PAP kindergartens charge parents for being late

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http://yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/4550-pap-kindergartens-charge-parents-for-being-late

PAP kindergartens charge parents for being late
Wednesday, 02 February 2011
Singapore Democrats

Parents who are late to pick up their children - even by five minutes - are fined by PAP kindergartens. In a letter to parents, the PAP Community Foundation (PCF) told mums and dads that they will face a penalty charge if they are late in 'fetching' their children (see letter below).

There's even a fine chart stating the rates: late by 5 minutes, pay $2. The fine increases by $2 for every subsequent 5 minutes. That's even higher that private car-parks (not to mention the ERP).


The SDP also understands that children are disallowed into the classroom because their parents cannot pay the school fees. In fact some of them are suspended when parents fail to pay the fees after reminders are sent.

This raises some interesting questions:

• Should the PCF be allowed to levy fines on parents for being late? If they are, what should the fines be? Is the present rate of $2 per 5 minutes fair?
  
• Should pre-schoolers be suspended from school when their parents don't pay their fees on time? Note that many of these families come from the lower-income group and cannot aford to send their children to private kindergartens.
  
• More generally, should the PAP, a political party, continue to have a monopoly on "low cost" (as stated in the PCF website) kindergartens? Or should there be kindergartens supported by the state through the Ministry of Education?

 

[Watchman]

Private enterprise should start challenging the MOE system .

Start developing their educational pathways .
And have industries support their students .

From cradle to retirement !

We need to devise alternatives to skip the PAP franchise .

 

[Batok Seri]

Somebody there finally got round to reading "Freakonomics".

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/books/chapters/0515-1st-levitt.html

 

[suicidalpap]

PAP is all about money, money and money.

 

[Devil Within]

Why put kids into kindergarden in the first place? Formal schooling starts with Primary.

 

[KNNBCCB]

 

[cooleo]

>>There's even a fine chart stating the rates: late by 5 minutes, pay $2. The fine increases by $2 for every subsequent 5 minutes. That's even higher that private car-parks (not to mention the ERP).<<

$2 for 5 mins?! This is almost like staying in a hotel.

 

[Watchman]

 

[BusNo64]

one eye MIW doggie

 

[silverfox@]

If I go to this kindergarten, I will ask the Principal, what if the teacher is late, will there be a refund of school fees?

You collect penalty fee, then I expect the same from the management.

 

[SneeringTree]

"fetching"??? A dog fetches a bone, parents pick their child up.

 

[SneeringTree]

If I go to this kindergarten, I will ask the Principal, what if the teacher is late, will there be a refund of school fees?

You collect penalty fee, then I expect the same from the management.

The principal is just following PAP logic to the T.

 

[Maximilian Chua-Heng]

The principal is just following PAP logic to the T.

Wrong. The principal understands sinkies' behaviour to the T.

 

[Yoshitei]

Their English is embarrassingly horrendous!

This reflects the poor language skills of teachers in the system and explains the quality of youngsters these days!

 

[blackmore]

Their English is embarrassingly horrendous!

This reflects the poor language skills of teachers in the system and explains the quality of youngsters these days!

How many people or educators bothered on the quality of English compare to the older generations.

What's worst the letter could have been written and vetted by someone and signed by the minah speaks volume of the low standards they stand for. In other words they simply don't care .

The whole letter when read is simpling in tatters. Same mode as a PRC writes English by translating from Chinese to English.

 

[sadfcuk]

Wow, surely you must need a shit load of parents who abuse the kindergarten teachers as babysitters to get that kind of letter being sent out...

Like they said, there's no smoke without fire.

 

[hotbot]

this notice is pasted outside the kindergarten, so dun play play...

Wow, surely you must need a shit load of parents who abuse the kindergarten teachers as babysitters to get that kind of letter being sent out...

Like they said, there's no smoke without fire.

 

[johnny333]

Another fine idea from the PAP

 

[borom]

I have no sympathy for anyone who send their children to the PAP.

More so now when you get lots of Pinoys ,Indians(from India) and PRC's-imagine the kind of values they will pick up.

 

[LonewolfAlfa]

private schools are charging $5 for being late every 5 minutes...