fightingmom:

Tania:

Is it the right time to sell private pty?

First thing first, what is the reason for selling ?

take profit lor

Is it the right time to sell private pty?

No news, abt this case. Wonder what is the follow up action?

Married man shld learn and not to have any one to one date with other woman/staff/colleague. And boss shld not employ 可怜又可爱的女人。(OT)

MummySTay:

ooioo,

Do you mind telling us where exactly you stay?

She stays near CCK/Dairy Farm area.

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.

Dear Fressia and mwchua


The main issues can be sub-divided into two categories:

- The attitude of the bus driver and the money issues
It really depend on yr luck, i got a lousy bus driver too so my dd stopped taking the school bus. The payment issue sound weird to me cos i paid $20 for her CCA bus with unlimited trip. For this issue, I can understand mwchua’s frustration.

- Timing in which the school bus reaches the school
My dd’s school reaches the school between 6.40am to 6.50am. School requires the kids to be in school by 7.20am. Hence, the kids are in school perhaps like 30 mins to 35 mins before 7.20am. There may be student prefect on the board and they have to be at their respective area by 7am.

Hence, it is misleading to say that the kids reach sch 1 hour before school.
The 1 hour which mwchua has mentioned could it be traveling time from home to school? But if you are staying miles away from RGPS, the 1 hour travelling time on the bus is unavoidable.

This issue is not new, parents who are staying far away from school just doesn’t want to face the fact until the problem starts to kick in when their kids is in P3.

ER:

I hope parents here don't mind my saying my 5 cents share here. I agree sleep and rest is important and it seems to be top on the mind of parents here. Then why not enrol in a school near home? Sometimes, you can't have the cake and eat it too.


I put my girl on the bus because I am a working mum. I am also one who whine when my girl is dropped off 5 minutes later. But if you think about it, do you think the driver not want to start his day later and end earlier too? Everyone is just trying to make a living in an expensive city we live in.

I like yr post too. :goodpost:

Why dun parents enrol their kids in a school near home? :?

HVR:

Bus drivers wake up at what time? Nobody seems to care.


Bus drivers/companies make arrangements to ferry workers so as to keep bus fare down and shouldn't we appreciate it? They maximize resources by using the same buses to fetch workers after making the school trips, optimize use of resources and shouldn't we encourage it? We want government to subsidize us to pay bus fare so they don't have to fetch factory workers? So who fetch factory workers? Put more buses on the road and cause more pollution and congestion? Government subsidize this and that and where does the money come from? Cannot get the money from raising tax so cut salary of everyone in the government including civil servants?

When we planned to put our daughters in RGPS have we considered the distance between school and home? Don't we already know how the school transport system work at the time of the enrollment? Or do we expect the system to tweak to suit our individual needs once we secured a place in the school?

I can go on and on but sometimes, I feel that we, as parents, must do something at our ends and shouldn't just hope for other parties to fix thing for us. Why not get your daughter to sleep early, let's say, 9 p.m. so that even if she has to wake up at 5 a.m., she still has 8 hours of sleep?

Well said. I like yr post. :hi5:

Freesia:

Tania,

We are not targeting the bus driver. They have their maintenance as well.
If govt. can give them subsidy in form of lower rental/waiver of COE/topping up the difference bet. international school bus fee and local etc.. then their cost will come down and they do not have to ferry the office worker and will thus reduce the driver's frustration to shuttle and rush? Afterall, after 9.00am; the drivers are free till the next pick up for afternoon session. As such; they have their breaks as well. Compare to Japan where drivers takes pride in their Job; the attitude is very much different.
I know of bus driver who only ferry international student and lives comfortably.
Also the bus company; they get paid during the March, June, Sep, Nov and Dec holiday even if they do not have to ferry the student. In that sense; the bus driver should be able to compromise a wee bit. Some Tuition teacher and piano teacher only get paid for services. Not all students who study in RGPS comes from priviledge background who can afford living at Hillcrest areas. Some got posted due to GEP etc..... Perhaps you are not aware that some of the bus driver attitude sucks big time. They are just some people who does not respond to kindness, no?

My girl has taken the sch bus before and i dun like his service... . And he scolded my girl for being late for just a few minutes when she took the CCA bus and he 'threatened' her that he will not to send her home the next time round. Hence, i do agree that their service is lousy.

We are not staying near the school but distance wise is ok for us cos it takes abt 15 mins to get her school. The bottom line is the parents chose the sch with their eyes opened wrt to the distance from home to sch esp those enter RGPS from P1.

Those who enter RGPS at P4 to take the ge programme, i can understand their problem cos they only have 9 schools to choose from.

It is easy to blame others for the traffic jam etc but the long distance from home to school is really the issue.

Japan is a very special country, the people there are very proud of their job and is just in their blood. It is not possible to compare them against the bus driver.

Lastly, the Govt is not a charity organisation and if they start helping the bus drivers, they open up a flood gate and all the hawkers, etc will be running to the Govt for help.