Why the S’pore Education System Has Actually Made a “U-Turn” After 45 Years

Do you know that back in the past, there were Primary 7 and Primary 8 students, and those were deliberate decisions, not retained students?
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[@geekroute]

i remember the p7 and p8 students speak mostly Hokkien. that was in 1991

[@dchew5552]

right after watching this, im not stupid 3 trailer was played 😂

[@contactkelvinsim]

Making a 12 yo extend 2 years in primary school is cruel. Put a negative stamp on the child's self-confidence only to make the child go through a 5 year secondary course finishing at 19 yo. While most finish at 16.

[@ysngngys7753]

Salah...only students with special pass can buy fish, and not students can choose to buy fish from the cai png stall...

[@kelvinphua2870]

I was from P8 monolingual. Currently working as engineer

[@anglo-saxonconnor817]

Singapore stress on passing english,science and maths no matter what era you are born in. In earlier times if you fkunked these subjects you do another two more years in primary school and if you still cant pass your psle you are send to vocational institute and ite. In latter years they use streaming to suss out how good you are. You dont study eight years primary school if you sucks. You will just get send into dofferent secondary streams and classes to take either your n or o level exams. Nothing change actually. You are still being objectify and rightly so.

[@ToddlerKicker]

And the social class has never been wider. Express kids making fun of NA and NT for their behavior/rowdiness, etc. You will rarely see friendships between different streams unless they met earlier in primary school. Social-economic class is another story on its own.

[@anglo-saxonconnor817]

That is the dark side of human nature and the result of herd mentality. It exist in all humans even in kids and without proper guidance to dispel away unneeded stigma and prejudice such behaviours will follow a human into adulthood and into the grave. Conformity give people comfort and status give people a sense of superiority over others. I was lucky enough to be raise in a good family and also have enough necessary wisdom and goodness to understand all these and eliminate these thoughts and behaviours away over the course of my lifetime. Even as a child until now as an adult I mix with all and treat people with respect no matter how high or how different they are from myself.

[@SHxxxxT]

i recalled a "jiejie" at my babysitter house who was in pri 7 or 8 when i was in pri 1..she was the only person i knew personally that went through it. so yep, it def happened.

[@Slla-th5vt]

Yar. I remember seeing the pri 7/8 classroom back in my primary sch. But it is bad for the students' psychologically since they are basically the laughing stock of the whole school.

[@gohalvin21]

I am not the brightest student but I can say that this Pri 7 or 8 systems work then rather than now. I do personally know friends (now in their 40s / 50s) that studied P7/8 that are doing very well now. The extended 2 years actually gave them more time to blush up on their languages.

[@g0ldenexperience]

Thank you for making this video. Now they know that I am not talking tall tales when I said I studied primary 7 and 8

[@RonLarhz]

So you rather ppl know that you cmi?🙃

[@N____er]

Going too hard on the singlish

[@ngzy3561]

Secondary Five no more. Most Secondary Schools final batch of Secondary Five this year.

[@leoahmadkhanofficial]

My first language is English second is malay but i can only speak malay a little bit so i think i would be in EM2 (if it still existed)

[@tkyap2524]

Education prepares, the rest is up to the individual. There will always be success and failure stories.

[@amirfarhan5134]

Wah..I remember five kids who was Primary 8 Mono when I was in Primary 6 decades ago. He looked much older and was definitely out of place, and I remember his name was Alex.

[@nobodynoonenowhere5609]

It's complicated!😂😂

[@wjlim7498]

Primary 7/8 is for those really cmi/cui students one, like no matter how they teach also catch no ball that kind, that is like the 90s kids that grow up that cannot speak basic English, no matter learn how many years also hopeless that kind,

[@yong9613]

Wait till your kids kena....😉

[@gearfet7622]

For anyone who forgot, Google: “get out of my elitist uncaring face” 😂😂😂

[@easymukbang3835]

Education has big problem ... You cannot teach a fish to run on the ground... 😢

[@DN2Aria]

where the sponsor from the husband for this video

[@yeeloongong]

you think the husband really won ? congrats, he is sleeping in the living room tonight liao

[@anglo-saxonconnor817]

There are two simple things to know in life. There are streaming in schools to filter and categorise students in life and your certs depreciate in value with each passing year with a new batch of graduates that come out every year. Meaning you need to strive as hard as possible to get into the most suitable stream for yourself and find yourself a job as soon as you get a degree and graduate. The longer you wait and goof around the less value you have in the labour market. No rest for you. It is a mad dash from cradle to grave for most people. Lol

[@Slla-th5vt]

I disagree with the part about the certs depreciating in value. That is only so if your cert is from a paper mill school. What ppl don't understand is the cert is your base ground when you graduate. After you start work you are building on your base ground. Having a good cert means you are on better base ground.

[@anglo-saxonconnor817]

No matter how good your school is you won't be the only one that graduates from it. Every year your school alone churns out an entire batch of graduates whose age and degrees are more relevant to the current year. And it is not just one school alone. All the schools along with the entire ivy league whose rankings are equal produce countless graduates and degree holders in a single year. This is not hard to explain and to understand. Perhaps you are too enamoured with your degree prestige and enjoy looking at it hanging on the wall to realise how much time have passed in the real world as well as how many competitors the schools have released out into the labour market. Not to mention the longer you sit out and goof around the older and bad your interviewers and bosses will see you in contrast to the fresher crop of graduates.

[@anglo-saxonconnor817]

My point is even a good cert will depreciate in value if you don't want to use it. It's not gold my friend. It's just a piece of paper acting as a licence for you to gain an entry into the company threshold which others will also have too.

[@Slla-th5vt]

@@anglo-saxonconnor817 it's not the cert that depreciate in value. It is the job seeker that depreciate the value. You are making the mistake of thinking it is the cert that gives value. The cert is there to prove the job seeker has some amount of skills.

[@anziar3038]

Wow! S'pore has one of the best education systems in the world. PAP is obviously the only competent and effective party in s'pore.❤❤

[@tankman20064]

Lousy lah

[@War_pigeon.]

hi cat;0 subbed alr and hate moe:)

[@raymasraymas]

Is there an English version of this video? Or did the curriculum fail to promote English entirely? As a academic in educational theories and pedagogy it would be really interesting to understand

[@cco768]

we got an EM1 here!!! woww!!!

[@Cashiera]

nb got so hard to understand meh

[@gdzephyriac2766]

This video is in English lol, get gud.

[@raymasraymas]

@@gdzephyriac2766 You have a wonderful sense of humour my friend. If this is English then I can speak Swahili!

[@yeah..]

But the video... Is English?

[@papayongsarninei8133]

葵花宝典练成，果然威不可挡 。

[@yong9613]

日出東方， 為我不敗