Mind... the (income) gap

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Then we talk about social mobility. How many social mobility stories have you heard in Singapore these days? There are not many because it is not easy to move up the social ladder in Singapore. If you happen to be born into a poor family. Good luck to you. The richer folks will get the best tuition from expensive private schools, while you only can rely on yourself to study hard. That is even before you enter into Primary school. This severly hampers your chance of doing well in PSLE, which happens to be the main fork in the education system in Singapore. If you to badly and go to Normal (T), you can forget about entering into a proper Uni in Singapore.

Sometimes, how much you have all depends on whose womb God chose to put you in.

Social mobility stories are not rare in Singapore, probably much more common versus other countries.

How about those President Scholars that are born in poor families? How about those Ministers/PSs that are born in poor families? How about those CEOs, entrepreneurs and top earners that are born in poor families? I can go on and on....

Perhaps some statistics will be useful......rather than "oh, i read of this guy from poor background and blah blah".
I could be wrong but I remember i read somewhere that there is a much higher proportion of students in "good" schools with landed/private properties address. Can anybody confirm?

Of course, there will be always be some exceptions...as HIGHLIGHTED BY OUR national press....u know...politcially correct type of reporting...

IIRC it is on award of scholarships. Half if not more than half of the students comes from upper average background, something like that.

Thank you. Guess you are right.
Will be interesting if there is data on background of secondary 1 students of all "top" schools.

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Then we talk about social mobility. How many social mobility stories have you heard in Singapore these days? There are not many because it is not easy to move up the social ladder in Singapore. If you happen to be born into a poor family. Good luck to you. The richer folks will get the best tuition from expensive private schools, while you only can rely on yourself to study hard. That is even before you enter into Primary school. This severly hampers your chance of doing well in PSLE, which happens to be the main fork in the education system in Singapore. If you to badly and go to Normal (T), you can forget about entering into a proper Uni in Singapore.

Sometimes, how much you have all depends on whose womb God chose to put you in.

Social mobility stories are not rare in Singapore, probably much more common versus other countries.

How about those President Scholars that are born in poor families? How about those Ministers/PSs that are born in poor families? How about those CEOs, entrepreneurs and top earners that are born in poor families? I can go on and on....

Perhaps some statistics will be useful......rather than "oh, i read of this guy from poor background and blah blah".
I could be wrong but I remember i read somewhere that there is a much higher proportion of students in "good" schools with landed/private properties address. Can anybody confirm?

Of course, there will be always be some exceptions...as HIGHLIGHTED BY OUR national press....u know...politcially correct type of reporting...

IIRC it is on award of scholarships. Half if not more than half of the students comes from upper average background, something like that.

Thank you. Guess you are right.
Will be interesting if there is data on background of secondary 1 students of all "top" schools.