As a singaporean, since young we are faced wth a very structured education system, and cross path at 12 years old to dictate the path and secondary school we are going which very much has decided the future path for you.
As parents, children education is upmost important, instead of saying our expectations it is actually our fears that children may not be able to receive a good environment for education, unable to compete with others and eventually lack of choices when they are in the society.
While gov has made changes to the system, like mixing students of different grades in neighbourhood schools, and reassuring parents grades are not everything. it did not remove the fact that grades are still the fundamental selection for schools, for subject streaming, for future secondary, JC, Poly, ITE and eventually University, which determine the future career paths that they can be in. That is the only benchmark you can have to dictate the ability of the person.
Of course one will say that they can specialise in something else. Thats provided that his speciality is able to safeguard his future. which what most people say, born to do this. but most people dont have such specialty then what can we do?
As parents we all understand, grades alone do not suggest good future as the economy plays an important factor. What we merely want is just to ensure our children do their best to ensure that their future has more options.
So Best of luck to all parents trying their best to ensure the success of their kids, and balance between stress and happiness and childhood experience.
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