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Secondary schools now require long pants to be worn at upper secondary level. Do u think it makes sense in this weather and should this rule be changed, eg like Catholic High etc

Surprised this was not discussed in MCF since we have Ferrari and Maserati in the picture. I have "donated" many times to top up the shortfall as failure, according to my kids, is not an option. Donation should be voluntary and best effort, think MOE should not allow schools to hide behind this get out of your comfort zone argument. https://doc-0s-6s-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/tnse3eibc1hrk6sr0l3q5ttv96hogj26/1429056000000/00863412894456763530/*/0B92zAtVEUwlmcHdvMnc1aml3UGZKcWhKMWNYLUVmVU1SYnNN?e=download

Singapore top this top that. This time also looks like world champion when it comes to the IB program when a lot of us cannot even pronounce it properly. http://edumatters.sg/how-to-pronounce-baccalaureate-and-what-the-ib-program-is-about/

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AS MANY as 110 errant drivers were caught running the red light in school zones in the first six months of this year alone. That translates to an average of nearly five cases a week. Drivers were also caught for other offences in school zones, such as speeding and tailgating. The Traffic Police gave these updates in response to queries from The Straits Times. Since January, road safety in school zones has been beefed up with harsher punishments, after two brothers were killed by a truck in Tampines last year. Nigel Yap, 13, was cycling across the road with Donavan, seven, who was riding pillion, when the driver hit them. The police did not have a breakdown of the number of offences committed within school zones before the law was toughened earlier this year. Those who run a red light in a school zone will get 13 demerit points - one more than before. For drivers with less than a year's experience, it means their licences will be revoked as they have exceeded the maximum of 12 demerit points in one year. Speeding was the second most common offence in these demarcated areas. Within the first six months of this year, 23 summonses were issued against speedsters who exceeded the 50kmh limit. The Land Transport Authority lowered speed limits outside 10 primary schools to 40kmh in January as part of a pilot project which will be rolled out to more schools progressively. In the first six months of this year, there were also eight cases of inconsiderate driving and 17 instances of careless driving. Examples include tailgating and sudden lane switches. There are more than 300 school zones at primary and secondary schools. MP for Tampines GRC Baey Yam Keng said drivers should keep a lookout at all times in school zones, not just at dismissal hours. "There are schoolchildren who are coming and going all the time. Some of them stay back for CCA (co-curricular activities), some are waiting for their parents. It's alarming and worrisome the number is so high." Nurse May Tan, 52, mother of three, said: "I always remind my kids not to take for granted that green light means 'go', and to watch out for speeding cars. I tell them, 'This involves your life'." Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/transport/story/school-zone-yet-5-drivers-run-red-light-every-week-20140811?page=1

Driving from West to East and jams on PIE. Drove past three accidents and the last one near kallang saw a rider laying motionless on the floor with his bike at least 10m away and blood oozing out from his mouth...no report found...wonder how he is doing although to be chance of surviving is almost nil.... bless him, drive and ride with care, no money or time can buy back life...

