The Online Citizen  Education: Charting our education reform
September 29 05:30 2012  By Richmond Lee -  It is strange in a
way how the primary education has been politicized for education
belongs to everyone. With the haze encapsulating our city state,
we are too fumbling with a flurry of hazy views to best proceed
with our education reform.  PLSE is the only current yardstick
for categorizing kids at the age of 12 into different academic
moulds. When I say ‘categorize’, I mean it in a very
condescending manner: I mean how fair is it to put a kid at a
tender age of 12 into a crucible to decide his or her success in
later life and force them to excel in subjects that are
considerably boring?  I empathize with myself when I was 12 I
had to go through this system. Thinking back, I was oblivious of
what PSLE had intended to bring. Throughout the six year primary
education, I was at the backseat of an express train riding
through for academic success and grades meant little to me. Or
rather I had little bearings