Lee Hsien Yang's kids study at an international school
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siao, i prefer neighbourhood schoolOriginally posted by men_@_arms:Come on lets admit it, we are all just pissed off because we could not have gone to an international school right? Well, i am pissed off because i am not going to an international school NOW, but i have done before. Regardless, i think you guys are pissed cos yall never did
That's why this thread is b=i-tching about it. Come on admit it guys.
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haha, who ever said anything abt int'l schools being top schools?Originally posted by oldbreadstinks:siao, i prefer neighbourhood school life's more fun then studying in a top school
being intl does NOT mean being top . . . just mean they follow a different curriculum thats all... -
CX,
i went to an international school and consider myself no brat. perhaps international school kids are somewhat 'different' by virtue of their segregation from your heartlander kid, but that doesn't automatically make one atas what!
re: int. sch admission: i believe the MOE 'threshold' is 1 non-Singaporean parent in normal cases.. it's true that local kids don't have the freedom to choose but hey, who can afford their minds being polluted by whatever political freedom civil rights whatever ____ they teach in those chao ang moh schools?
s.Originally posted by CX:
why do I want to go to an int'nl school?
to hang out with rich, snooty expat brats?
to pay more money than my family can afford for my education?
if, and i say IF, moe does have explicit guidelines that says locals CANNOT enter an international school and this is a blatant bending of that rule, then pple will have just cause to be pissed even if they never intended to send their kids to one...
BECAUSE rules and regulations are being bent for an influential figure.
but if its just a matter of being able to pay the fees, then i say they can knock themselves out... how rich pple spend their money is none of out business.
its odd because i have a friend who recently came back to Sg after nearly 1/2 a decade in shanghai... his kids were born in china... and he came back so that his kids can go to school [b]here ... cos he feels that the international schools there do not offer a sufficiently rigourous education.[/b] -
Yeah. True. I believe people should be with their own kind, their own system and their own beliefs. I respect that.
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One of my former colleagues in Singapore sent her child to an international school. Her husband has a HK passport. I think virtually all international schools around the world has this rule with the local government. Over at SSIS, we do have Chinese nationals studying here - their mother has a foreign passport.
One thing I believe an international school is good with is the broader outlook, the contacts you gain and also the more relaxed atmosphere. Now, you must also realise that international schools have different hours - they end at about 3-4pm in the afternoon. This affords more time to finish their assignments, instead of doing them at home.
Now if only I can afford to send my child to a school that asks for USD8000 a year (plus USD1000 for school bus)...maybe once I made principal?
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Okay guys i think lets put it in perspective with some of the following Qns:
Mr Lee Hsian Yang is he a member of the Govt?
If his kid as stated by someone so physically unable to cope with a local school condition?
What cased the topic in the first place?
firstly i do not know if Mr Lee Hsien Yang is indeed a member of parliament. the last i check on his brother Loong is involvd in politics.
Why then is he put under the spotlight?
Cause well there are those who have mentioned that in doing so, it shows that the member of the Lee family doesnt have faith in the local education system.
I would like to throw another point. I paraphrase Raj Vasil's "Parties and Politics" chapter 4.
" Then PM Lee Kuan yew questioned JBJ's loyalty to the country as both JBJ and his Aide's children were in International schools"
But sidenote that was sometime ago. i think 20 yrs ago. Even then, is this considered hyprocrisy?
Surprisingly, Mr Lee Hsien Loong's son, EE peng, while an Albino with sight problems, was in normal schools i.e. Zhong hua Sec, NYJC.
In conclusion, i can only say that it is individual preference. Though what he has done may contradict what his father had said. But his father had said alot of thing.