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  • Madrasah Students Are More Than Just Future Religious Teachers

    Madrasah Students Are More Than Just Future Religious Teachers

    It’s funny when you hear people saying that madrasah students will eventually become religious teachers or even become jobless. The reality is somewhat different. Most madrasah graduates today are professionals in so many different fields. Many are graduates of top universities locally and globally, specializing in fields within the sciences and humanities. Their parents are in high positions in diverse sectors of the Singaporean economy (just for the record: my two daughters are in two different madrasahs).

    So the next time you encounter a madrasah student, do ask the kid in tudung or songkok what he/she wants to be someday. You will be surprised that their dreams are no different from any ordinary student in secular schools. Let’s keep our minds open and our biases closed.

     

    Source: Khairudin Aljunied

  • Primary School Boy: I Wish To Be Smartphone So My Parents Will Love Me More

    Primary School Boy: I Wish To Be Smartphone So My Parents Will Love Me More

    <Credits to Joanne>

    A teacher after the dinner she started checking homework done by the students. Her husband is strolling around with a smart phone playing his favourite game ‘Candy Crush Saga’. When reading the last note, the wife starts crying with silent tears.

    Her husband saw this and asked, ‘Why are you crying dear? What happened?’

    Wife: ‘Yesterday I gave homework to my 1st Standard students, to write something on topic -My Wish-.

    ’Husband: ‘OK, but why are you crying?

    ’Wife: ‘Today while checking the last note, it makes me crying.

    ’Husband curiously: ‘What’s written in the note that makes you crying?

    ’Wife: ‘Listen. My wish is to become a smart phone. My parents love smart phone very much.

    They care smart phone so much that sometimes they forget to care me.When my father comes from office tired, he has time for smart phone but not for me. When my parents are doing some important work and smart phone is ringing, within single ring they attend the phone, but not me even…even if I am crying.

    They play games on their smart phones not with me.When they are talking to someone on their smart phone, they never listen to me even if I am telling something important. So, my wish is to become a smart phone.

    After listening the note husband got emotional and asked the wife, ‘who wrote this?’. Wife: ‘Our son’.

    Gadgets are beneficial, but they are for our ease not to cease the love amongst family and loved ones.

    Children see and feel everything what happens with & around them. Things get imprinted on their mind with an everlasting effect. Let’s take due care, so that they do not grow with any false impressions.

     

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

     

  • Nizam Ismail: Malay Students Performing Poorer Compared To Others,Widening Gap Needs To Be Addressed

    Nizam Ismail: Malay Students Performing Poorer Compared To Others,Widening Gap Needs To Be Addressed

    MOE’s release of educational performance of students from 2005-2014 reveal some alarming trends for Malay students, especially at PSLE level.

    The gaps between Malay students and other communities at PSLE is *widening*, for Science, Maths and English. There is a discernible trend of *worsening* performance year on year. And this is despite at least 3 decades of intervention through Mendaki.

    Only 60% of Malay students pass Maths (compared to 85.3% for the national benchmark). In other words, we have not progressed since 2005 (59.7%)

    And for Science, only 70% of Malay students pass, compared to 90% for the national benchmark). This figure of 70% is worse than 2005 (76.8%)

    What’s worrying are the trend lines of worsening performance, especially in Science.

    I had raised this point 3 years ago. Our community-based educational intervention program to Mendaki does NOT work. The results speak for themselves.

    We need to take a national approach towards addressing educational gaps. A holistic and aggressive approach target at lower socio-economic income groups (where Malay families are over-represented). We want all communities to do well.

    Why perpetuate a model that has clearly not yielded results – despite millions of dollars of community funding through MBMF?

    We simply cannot afford to let the slide continue or worsen.

    Lest we become more marginalized.

    Sampai bila?

     

    Source: Nizam Ismail in Suara Melayu Singapura.

  • Singapore Education Sytem Produces “Sheeps” Who Cannot Think And Follow Blindly

    Singapore Education Sytem Produces “Sheeps” Who Cannot Think And Follow Blindly

    <Facebook post by Tan Kin Lian>

    The education system of the PAP has produced many people who cannot think but will follow their leaders blindly.

    If the leader introduces any stupid measure and tell them that this is to prevent terrorism or national defense, they will believe it it blindly and defend the measure totally. It does not matter that the measure is ineffective or wasteful.

    These people cannot judge whether the money is spend correctly. It is easy to fool them. They cannot think and are gullible. This is due to brainwashing by the mainstream media.

    The remind me of the sheep in the novel, Animal Farm.

     

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • Schools Step Up Measures To Protect Students From Haze

    Schools Step Up Measures To Protect Students From Haze

    A number of schools have cancelled or moved outdoor activities indoors as the haze situation in Singapore worsens.

    At Ang Mo Kio Secondary School, physical education classes were moved into the indoor sports hall when the school reopened yesterday after the September week-long holidays.

    Principal Abdul Mannan said the school’s N-level cohort started examinations yesterday in air-conditioned classrooms to shield them from the haze. The school also has air purifiers on standby if the air quality deteriorates further.

    Mr Mannan said: “We will try to allocate them to classes with a large number of students who have respiratory issues.”

    Many other schools will be taking similar precautions. Education Ministry guidelines state that schools should minimise outdoor activities when air quality is in the unhealthy range, and stop all physical activity when it enters the very unhealthy range.

    Air quality is at very unhealthy levels when the 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) falls between 201 and 300.

    Schools say they are on alert for when the haze hits such levels.

    “We are all prepared – we have masks ready for the kids and we have air purifiers,” said Mrs Ruby Seah, principal of the AWWA School for students with special needs.

    “If the haze gets worse, we will have to make use of all the air-conditioned rooms, including the meeting rooms.”

    At 9pm yesterday, the 24-hour PSI was between 133 and 166. The unhealthy range is 101-200.

    Raffles Medical Group, which runs a string of general practitioner clinics, said there has been a 10 to 20 per cent spike in the number of patients with haze-related conditions such as eye or throat irritation.

    “The whole spectrum from young children to the elderly are affected,” said Dr Michael Lee, deputy medical director at Raffles Medical.

    “The group expects to see more patients seeking treatment in the coming weeks if the haze continues to worsen.”

    Pharmacy chains also reported an increase in N95 face mask sales compared with previous months, but said they are unlikely to face a shortage.

    Guardian Pharmacy said it has seen a 20 per cent increase in mask sales during the past two weeks, while a Watsons spokesman said its mask sales have gone up by more than 80 per cent.

    NTUC Health’s Unity Pharmacy has seen a tenfold increase in the sale of N95 masks, said sales director for wholesale and housebrand Andy Wan.

    “In addition, we are also stocking up on other haze-related items such as eye drops, inhalers and medication to relieve throat irritation,” he said.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com