10 Old School Chinese Songs Singaporean Will Continue to Sing In 2014 For The Hidden Meaning 1. 那些年 by 胡夏 ( trying to be young song ) This song bring Singaporean back to their University, JC or Secondary life. Singaporean sing this to remind them of that “someone” whom they wish to “jio” ( woo ) by “cannot jio until” (not possible to woo due to various reasons ) Best Lyrics: 那天晚上满天星星 That night, when the sky was full of stars 平行时空下的约定 In parallel time and space, we made a promise 再一次相遇我会紧紧抱着你 If we meet again, I’ll hug you tightly 紧紧抱着你 Hug you tightly 2. 新不了情 by 蕭敬騰 ( trying to impress song ) One of the most challenging song for Singaporean male to impress his ideal girl in KTV. Singaporean male who is able to sing this with applause at the end of the song should really consider to stop studying/career and pursued a singing career Best Lyrics: 回忆过去 Reviewing the past 痛苦的相思忘不了 The painful memories are unforgettable 为何你还来 Why do you come then 拨动我心跳 To make my heart race 3. 祝我生日快樂 by 溫嵐 ( Pre – birthday breakup song ) One of the most popular song for Singaporean teenager girl who just suffer from a break up with her boyfriend. So Singaporean guy, if you happen to be in this KTV room with this girl, don’t put up too much hope on her. She is still living in her past Best Lyrics: 一個人坐在空盪包廂裡面 Sitting alone within an empty booth 手機　讓它休息一夜 My cellphone, I will let it rest for the night 難　像切割切掉回憶的畫面 It’s hard, like cutting until the edges of my memory drop away 眼淚不能流過十二點 The tears can’t keep going past 12 o’clock 4. 我不配 by 周杰倫 ( Not good enough song ) All Singaporean be it male, female or in – between will definitely sing Jay Chou songs when they go for their KTV session. One of the most familiar and popular song will be this. Not worthy to the opposite sex happen all the time, Best Lyrics: Oh 這感覺已經不對 Oh this feeling isn’t right anymore 我最後才了解 It wasn’t until afterwards that I finally understood 一頁頁不忍翻閱的情結妳好累 While flipping through unbearable pages realizing how tired you were 妳莫背為我掉過幾次淚多憔悴 Burdened, you cried yourself dry because of me so many times 而我心碎妳受罪 And I was heart broken that you endured so much 妳的美 我不配 I’m not worthy of your beauty 5. 我可以 by 蔡旻佑 ( Can be done song ) Before this post become a “Emo” (Emotional) post. There many other “happy” songs that you will hear a Singaporean sings in KTV. Most of the time this fellow is already in a relationship which make “us” really really sad. Best Lyrics: 我可以 陪你去看星星 I can take you to see the stars 不用再多說明 There’s no need to say more. 我就要和你在一起 I only want to be with you 我不想 又再一次和你分離 I don’t want to be apart from you once again 我多麼想每一次的美麗 All the good things I’m thinking everytime 是因為你 are all about you 6. 擦肩而過 by 李聖傑 ( Gotten friend – zone song ) One of the most familiar friend zone songs your Singaporean guy friend will select to sing. Best Lyrics: 他 不 会 是 个 好 男 人 He’s not a good man 也 不 会 是 个 好 情 人 and is not a good lover either 你 对 我 说 You told me 我 们 只 是 擦 肩 而 过 We are just had a brief encounter 好 的 男 人 有 那 么 多 There are so many good men out there 少 了 他 的 日 子 也 能 过 without him, life will still go on 7. 專屬天使 by Tank ( going to ask for steady song ) Most of the time this song is being requested from the Singaporean girls in the KTV room. Not really appreciating the male vocalist but be able to see Wu Zhu in the MV. Best Lyrics: 沒有誰能取代妳在我心上 There is no one who can take you away from my side 擁有一個專屬天使 my very own, my angel 我哪裡還需要別的願望 there is nothing else that I desire 要不是妳出現　Without your appearance 我一定還在沉睡　I would still be asleep 絕望的以為 convinced that 生命只有黑夜 this life is full of darkness 8. 暫時的男朋友 by 嚴爵 ( Deeply in love song ) Any Singaporean male who has select this to sing, most probability he already got himself “Gong Tao” (black magic) by the girl. He is allowing himself to be into friend – zone category and continuing to take care of that girl as a rebound Best Lyrics: 我願意當妳的籃板球 I am willing to be your rebound 當一個暫時的男朋友 Be your temporary boyfriend 只要妳需要我陪妳過 If only you need me to help you through 不怕別人怎麼看怎麼說我 this I don’t care how others see or talk about me 不讓妳有一秒鐘寂寞 Not letting you have a second of loneliness 我要填滿妳的現在不排除 今後 I want to fill your today onwards 9 . 當我知道你們相愛 by 何維健 ( just realise crush got into relationship ) Okay readers cheer up this Singaporean who select this song to sing in KTV. He or She has been Friend – Zone just get to know it. Most likely this person had just saw his/her crush status change from single into “relationship”. No. 10 song I hope you can use it to cheer yourself up in KTV. Best Lyrics: 当我知道你们相爱 When I realise you two are in love 有了开始有了未来 With a start and a future 在我心里放不下的也该释怀 Those feeling i can’t let out 收拾好把它掩埋 Pack it up and bury it 10. 沒那麼簡單 by 黃小琥 ( Move forward song ) A move on song which can sung by any relationship problem conditional Best Lyrics: 相爱没有那么容易 it’s not that simple to fall in love 每个人有他的脾气 everyone has their temper 过了爱作梦的年纪 I am past the age of being a dreamer 轰轰烈烈不如平静 excitement is not as good as tranquility 幸福没有那么容易 Happiness is not that simple 才会特别让人着迷 that’s also why it’s that fascinating

