Primary 1 registration: Where alumni privilege and distance rules can accelerate inequality
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- 04 May 2023
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The Primary 1 registration exercise is currently driven by mechanisms that potentially reinforce pre-existing inequalities in society. PHOTO: ST FILE
ACS Primary’s move bucks this trend and provides an opportune moment to relook P1 registration criteria. In the fairest possible world where allocations are based purely on chance, students would be assigned to their primary schools through a random process of balloting.
Whether “elite” or “neighbourhood”, all primary schools would comprise first-year students from across the social spectrum, rich or poor, near or far, and regardless of race. Read More…
