one up for our bilingual education!
Just imagine this. We have Singaporeans who have emigrated to Australia for a more balanced education for their children and a higher quality of life for the family. And we have many more who wish they could, or had done so, or plan to do so, or wish they have the guts to do so…..because they are unhappy with the rat race in the competitive local school system and work place. But today we read of a billionaire, Jim Rogers, former co-founder with George
Soros, of Quantum Fund, and his third wife and two kids becoming Singapore Permanent Residents, and trying to get their daughter into Nanyang Primary School, where she can learn Mandarin and be educated in the Singapore school system. In order to secure a place for their daughter in the school, believe it or not, they are taking the time to volunteer their services to the school, a sacrifice only desperate parents make to get a better chance for school entry. I mean he could just donate like some loose change from his pockets, say $150,000, to the school fund, and surely that would count for something (surely his one day is even more precious than $150,000).
I say give him citizenship because he is already acting like a true Singaporean!
Is Jim Rogers seeing something in our education system that we Singaporean gripers and complainers have missed seeing?
It should be comforting for many Singaporean parents who feel their children are trapped!
Add comment June 29th, 2008
