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Feb 15, 2007
School tests near CNY hard on some students

CHINESE New Year is just around the corner. Foreigners, particularly those of Chinese origin, are naturally excited and many are anxious to return home.

Students from China are in an exuberant mood - they can be with their parents and grandparents on this joyous occasion.

However, this enthusiasm has been dampened for some as some secondary schools seem bent on preventing them from leaving on time.

As Saturday is Chinese New Year’s Eve and almost all flights out of Singapore are fully booked, many students have to fly out on Friday.

However, what some schools have done is set an important test on Friday, making it impossible for such students to catch their flights.

And a few have done it with little prior warning, forcing the students into a mad scramble to cancel or change their flight tickets.

While the school curriculum is no doubt important and attendance must be maintained, is it really necessary to conduct a test at such a time and deprive the students of a reunion with their family during this traditional festival?

Education should encompass all areas of life. Observing cultural practices and maintaining close ties with family members are as vital as school textbooks and tests.

Daniel Chan Wai Piew

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First Impression: What rubbish!?

My Take:

I simply love quoting from people. Especially people who refuse to make any sense:)

As Saturday is Chinese New Year’s Eve and almost all flights out of Singapore are fully booked, many students have to fly out on Friday.

You made it sound as if it is compulsory that students have to catch their flights on Friday?

However, what some schools have done is set an important test on Friday, making it impossible for such students to catch their flights.

So you mean schools should willingly and purposely keep friday free so that students can skip school?

And a few have done it with little prior warning, forcing the students into a mad scramble to cancel or change their flight tickets.

Not the students scramble la. It is parents like you who played a role in encouraging Singapore’s next generation to skip school.

While the school curriculum is no doubt important and attendance must be maintained, is it really necessary to conduct a test at such a time and deprive the students of a reunion with their family during this traditional festival?

Where is the link? And since you prefer the reunion, skip the test! Nobody had any problems with that! Not as if your kid’s school will have a lower MSG because your kid skipped the exam.

Education should encompass all areas of life. Observing cultural practices and maintaining close ties with family members are as vital as school textbooks and tests.

What a sweet sounding way to say that “Education should teach people how to skip school”.

Damn, this is very unfair. Poor souls like me will have to endure the test will rich elites in the country can skip school and fly half way around the globe.

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