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11-01-2015, 10:10 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
As a parent, do you and your children enjoy the relentless pressure to attend the expensive and exhaustive enrichment and CCA classes from kindergarten to PSLE to the 'O' or the 'A' levels, just to keep up with the MOE engineered education system and then ultimately having to fight with foreigners to secure a place in your own country’s university, a university that you helped to build, failing which, you will have to send your children overseas?
In any cohort year, less than 5% will be invited to the realm of elite exclusivity and entitlement, a divine class above all. On the surface, the meritocracy system is well defined, and therefore the 5% is deservedly entitled. In reality however, nothing is further from the truth because the 5% selection has been pre decided based on connections to the ruling elite or super rich, and then perhaps a few ‘commoners’ are randomly picked to join this exclusive group to demonstrate the so-called ‘meritocracy of the system’.
Side note : Notice the intricate web of fathers, mothers, uncles, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, in laws, cousins, nephews, nieces who are directly or indirectly connected into the government apparatus in privileged positions earning huge salaries funded by taxpayers.
Assuming you are the left over 95% and have the means to support your child’s undergraduate studies. On your child’s graduation, he/she will have to face a highly prejudiced system that works against Singaporeans, and compete for jobs with hundreds of thousands of cheap foreigners with credentials from unknown and unheard of universities.
Even then, if your children are fortunate enough to secure a job, their salaries will be depressed against the benchmark of third world country standards, and further have their career aspirations limited and stagnated by the diabolical and perverted elitist doctrine of GDP growth through citizenry marginalization.
More at Our children's future-a reality check (http://www.domainofexperts.com/2015/01/our-childrens-future-reality-check.html)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?197703-Our-children-s-future-a-reality-check&goto=newpost).
As a parent, do you and your children enjoy the relentless pressure to attend the expensive and exhaustive enrichment and CCA classes from kindergarten to PSLE to the 'O' or the 'A' levels, just to keep up with the MOE engineered education system and then ultimately having to fight with foreigners to secure a place in your own country’s university, a university that you helped to build, failing which, you will have to send your children overseas?
In any cohort year, less than 5% will be invited to the realm of elite exclusivity and entitlement, a divine class above all. On the surface, the meritocracy system is well defined, and therefore the 5% is deservedly entitled. In reality however, nothing is further from the truth because the 5% selection has been pre decided based on connections to the ruling elite or super rich, and then perhaps a few ‘commoners’ are randomly picked to join this exclusive group to demonstrate the so-called ‘meritocracy of the system’.
Side note : Notice the intricate web of fathers, mothers, uncles, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, in laws, cousins, nephews, nieces who are directly or indirectly connected into the government apparatus in privileged positions earning huge salaries funded by taxpayers.
Assuming you are the left over 95% and have the means to support your child’s undergraduate studies. On your child’s graduation, he/she will have to face a highly prejudiced system that works against Singaporeans, and compete for jobs with hundreds of thousands of cheap foreigners with credentials from unknown and unheard of universities.
Even then, if your children are fortunate enough to secure a job, their salaries will be depressed against the benchmark of third world country standards, and further have their career aspirations limited and stagnated by the diabolical and perverted elitist doctrine of GDP growth through citizenry marginalization.
More at Our children's future-a reality check (http://www.domainofexperts.com/2015/01/our-childrens-future-reality-check.html)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?197703-Our-children-s-future-a-reality-check&goto=newpost).