MOE to stop publishing names of top students?
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But there is no other prize or honour apart from being named. It does not come with a cash prize. It does not come with a scholarship. It does not come with a job offer. You don’t even get a medal. How does being named amonst the top scorers in itself lead to the child "temporarily forgetting humanity"?
By not recognizing those who top the batch, we are impliedly sending our children the message that once they are capable of hitting a certain score (ie. enough to get into their ‘dream’ school), there is no reason to work harder. In other words, merely being ‘excellent’ is good enough, there is no reason to work harder because what you can achieve beyond that does not meet ‘social objective’ or has ‘no value add’.
To me, that sounds even more mercenary and materialistic. -
Talk about knee-jerk reactions. Just because the noise about PSLE being stressful is getting louder, they are now going into overdrive to avoid all possible contribution to that stress.
Whatever the press prints, people will read and thereafter, who can remember who was top scorer from which school in what year. Spend more time beefing up the syllabus and getting the teachers up to par. All these thing about reporting about top student and whatever are inconsequential. -
Is there someone tracking the development of all our psle top scores how they are doing in schools, boy-girl relationship, marriage, work etc? I do not see the reason why not releasing names to celebrate the joy of the kid achievement.
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MOE is still celebrating and encouraging academic excellence; it is done more subtly thru scholarship and other grants and maybe through the school’s own prize giving. I know ACS does have ceremony to honour their top scorer.
Just that the recognition does not come publicly.
PSLE score does not even need to be included in your resume, no?
If A level is cert is required for resume and yet the A level top scorer is not publicised; So why the need to honour PSLE top scorer ?
As such, in my opinion; there is not so much of a difference whether or not PSLE top scorer is publicised.
Technical excellence is not the determining paths our child will take as many do not end up pursuing a career related to their field of study. How many bankers are business grads? How many chemistry graduates actually went on to become a chemist?
Many at the top management may not excel academically when young. They are only those with average grades. If so, why the need to glorify the top scorer?
Even if you want to compete for your country be it academic or sports; it is because of your passion not because you expect to be recognized and honour.
If one is humble and rich in soul, one does not need recognition and honour and your country to rejoice and celebrate your achievements,
just like you do charity out of your own goodwill; you do not need the recognition. -
Funz:
When name announced p6 ppl already no stress as exam over. The other levels students they are not involve in the exam would they care much who is the top? Where does the stress come from? Unless some crazy fella wanna his kid to beat the previous years top scorer than maybe there is stress for this kid.Talk about knee-jerk reactions. Just because the noise about PSLE being stressful is getting louder, they are now going into overdrive to avoid all possible contribution to that stress.
Whatever the press prints, people will read and thereafter, who can remember who was top scorer from which school in what year. Spend more time beefing up the syllabus and getting the teachers up to par. All these thing about reporting about top student and whatever are inconsequential. -
ChiefKiasu:
Why are you concern abt that?
I don't think the issue is whether it is fair or not fair for top scorers' names to be published. I am more concerned with the innuendo that MOE feels that publishing names of top scorers actually creates an \"over-emphasis on academic results\". If that is the case, then we should stop going for International academic competitions, Math Olympiads, etc because they promote unhealthy celebration of academic prowess amongst students.SAHM_TAN:
Was watching a jap cartoon. Suddenly I thought so strange of us adults to feel pity for the top scorers, their name not published this year. But what if the top scorers don't care :rotflmao: of course not knowing that they are the national top scorers, assuming no one investigate and then with absolute certainty told them that they are, they might not feel it's unfair to them that now MOE don't announce their name.
Heehee -
sleepyqueen:
The last part cracks me up :rotflmao:
When name announced p6 ppl already no stress as exam over. The other levels students they are not involve in the exam would they care much who is the top? Where does the stress come from? Unless some crazy fella wanna his kid to beat the previous years top scorer than maybe there is stress for this kid.Funz:
Talk about knee-jerk reactions. Just because the noise about PSLE being stressful is getting louder, they are now going into overdrive to avoid all possible contribution to that stress.
Whatever the press prints, people will read and thereafter, who can remember who was top scorer from which school in what year. Spend more time beefing up the syllabus and getting the teachers up to par. All these thing about reporting about top student and whatever are inconsequential. -
What is wrong with I want to climb that mountain because it is high, and the mountain I choose to climb is to be No. 1?
What does it matter if 10 years later nobody remembers who the top scorer was? It was a worthy goal at that time. What you are saying is that you should not be climbing that mountain because there is not necessarily any value add to being No. 1. How much more materialistic can one get?
Well… I don’t think our education system should satisfy itself with merely producing excellence. It should also produce champions. -
sleepyqueen:
Precisely, whoever came up with this idea feels that all these reporting of top student from which school adds to the emphasis of academic achievements which in turn adds stress to the parents.
When name announced p6 ppl already no stress as exam over. The other levels students they are not involve in the exam would they care much who is the top? Where does the stress come from? Unless some crazy fella wanna his kid to beat the previous years top scorer than maybe there is stress for this kid.Funz:
Talk about knee-jerk reactions. Just because the noise about PSLE being stressful is getting louder, they are now going into overdrive to avoid all possible contribution to that stress.
Whatever the press prints, people will read and thereafter, who can remember who was top scorer from which school in what year. Spend more time beefing up the syllabus and getting the teachers up to par. All these thing about reporting about top student and whatever are inconsequential.
For me, no diff whether the information is available. Just feel that this move is unnecessary. -
As I stated in a post last year, Singapore is well on its way to becoming a mediocre country, thanks to all the clamouring to reduce ‘stress’ and ‘competition’, in all aspects of life, from schooling to employment.
If there is too much competition from top foreign students, we don’t want it. If there is too much competition from foreign workers, we don’t want it. Keep them both out. If there are high paying jobs that are too stressful, we don’t want them either. And by the way, we don’t want any other Singaporeans to have them too, in case they get paid too well and therefore raise the cost of living for the rest of us, so please send those jobs to China or Malaysia instead. GEP? Too stressful, but since I can’t get my children in there, I don’t want any other Singaporean child to attend either.
I hate to say this, but the politics of envy have taken over our decision making.
I have felt the malaise for a while already and this is yet another sign of how lily-livered a society we have become.
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