Today, my classmates and I had a Language arts lesson, where we went through an article about elite schools. The main point of the lesson, was to teach us to analyse the reliability of an essay. In the end, we had to deem the article as unreliable, because the author did not provide sufficient evidence to back up her claims. One example was where she mentioned that almost all of her schools head prefects were Gifted Education Programme pupils. She did not even provide the names and years in order to sufficiently support what she said.
However, even though the article is not a reliable article, I still do feel that there were some relevant learning points. She mentioned that it is not necessary for parents to move next to the school or go to the school to do voluntary work so as to get their children into elite schools. I believe that if a student works hard, he will still be able to do well, get awards and go into a good secondary school. Singapore's education system is based on meritocracy. As long as the child has the heart to learn, and gets a good grade or score, he could probably get himself into better schools as he moves up from different levels of education.
A point which I do not hold the same view as her, is that schools call the parents of students with poor grades, so as to kick them out. I do not think that that is the case. When schools call parents, they want to understand the situation better, so as to be able to cooperate with them to bring the students grades up. They will not give their students up like that so easily.
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