This letter made it to ST forum (not TRS), wonder how MOE would respond

what is your thought of this concern mother? did CCA form the best part your school life? or do you think the parents are over protective?

After the implementation of this new ruling, traffic along Bartley road still as tragic. How do TP exercise this "Inconsiderate driving"? Parking along the left lane or dropping student off in the second lane?

what? no air-con school bus?

PSLE RESULT OUT THIS FRIDAY!! Whose turn this year??

http://news.asiaone.com/news/edvantage/river-valley-high-teacher-knocked-down-van-outside-school River Valley High teacher knocked down by van outside school AsiaOne Thursday, Nov 07, 2013 SINGAPORE - A River Valley High School teacher was hit by a goods van suspected of beating the red light near the school gate. Mrs Eileen Pua Jiu Er, 31, a chemistry teacher, suffered three fractures and was sent to hospital, Lianhe Wanbao reported. The accident happened on Tuesday, at a traffic crossing outside the school at about 12.15pm. Mrs Pua had been crossing a road along Boon Lay Avenue, just outside the school, when the accident occured. This morning, Mrs Pua spoke to reporters at the National University Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU). She said she was on her way home and had just started crossing the road when she suddenly felt something hit her forcefully. When she regained consciousness, she found herself lying on a hospital bed. "I saw the pedestrian traffic light turn green before stepping off the curb," she said. "I am a teacher, and I need to set a good example when I'm outside the school, so I definitely wouldn't cross when the light is still red," she told Wanbao reporters. She suffered multiple fractures all over her body, broken ribs and is expected to take at least a month to recover. Closed-circuit television footage was not able to determine if Mrs Pua had dashed across the road when the light had not yet turned green or if the van driver had beaten the red light. ------ Remember that earlier video - where the taxi jammed brakes after running red lights, and managed to stop before hitting the car? This van was not so lucky... hope the punishment is severe. Gotta teach drivers to slow down at amber and stop at red light; not to save a couple of minutes by running the red lights; but risking harming people.

http://news.asiaone.com/news/edvantage/ri-appoints-new-principal Wah lao.. other school principle changes also never write a full page report but RI priniciples gets. no wonder all the best teachers and principle wants to be there.. you get the most recognition.

