If your child scored well for the PSLE but is laid back, would you still want to send him to a top school? Find out what Education Minister Chan Chun Sing would do on the Deep Dive podcast.
CNA's weekly news podcast takes a deep dive into issues that people talk about at dining tables and along the office corridors. Hosted by Steven Chia and Crispina Robert.Since the announcement that Singapore's Gifted Education Programme will be revamped to cater to more students, questions about equal distribution of resources and the added burden on teachers have come up.
Divisional Director Ong Kong Hong, Ministry of Education, Crispina Robert, Minister of Education Chan Chun Sing, Steven Chia. Then we have to ask, because this is one issue, or one exam, or one test that everyone talks about - that four-letter one -PSLE . Now, if we have the mindset that whatever exam it is, whether is it P1, P2 ... or 6 ... what's the real purpose of the exam? The real purpose of the exam is not so much to sort people out into different schools, per se. The real purpose of any exam is to help our learners be in a suitable environment for their next lap of their learning journey. So just now, using our example, you know your kid is, on average, a good kid, but he's not exceptionally talented one way or the other.
So actually, the answer depends on the child's abilities and interests, but you asked another very important question, and my final answer, correct answer, is not so much whether you go for the AL 6, 4 to 6 or 10 or 12. I say the final answer should be, where does your child want to go?We always try to make decisions for our children. But sometimes, we forget that they are the ones who have to take ownership of their decision. But of course, today, we are in a different age.
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