MP echoes calls for PSLE to be scrapped

[Fook Seng]

COE?

Certificate of Education?

Very good. Another revenue earning idea.

 

[Kinana]

A sacred cow is one which cannot be slaughtered or is extremely difficult to be slaughtered and need a lot of courage to do so.

NS has been around for 40 odd years. It consumes annually a large part of our annual budget. It denies us of an annual workforce of 40,000 (i.e. 20,000 abled body young men for two years). Individually these NSmen loses 5% of his entire employable years and 5% of his career income which can go towards increasing his retirement savings by 5% of his life career earnings. Yet NS has survived 40+ years. If that is not a sacred cow, what is?

If its so bad, why is it so difficult to slaughter?

 

[Kinana]

no one mentioned affirmative action except for you. and i'm referring to the 20% bottom singaporean students, not just mats, chinks or thambis specifically. please re-think the racism that lurks in your heart.

It means exactly the same thing. Affirmative action based on race and income level.

assuming 40,000 students a year, and botton 20% is 8,000 per year. in 20-30 years time, you're going to have 200-300,000 citizens who are way below par in terms of education. the problem will be more expensive to fix later on. its cheaper to throw good teachers at the problem now, than to deal with the social fall out from 250,000 under-educated citizens.

There will always be a bottom 20% no matter what. Its a mathematical thing. What are you talking abut sir?
Good teachers are in all schools, not just in top schools.

 

[ionzu]

It means exactly the same thing. Affirmative action based on race and income level.


There will always be a bottom 20% no matter what. Its a mathematical thing. What are you talking abut sir?
Good teachers are in all schools, not just in top schools.

then we are already practicing affirmative action through workfare, new singapore shares etc. and what more your CDACs, mendaki and sinda?

i am talking about lifting the quality of the botton 20% instead of letting them languish in today's abysmal state of being. there are more good teachers in top schools than in non-top schools. its about access to the limited resource of "good teachers".

 

[Kinana]

then we are already practicing affirmative action through workfare, new singapore shares etc. and what more your CDACs, mendaki and sinda?

i am talking about lifting the quality of the botton 20% instead of letting them languish in today's abysmal state of being. there are more good teachers in top schools than in non-top schools. its about access to the limited resource of "good teachers".

first of all, it's not true that the best teachers end up in top schools. You obviously are not in touch w the education system here.

Opportunities n resources,are always given to the lower 20%. They have to take advantage rather than waste them.

 

[ionzu]

first of all, it's not true that the best teachers end up in top schools. You obviously are not in touch w the education system here.

Opportunities n resources,are always given to the lower 20%. They have to take advantage rather than waste them.

of course its not true, what i said was: there are more good teachers in top schools than in non-top schools

i said nothing about the BEST teachers being only in top school.

 

[Fook Seng]

If its so bad, why is it so difficult to slaughter?

Because it is the sacred cow.