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P1 registration: Child must live at declared address for at least 30 months from July 2, 2015
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Children who have secured places in primary schools under the home-school distance priority will be required to stay at the address for at least 30 months from the start of the Primary 1 registration exercise on July 2, 2015. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

By Amelia Teng

SINGAPORE - Children who have secured places in primary schools under the home-school distance priority scheme will be required to live at the address for at least 30 months from the start of the Primary 1 registration exercise on July 2.

This new rule applies to children entering primary school next year. Previously there was no specific length of time set by the Ministry of Education (MOE).

 

The ministry said on its website: "A child who gains priority admission into a school through his/her distance category is required to reside at the address used for registration for at least 30 months from the commencement of the P1 registration exercise on 2 July 2015."

 

The ministry said that there are a small number of cases where families are unable to remain at the registered address for the entire duration of their children's primary school studies.

 

 

Even so, a child who gains priority admission into school by distance must still abide by the new rule, it said.

"If this condition is not met, MOE reserves the right to transfer the child to another school with vacancies, as the priority admission to the first school was based on the declared address used for registration," the ministry said.

 

"The home-school distance category priority is given with the expectation that the family will reside at the address for the duration of the child's primary school studies, as it is for the convenience and interest of the child," it added.

 

Families which have bought a yet-to-be completed property and plan to move in after it is completed, are required to live at the new address for at least 30 months starting from the time the family moves into the property.

 

"For example, if the child registers in 2015 and only moves into the new address in July 2017, the 30 months stay period starts from July 2017," MOE said on its website.

 

In March this year, a father who lied about where he lived to get his daughter into a top primary school was sentenced to two weeks

in jail.

 

The 35-year-old self-employed man, who cannot be named to protect his daughter's identity, pleaded guilty in February to giving false information to the school's principal on July 30, 2013.

 

A charge of lying to a police sergeant 10 days earlier to change the address on his identity card was taken into consideration.

The man had indicated his address as being within 1km to 2km of the brand-name school, when he registered his daughter under Phase 2C of the Primary 1 registration exercise in 2013. This allowed his daughter to secure a place.

 

His identity card showed the same address, but the man actually lived in Balestier Road, which fell outside the priority radius.

 

The address he provided belonged to his uncle's sister, and had been rented out.

His subterfuge came to light when MOE visited the place.

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- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/education/story/p1-registration-child-must-stay-declared-address-least-30-months-july#sthash.AgdvwxeK.dpuf

 

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tolong!! if all schools are good schools.. there is no need for such rule!!

 

All schools are good schools. No one said all schools are equal. [laugh]

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tolong!! if all schools are good schools.. there is no need for such rule!!

The other thing is the ranking. If primary weren't ranked in the 1st place (either officially or unofficially), who would know which school did the best.

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The other thing is the ranking. If primary weren't ranked in the 1st place (either officially or unofficially), who would know which school did the best.

some parents will still go dig dig dig the results and compare each school...

 

actually hor, might as well rotate the teachers in the similar neighbourhood lah!! hehehe

 

All schools are good schools. No one said all schools are equal. [laugh]

i missed the fine prints... [bigcry][bigcry]

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too many people apply based on this rule, need extra filter to sieve out the genuine ones. tiagong even got people rent rooms just so that they can use that as a registered address. really TMD

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tolong!! if all schools are good schools.. there is no need for such rule!!

 

All schools can be good schools, but not all children are good...and spoil the good school.

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30 months only?

i thought elite already doing it ... buy property near elite school 2-3 years before enrollment

after that ... can move out liao ... then sibling got chance to go same school even living in other estate already

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