Primary school

Hi mummies, as society emerging where parents are moving house to have a heads up in settling for a better primary school for your kids. Just wondering what are your thoughts on that? For me personally, we are staying in a non-mature BTO estate with alot of young parents and young children around, and we really like the environment here, it’s safe and we have all necessity, supermarket, clinics, neighbourhood school. Further more we can even survive on one person income if needed, and we can fully pay our BTO by 45 years old which no liabilities at a young age, which i feel is a win. We can afford a private property but I feel that it will be an added stress where we need to work harder, we can’t even quit if we want a break if it’s a job we hate and if it affects our mental health etc, so we don’t feel the need to because both my husband and I are simple and contented in life and our joint income is very sufficient for us to take care of our boy, go travel and go for enrichment class etc. Am i being selfish if I don’t follow the social trend to send my kid to a good school? But i feel it is overrated in the society though. Definitely a debating topic, and i feel it is “choose what is right for you and your family.” What do you think? #advicepls

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Having taught in one of the "good" primary schools for a while, I find that the main difference lies in the students and parents, not so much of the school. Generally, parents who send their kids to such schools would also have a certain lvl of expectation of their kids, and put in the corresponding amount of effort in their academics. I've heard of P1 kids having extra lessons from Mon to Sun. Fairly sure that's not what I want my kid to do. Building social skills from a young age is more impt than academic skills. Not to say tt academic isn't important, but being good with people goes way further than being good with books.

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