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A mother was recently sentenced to jail for faking her home address to get her child into a primary school, raising the question - just how far will parents go to secure a spot in their school of choice and how can we tighten the process? Steven Chia and Tiffany Ang unpack the pressures some parents face with Primary 1 registration with Junda Ong, founder of SG Schooling and Assistant Professor Jacqueline Ho from Singapore Management University.
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Chapters
1. Primary 1 registration: Can we stop parents from gaming the system? (00:00:00)
2. How parents try to game the system (00:02:57)
3. Is the system flawed or are we too kiasu? (00:06:23)
4. Is jail a strong enough deterrence? (00:12:17)
5. When the “elite” schools are oversubscribed (00:14:32)
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