She could have saved more time by not turning up but I guess she didn't know. When my daughters gets a letter like this they read and thought if they don't show up they don't get the money. I told them the letter didn't say that. Read carefully. It was worded to get them to appear for the ceremony. You may have to wait for quite a long time but eventually the cheque will be sent to your school.
"She has the drive and will. I am sure she will do well!"
I hope so. Her chances are better than the lazy people but our society no longer makes it easier to climb the ladder. The game has changed. Last night, I saw the math questions my younger daughter had to do. They were unreasonably tough but many in her class have tuition teachers. I don't believe this under privileged girl would have such help. It is not a level playing field.
And I don't believe all the classes get to train with those tough questions. It is only for the top class. So the gap between them and the rest widens. Outside school an analogous dynamic is going on.
So we should become more socialist then? No. We must begin my going deeper to reexamine our ideology. That bloody no-name ideology because it lacks a label is hard to pin down. Pragmatism is not an ideology. It is only its evidence.
In the end most of my 'likes' go to PAP MPs and Ministers on Facebook but I am also very angry with their policies. They are not getting my vote and in this business it is the vote that counts. Just idiotic. How did we arrive at such circumstance?
The no-name ideology is hypocritic and fascist, vaunting pragmatism and meritocracy, a doubletalk to mask their mutual back scratching cronyism and nepotism.
ReplyDeleteFor their hypocrisy, one do not have to look further than the PA, a supposedly non-partisan institution funded by the government, that is openly promoting the interests of the ruling party. Or the SPH, a PAP propaganda machine masquerading as the nation-building press where only very senior members of the party are appointed to take charge. I see only hypocrisy when one can lose tens or perhaps hundreds of billions and still in the job because of the claimed meritocracy. (Presumably less meritorious persons cannot be trusted with the funds.)