http://youtu.be/PWO7CMF5otY

A little late but still an interesting read. Something at Wharton doesn't add up. Applications to the University of Pennsylvania's business school have declined 12% in the past four years, with the M.B.A. program receiving just 6,036 submissions for the class that started this fall. That was fewer than Stanford Graduate School of Business, with a class half Wharton's size. Wharton says the decline, combined with a stronger applicant pool and a higher percentage of accepted applicants who enroll, proves that the school is doing a better job targeting candidates. But business-school experts and b-school applicants say Wharton has lost its luster as students' interests shift from finance to technology and entrepreneurship. "We're hearing [applicants say] Stanford, Harvard or nothing. It used to be Stanford, Harvard or Wharton," says Jeremy Shinewald , the founder of mbaMission, an admissions advisory firm. Wharton over the past century built its reputation as a training ground for Wall Street titans, but the financial crisis closed off many paths to such careers. The school in the mid-2000s regularly sent more than a quarter of its students to jobs at investment banks and brokerage firms. That figure has slid into the teens. Top institutions—and the Philadelphia-based school is still in that class—responded to the downturn by restructuring their courses and seeking students from less-traditional business backgrounds. Many schools also strengthened their ties to hot technology companies, like Amazon Inc. and Google Inc., and found opportunities for finance jobs at Fortune 500 companies. After four years struggling to attract students, interest in full-time M.B.A. programs – the bread and butter of business schools – is heating up. Melissa Korn reports on the News Hub. The efforts paid off at several schools. Harvard Business School reported a 3.9% increase in applications this year, and Stanford posted a 5.8% gain. But Wharton's applications dropped 5.8%. Columbia Business School reported a 6.6% increase, recovering from a 19% decline last year. And Duke University's Fuqua School of Business stabilized after an 8.4% drop last year. Some admissions advisers and Wharton professors say the school didn't react aggressively enough when the spigot of finance jobs was turned off and that recent moves, such as a rebranding campaign begun in the spring of last year, did little to clarify the school's profile. Ankur Kumar , Wharton's director of M.B.A. admissions and financial aid, says quantity doesn't equal quality. The average score for Wharton applicants on the standardized b-school entrance exam, the GMAT, rose seven points this year, to a record 725 out of 800. "Our focus is on the quality of our applicant population, and that remains as high as ever," Ms. Kumar says. Only those who really want to attend Wharton are applying, she says. The school's yield, the portion of accepted applicants who enroll, rose several percentage points this year to a record, she says, though she declines to disclose the figure. Some education consultants offer a different take. Wharton alumnus Eliot Ingram , the chief executive of admissions-counseling firm Clear Admit, says one client turned down a $70,000 scholarship from Wharton this year to attend Harvard because he felt that school had a stronger global brand. Wharton held the No. 1 spot on BusinessWeek's semiannual Top M.B.A. ranking from 1994 through 2000, at which point Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management displaced Wharton. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has maintained the crown since 2006. To appeal to new audiences, Ms. Kumar now holds admissions events for students considering entrepreneurship and who are interested in such industries as retail and real estate. The school this month also unveiled a business-and-management satellite-radio channel with Sirius XM Radio Inc. Fiona Fong says she was attracted to Wharton's strong marketing program and data-driven curriculum. She worked in marketing at cosmetics company Estée Lauder Cos. before school and is looking to return to the field. "When you come out of Wharton, you get the reputation that you can handle numbers and analytics," says Ms. Fong, a second-year Wharton student. The year after Ms. Fong applied, Wharton introduced a group discussion to its selection process, requiring candidates to demonstrate leadership and teamwork abilities in front of admissions representatives. "Our guess is that might have made some students reluctant to apply," says Wharton Vice Dean Howard Kaufold. He says he isn't concerned about the application decline and is pleased with the caliber of the school's students. Dan Lee says he briefly considered Wharton but instead focused on schools that he believed had stronger general management training. Wharton is "typecast as the finance school," he says. For Mr. Lee, a first-year student at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, "going to business school was not about going into the financial sector." Virgil Archer says he wanted "a frothy tech scene." Mr. Archer, who is in his first year at the University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management, says Wharton didn't have the same entrepreneurial atmosphere. Wharton also has lacked continuity. The school has had four admission directors in the past decade. Ms. Kumar's counterparts at Harvard and Stanford have been at their schools for more than a decade. "If you put a baseball team on the field that's new every year, it's going to be tough to get chemistry and an overarching strategy," says former Wharton admissions officer Graham Richmond , the founder of higher-education consulting firm Southwark Consulting. And the aftermath LOL Ankur Kumar , director of M.B.A. admissions and financial aid at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, is leaving her post effective Friday. The move comes as campus leaders are questioning whether Wharton has done enough to distinguish itself in the marketplace. Wharton's M.B.A. application volume has declined in recent years, even as competitor schools have rebounded from dips caused by the financial crisis and waning Wall Street job opportunities. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that some admissions consultants, applicants and even some professors say Wharton has lost some of its cachet and is no longer perceived as on par with Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School. People familiar with the matter said Ms. Kumar told staff of her decision last week. Such departures are rare in the middle of the admissions season—Wharton closed out its first round of applications on Tuesday afternoon. Neither Ms. Kumar nor representatives from the school responded to requests for comment, but in a note to colleagues and friends on Wednesday, Ms. Kumar said that she has been "pursuing several different opportunities in New York City in the past few months" and would have news of a new job soon. Ms. Kumar, who received her M.B.A. from Wharton in 2007, joined the admissions staff in 2009 and took over as director in 2011. Wharton Dean Tom Robertson said in a note to students and faculty that the admissions team will continue to operate under Maryellen Lamb , the school's former careers director who in late August was named deputy vice dean for M.B.A. admissions, financial aid and career management. Ms. Kumar and school officials have said the lower application figures, combined with a higher yield, indicate the school has been better targeting candidates. Applications fell nearly 12% in the past four years. The school doesn't disclose its yield or acceptance rates. To be sure, Wharton students are in great demand in the corporate world. Nearly 98% of job-seeking graduates from the class of 2013 had full-time offers from top companies, including Amazon Inc., McKinsey & Co. Google Inc. andGeneral Mills Inc. There has been a revolving door at Wharton's admissions office in recent years. Rose Martinelli left the school in 2005 to oversee admissions at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Her successor at Wharton, Thomas Caleel , arrived at the office that year after a career in startups, retail and private equity; he left after the class of 2008 graduated. And J.J. Cutler , who came to Wharton in 2009 from a marketing position at Aramark, left two years later to return to the company.

