Give citizens priority in Primary 1 registration

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caroline3sg:

I don't agree with above. Many PRs jump queue by joining 2B. Someone already mentioned, PR wife can do PV while citizen mum has to jugle work, home, kids etc. 2B should omit PRs coz many citizens are from 2C.

because they are talents and their wives do not need to work.

[virus]

hello everyone,

I am new to this website & a PR at that.
this discussion is quite interesting & a lot of bashing of PR's all around.

I would like to put up few points inthe defence of the PR's

1. in not all cases it is true that wife will not be working, & as some have said that if both are working then grand parents will be here to take care of the kids. It is too generalised a statement & may not be true for more than 80% of times.

2. A new PR doesnt have a family Support or the contacts which a citizen has as he has been here all his life. also Most of the citizens will be having there parents around to take care of the grandchildren, but may be less than 5% of PR's have family support here. so if a PR does PV he/she is also juggling a lot of things together & is at a disadvantage of lack of social support structures. so I think it all boils down to what choice you are making & what do you prefer more career or children.!!

3. when a PR is putting his child in a local school most ,likely he wants to settle here & if he has to settle here his progeny will have to go for NS. Agreed i have not done NS but my child will be doing, so he should be eligible for equal rights.

4. also most of the citizens here would have already tried for places in phase 1 when children of alumni are given places without balloting. PR's dont have that option. so definitely citizens have more rights than PR's

5 some people dont take up citizenship coz of emotional issues, i know a few people who have been in singapore for more than 20 years, & have no plans to go back but dont want to take up citizenship as it is the only thing which reminds them of the motherland. So they are not exploiting singapore in any way!!!!

I hope it brings some sanity & calrifies a few issues.

Thanks

[Namie]

I am just going to comment on one point which may not be totally true.


"4. also most of the citizens here would have already tried for places in phase 1 when children of alumni are given places without balloting. PR’s dont have that option. so definitely citizens have more rights than PR’s "

Being an alumni doesn’t necessary mean being a citizen. I have fellow colleagues who are PR for a very long time. Their children are PR as well and had studied in Singapore schools. Being PR for so long, their children are already in their 20s and some are of marriageable age. That means, once they have children, they will be eligible for Phase 2A.

[marudine]

Althought we understand that by giving priority to citizen, we may be losing foreign talent.


However, this system may also work in a reverve manner. Not giving priority to citizen, we may lose local talent (e.g. migration) … perhaps.

[jujuboys]

Not sure if this has been mentioned in KSP forum?


From 2010, Singapore Citizens (SCs) will be given an additional ballot slip (i.e. two chances instead of one), while Permanent Residents (PRs) will retain one ballot slip whenever balloting is conducted by any school during the P1 Registration Exercise. SCs will therefore have a higher chance of securing a place for their child in a school of choice when there is balloting.

Giving Singaporeans two chances during balloting will retain the underlying principles of our existing P1 Registration Framework and provide for diversity in our schools, while simultaneously according Singaporean citizens an additional privilege.

Source: http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2009/12/measures-to-further-differenti.php

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jujuboys:

Not sure if this has been mentioned in KSP forum?

There is a http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7678 specially for this topic.

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jujuboys:

Not sure if this has been mentioned in KSP forum?


From 2010, Singapore Citizens (SCs) will be given an additional ballot slip (i.e. two chances instead of one), while Permanent Residents (PRs) will retain one ballot slip whenever balloting is conducted by any school during the P1 Registration Exercise. SCs will therefore have a higher chance of securing a place for their child in a school of choice when there is balloting.

During balloting,what if the SCs so lucky that he/she balloted two times. :congrats: :cheeky: . How the school going to do then? Oops! :gloomy: Or considers one chance gone for others .......