kong currently has a few such schools, including the Diocesan Girls’ School, Renaissance College, and Ying Wa College.)
About the new PSLE scoring system, he says, “This change alone will not reduce any anxiety, maybe even add more confusion in the initial years until people understand what it will actually take to get where.
“Change needs to come from having a different mindset, and changes to other policies in schools and in society. All the best for those taking PSLE this year,” he writes, concluding his Facebook post.
Denise Teh is an intern at The Independent SG. /TISGFollow us on Social Media

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