Anybody here with pr sch kid taking sch bus? I know it is the practice here that we still need to pay for the service even for school holidays, which i feel is rather ridiculous but no choice just bare with it. My kid is having psle tomorrow and I was told that the bus won't be fetching my kid home because there is no school for other levels. While this really gets to my nerve and before I make any complain, can I just check if this the practice everywhere else?

I am trying to find colour pictures of school crest, school logos and school badges. Especially those schools that had been closed/combined with other schools. Please feel free to attach scan picture of them. Cheers

seeing lots of really wtf postings nowadays... school holiday liao?

Expat spoiled brat?? but the driver not scare kena sue if anything would happen to the kids? [sweatdrop]

Kindergarten school bus carrying kids crashes through barrier and into other vehicles A school bus carrying nine students from Glory Kindergarten crashed through a barrier near Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School near Upper Bukit Timah Road. The incident, which happened around noon on Tuesday, saw the bus hitting two stationary vehicles and a bicycle. School principal Mrs Helen Chua told The Straits Times that the bus driver was making his way out of the kindergarten grounds when he appeared to lose control of his vehicle, which ploughed through the fence straight ahead instead of turning right as intended. The children on board, who are aged between four and six, along with their adult bus attendant and driver escaped with "very minor injuries" such as bruises and bumps, said Mrs Chua. "Everyone had their seat belts on so that was probably what prevented something worse from happening," she added, noting that it is the first time such an incident has happened with any of the school's transportation services. The bus driver is understood to be a male in his late 40s with a clean driving record and an employee of one of the school's longtime bus service vendors. Police investigations are ongoing. Wah lau eh, what's going on nowadays..

As thread title, open for any discussion. Thinking what is the mentality of young parents or parents to be in this era?? Ang mo style- let kids earn themselves Chinese style- save up for kids

Maybe our teachers here should get a lesson too from Jeff,

Amazing when you consider that many fit, able-bodied young gung ho kids do fail such courses in doves. Guess it is not only the punishing physical part but the more important mental determination that sees this 34-yo vet passing it. Incredible... From Yahoo!News: http://news.yahoo.com/army-amputee-complet...-225232180.html Army amputee completes air assault school By KRISTIN M. HALL | Associated Press