Heng Swee Swee finally cull Sacred Cow of Evil School Ranking by Lee & Teo
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Peasantpore: The Propoganda Education Ministry has finally decisively culled the secondary school banding system, as part of efforts to ensure that "every peasant school can be a good peasant school but must still kowtow Ruler Loong".
The banding system, which was introduced in 2004, categorises secondary schools into nine bands. Imperial China has a similar ranking system for its officials but that does not stop them from kowtowing to the Ang Mohs during the 19th century.
The swines responsible for the earlier ranking system are Lee Yock Suan (fired for inept performance) and Duke of Punggol Teo CH (infamous for adapting Mindef ranking for MoE). Despite screwing up the education system for a decade, Lee Yock Suan enjoyed pensions after his retirement and Duke of Punggol was made a high ranking noble in Peasantpore. Successive education minions fared no better, despite his rough speech scolding peasants, Bargain Hen became a turtle and maintained status quo. Tarman threw money to solve the problem but ended up repealing estate duty to get an 'Out' pass. The mess was inherited by Heng Swee Swee who knew the rot started around 1990s (Lee Yock Suan and Duke Teo eras).
Nobody remembers the robust debate between Chiam ST and Duke Teo over the simple concept of compulsory schooling.
Absolute ranking is usually use to grade farm animals before slaughtering them. It is also a nice tool used by Mindef to appraise their military paper tiger officers because the system is open to abuse e.g. patronage. Other baboons who love absolute ranking systems are the former Soviet Union, Commie PRC.
Band one consists of top schools, with a cut-off point of below 11 for the average aggregate grades in the GCE O' Level examination.
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Banding is another version of absolute ranking using academic results as the most important yardstick.
By using such a narrow yardstick, teachers and principals in top schools who take in academically able peasant children are usually proclaim as winners.
As a result, 'losers' are assigned to neighbourhood schools and treated as pariahs because their students do badly in exams regardless of their hardwork and efforts.
With such a silly ranking system, at least 70% of students are written off as 'waste products' and are relegated to as blue collar losers. Demoralised students usually ended up as indolent serfs who are lambasted as losers by employers and occassional high ranking lackeys.
Principals often game the banding system by asking teachers to 'force' students to drop arty farty subjects or reduce the number of subjects to secure better academic scores and boost their KPIs.
The Ministry of Education will also reduce the number of wayang awards it gives out to peasant schools because it caused utter confusion on the ground for peasant parents. It caused many school feudal lords to waste resources to game the system and advance their careers by snarling the awards and neglecting better education for lesser peasant children.
Instead, it will focus on educators core business....recognising best practices in niche areas, such as teaching and learning, as well as students' all-round development.
Education Supremo Heng Swee Swee announced the changes at the ministry's annual Work Plan Seminar on Wednesday.
Other minions will be hardpressed to match Swee Swee's cullings of stupid sacred cows.
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