1) I have a doctor friend who came from a neighborhood school stay within 1km from NYPS. His kid did not manage to get into NYPS, because the slots were taken by some other kid stay in jurong west or so, whose parent by chance studied in NYPS 30 years ago. He is spending more time on road sending his kids to a school miles away for the next 6 years.
I have another doctor friend stay within 1km from TaoNan. He is less hopeful of getting his kid in this school within his walking distance. The plan is sending the kids to maris stella many miles away, which was his primary school.
If this legacy system is making sense to you, it certainly has not made sense to many of us.
2) I have seen statistics showing graduate kids outperformed the non-graduate kids in certain areas. But none statistics showed alumni kids had more promising future than the kids stay nearby the school. If you have done some private studies, share with us, before concluding it is statistically proven.
3) I have a lawyer colleague studied in NYPS many years ago. He told me he was in NYPS for its proximity. It was the choice for ppl living in the area that time. He did not expect it to be a school so sought after now.
4) If the proximity rule were adopted, applying your logic, the top schools still get to pick from the most promising pool of genes whatsoever , as someone cannot afford a residential property near NYPS is less likely to be successful than the ones who can ( who are perceived to be more privileged and socially resourceful). And the one who are willing to move and stay nearby a dream primary school shall be perceived to be more committed in education than the one who are not. This part of argument of yours does not stand by itself.
5) For the sake of the argument, do not mix the concept of alumni of a graduate school or a top JC with the alumni of a primary school. You are totally missing the point. We might pay respect to ppl who are ex-HwoChong, ex-RI, ex-Harvard etc. But If you go round and telling others how special you feel being an ex-NYPS , I bet you be labeled “joke of the day”.
6) let us wait and see which is more right. Only time will tell.
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系统生成：由于楼层数受限，本帖实际回复的是 niumum 的帖子 “just to clarify that i'm not saying alumni kids”
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