Help! Who knows highest MOE official in-charge of Welfare?

[atrecord]

Tania:

Oh! ooioo's 'problem' is she is staying at Bukit Panjang/CCK/Diary Farm which is beyond 2km from RGPS but her dd has been transferred to RGPS.

Her dd's school bus reaches school at around 6.30am.
ooioo thinks that she sch bus shld not arrive at the sch at 6.30am (too early) and deprive her gal of her sleep.

This is ridiculous! why arrive so early? The bus needs to go fetch 2nd round to make more $$ is it?

[buds]

My girls arrive in school at 6:30am everyday as well. While in our instance, we stay 10-15mins from sch… transportation service is a choice that we made and were informed of in advance with regards to their pick-up n drop-off schedule when they were awarded the tender/contract from school. While initially our girls seemed a wee sleep deprived, hubs would insist they sleep earlier everyday, he’d holler them periodically to let them know how much time they have before sleep time. On days with a lil more work from school, have them take short naps to rest n recharge to last the evening till completion of assignments. The school choice is also ours… near or far from home… we gotta work out the kinks on our end as much as posdible. We aren’t prepared to make anither school transfer. This is our girls’ second primary school. Especially in our scenario we have another baby to look after, so it’s more convenient and makes more sense for our girls to reach school n home on time on target via transport service because be it rain or shine we know our girls are already safe in school. Transport operators came into the picture informing us they already have long term contract to pick up workers (send them to work). Drivers need to also adhere to company’s schedule. It’s their rice bowl. Honestly, MOE’s highest official cannot be pondering over every child’s sleep deprivation issues. Unless we can send the children ourselves, we will still continue to let our children take the transport. If still cannot work out trpt issues, shift school nearer to home.

[raynreg]

Or shift home nearer to school, ya :siam:

[buds]

tankee:

ppnqq:

Most such emails will not go straight to the highest authority. Emails are usually screened by their subordinates like secretaries or PA first and at the end of the day, only a minority of the emails will be seen and read by the highest authorities, usually those of utmost importance or urgencies. Imagine if they have to go through and reply every single email themselves, I think they would still be doing this single \"job\" 24/7 and do not have to do any other work already.

Although I do not know why you have to look for the highest authority concerning the student's welfare and bus transport, but I would advise that you speak to the relevant party first and if it still cannot be resolved, you may speak to the school Principal and the Manager in-charge of that transport company.

JMHO.

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[buds]

raynreg:

Or shift home nearer to school, ya :siam:

Definitely another viable option, if $ is no issue. :evil:

[alishong]

that’s what we did, move near the school… since the school is our choice (with higher chinese) and i cannot bear the sight of school bus rushing to drop off the kids and hurry to pick up factory workers.

[limlim]

buds:

Transport operators came into the picture informing us they already have long term contract to pick up workers (send them to work). Drivers need to also adhere to company's schedule. It's their rice bowl.

Ask the school to change operator? or assign another driver w/o such constraints..

Anyway, i already assigned SBStransit as my transport provider.. to save cost.. so no such issue.

[caroline3sg]

Tania:

Oh! ooioo's 'problem' is she is staying at Bukit Panjang/CCK/Diary Farm which is beyond 2km from RGPS but her dd has been transferred to RGPS.

Her dd's school bus reaches school at around 6.30am.
ooioo thinks that she sch bus shld not arrive at the sch at 6.30am (too early) and deprive her gal of her sleep.

I brought up this problem to MOE & Transport operator 8 yrs ago (we stay at CCK and my girl studied in RGPS then). MOE sided bus operators. It was not solved, neither is it now.

[BlueBells]

I fail to understand why should transport be an issue for MOE or the school or the transport operator if it is the parents who made the decision to send the child to a school that is far from home. :scratchhead:

[buds]

School awards tender to transport company based on a contract basis. Duration is termed by the school of course. Unless if there’s safety issue (life/death) or some ill-practice of overcrowding, i don’t think the school steps in. Parents are to specifically liaise with the drivers and their overheads directly. I do recall in our girls’ previous school, we had to sign a form indicating that we understand the transport operator is a third party provider engaged for the year and the school is not to be held accountable for dealings with them. However, when we had some minor adjustment issues with drop off venue cos the children had to rush to cross a busy road in the morning, the school did help come in and mediate for us parents to reach a compromise… out of goodwill; which we truly appreciate. We know that some schools simply tell parents off directly to go settle with the drivers ourselves and that the school is not responsible for the issues pertaining to the 3rd party provider.