All About Getting Priority Registration

[zakashi]

Tokidoki:

zakashi:

I am referring to several of my friends who are holding top professional. A child is a SC with only one parent convert to SC. The other remain as PR. This is true. They also received baby bonus! Ha! Ha!

was the SC approved recently? my colleague's submission got approved in 2010, juz in time for P1 registration in 2011. but the new 2011 applications i heard of mostly got rejected when only 1 parent applied.

If this is true that is a good news. If this is not, than all SC have to fight with so called SC but PR.

[kitcat]

even only 1 parent convert with the kids, the kids(boys) will still need to serve NS, so fair lah…

[arielle08]

zakashi:

I am referring to several of my friends who are holding top professional. A child is a SC with only one parent convert to SC. The other remain as PR. This is true. They also received baby bonus! Ha! Ha!

Oh yes, I do have friends like that. One couple is from Myanmar. Another couple from Thailand. But situation exactly the same!
So they are the ones who enjoyed the best of both world. Hubby refuse to convert, wife convert. So hubby PR, wife SC, son also SC.
They got our new flats coz they are entitled to apply just like SC. Was told that now, after 4 yrs, the value doubled.
they got the baby bonus and that tax rebate too. Just like any other sporeans. And yet they get to invest in properties and lands in their own country becoz the hubby is still a citizen of their country.
Smart leh...

Ask if we can invest in his country too, since its so much cheaper than spore. he told me \" Hahahaa foreigners are not welcome to invest, foreigners will need to pay hefty tax and pay a high price. Hahahaa....\"

So such people are the one who benefits from both countries coz our govt give them as much subsidies and priority as our SCs. To our govt, so long as u have 1 SC in your family, u are one of us!!

[arielle08]

zakashi:

I checked with the MOE. They replied me that as long as the child is a Singapore citizen, they will accept it. It is not necessary to have both parent to be SC. I scatched my head.??? We still have to fight with the PR. Most of my friend's spouse is still a PR and one of them is SC. Even with the \"good\" news, we still have to fight with the PRs. Don't forget that they are outnumbered us even one of their spouse is a SC.

Well, the straits times reported that the PR represented 10% of each year primary one's intake. The number seems surprisingly small when we see Foreign talent everywhere. So I guess they are really referring to the real PRs. Coz most of our PRs, they may retain their PR status but convert their wife and kids. So the 10% PR doesn't represent all the chineses, Indians, burmanese, thais that we see on the road now as they would be citizen by now.

Even if they slow down the granting of PR or citizens process now, there is already alot of them in Singapore. Guess that explains why they have to open up more and more primary schools as our govt is targetting to increase the population to 5.27million by 2015
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/singapore/population-imf-data.html

So hopefully we can only get our children into good schools now to secure place for our grand children. :xedfingers:


http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_782092.html
If what they say is true, that there are 10% PR for the primary one intake, then our chances are only increased by 10%? :nailbite:

Not very much but better than nothing.

[phtthp]

i wonder if our govt has any future intention to make it compulsory new rule such that :-

only when 2 PR parents convert then only can the child become a pure SC ?
in short, whole family must convert.

ie. get rid of half SC

[zakashi]

arielle08:

zakashi:

I am referring to several of my friends who are holding top professional. A child is a SC with only one parent convert to SC. The other remain as PR. This is true. They also received baby bonus! Ha! Ha!

Oh yes, I do have friends like that. One couple is from Myanmar. Another couple from Thailand. But situation exactly the same!
So they are the ones who enjoyed the best of both world. Hubby refuse to convert, wife convert. So hubby PR, wife SC, son also SC.
They got our new flats coz they are entitled to apply just like SC. Was told that now, after 4 yrs, the value doubled.
they got the baby bonus and that tax rebate too. Just like any other sporeans. And yet they get to invest in properties and lands in their own country becoz the hubby is still a citizen of their country.
Smart leh...

Ask if we can invest in his country too, since its so much cheaper than spore. he told me \" Hahahaa foreigners are not welcome to invest, foreigners will need to pay hefty tax and pay a high price. Hahahaa....\"

So such people are the one who benefits from both countries coz our govt give them as much subsidies and priority as our SCs. To our govt, so long as u have 1 SC in your family, u are one of us!!

Dont forget that the said countries and other countries also do not welcome our children to study in their public school. I am still not at peace when MOE told me that as long as the child is a SC, they will enjoy the priority. The parents dont need to be SC which I am quite puzzled. The figures does not gives us the guarantee. There are many PRs even if one of the spouse is SC. This is not absolute priority given to us.

[zakashi]

phtthp:

i wonder if our govt has any future intention to make it compulsory new rule such that :-

only when 2 PR parents convert then only can the child become a pure SC ?
in short, whole family must convert.

ie. get rid of impure SC

They should do it now and not in the future. As the news reported that Singaporean will be given absolute priority for the 2012 P1 registration. They should specify clearly, what they mean Singaporean. The pure SC or the impure SC (half PR / half SC parent with a SC child)? I am only 10% happy and not 100% happy with the news.

[arielle08]

zakashi:

phtthp:

i wonder if our govt has any future intention to make it compulsory new rule such that :-

only when 2 PR parents convert then only can the child become a pure SC ?
in short, whole family must convert.

ie. get rid of impure SC

They should do it now and not in the future. As the news reported that Singaporean will be given absolute priority for the 2012 P1 registration. They should specify clearly, what they mean Singaporean. The pure SC or the impure SC (half PR / half SC parent with a SC child)? I am only 10% happy and not 100% happy with the news.

That is why they quoted that only 10 % of the PR are affected. Coz the impure SC is still considered as a SC, will get the same priority as us.
I believe if they define the rule better, as to give priority to SC with SC parents, I am sure our chances of getting into our choice schools will be higher.

No one can be certain that they will definitely get into the choice schools, since it's only 10% of the people we are having priority over.

And if out of these 10%, some of them involve in PV or grassroots, then they will still have absolute priority over us.

If only all the schools support locals and only get SC to PV, that will be great. As the criteria for volunteering is not transparent, the school can also purposely select PR to PV so they can eventually
join the schools to increase diversity of the school demographic. There is nothing we can do? :stupid:

[qms]

arielle08:

If only all the schools support locals and only get SC to PV, that will be great. As the criteria for volunteering is not transparent, the school can also purposely select PR to PV so they can eventually

join the schools to increase diversity of the school demographic. There is nothing we can do? :stupid:

You must bear in mind that some schools may not have enough PVs if they relies solely on SC.

[zakashi]

qms:

arielle08:

If only all the schools support locals and only get SC to PV, that will be great. As the criteria for volunteering is not transparent, the school can also purposely select PR to PV so they can eventually

join the schools to increase diversity of the school demographic. There is nothing we can do? :stupid:

You must bear in mind that some schools may not have enough PVs if they relies solely on SC.

You are referring to non popular school.