给sibling 和proximity 优先权是合理的要绝对公平那只能大家什么条件不摆就一上来就抽签了。
房价现在已经是名校区很高了,
但是至少还有在hdb 附近的名校,比如公教 爱童 rulang red swastica等一般家庭负担的起hdb的价格,问题是校友呼啦就把大片名额都占了,这叫什么事啊。
爸是acs boy 儿子也要acs boy 精英们好不自以为是。
大學既然如此重要,如 何成功闖關、得到名牌大學的青睞自然發展成一種「家庭工業」(cottage industry)。所謂知己知彼,家長要幫孩子考入他們心儀的大學,必須了解大學的收生政策(admission policy)。要知道的,不只是大學想招收什麼學生;還要明白它硬起心腸,要拒諸門外的是甚麼學生,這點很關鍵。名牌大學之所以是名牌大學,不是因為它 教出最好的學生,而是因為它吸納最好的學生。它們的座右銘是:If you want to graduate winners, you have to admit winners——如果踏出校門的名牌大學畢業生多數是成功人士,那是因為他們在踏入校門的時候已經是成功人士。
報讀 名牌大學是一個遊戲,家長想贏,便要明白它的遊戲規則。在《雀屏中選:哈佛、耶魯和普林斯頓招生與拒收學生不為人知的歷史》(The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale and Princeton)一書,美國社會學家卡拉貝(Jerome Karabel) 詳述美國名校怎樣利用其「極具辨識力」與「頗有歧視色彩」的收生和排外政策,來建立和鞏固它們的名牌大學地位。
and you have to fight for your rights. no one owe you anything, the schools do not owe you a vacancy. if you find travelling time consuming, you can settle for a "lousier" school, no one forces you to squeeze your head into top schools.
the schools have their own interest to protect, for the very top schools, alumni parents are more likely to be supportive of the school and provide family environment condusive for producing good students. top schools are not black boxes that any input will givw you a good output, they ensure they have good output by taking in good input.
you are right about old money having more resources, and the government wants to counter that, that meritocracy cannot be jeopardized by eliticism, but would that be easily done? before that is achieved, you have to live with the fact that kids from privileged families have better resource and better chance of success, not because they are genetically superior.
as for my obvious reasons, i have explained in my oher posts, the government wont be so foolish to drive the property market crazy this way.
want to get into a certain school? marry an alumni/ staff, by all means.