MOE’s Initiatives That Aim To Keep Children In School
The Ministry of Education (MOE) is trying its best to keep students in school. For the year 2009, the drop out rate is only 1.5 percent. MOE hopes to keep it that way until next year.
Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education Masagos Zulkifli, as reported in Channel News Asia, tells us that Singapore’s drop out rate for 2009 is quite low compared to that of the other countries that he has visited. Despite the fact that Singapore is better off than many countries when it comes to keeping students in school, the MOE is still trying its best by reviewing all current programmes.
Currently, the ministry supports schools that have a poor school attendance rate. Additional funding is given to them so they can have more resources to develop programmes that will make their students excited about school.
I think it’s great that the MOE is supporting schools that have a high drop out rate. Schools need to be creative in developing supplementary programmes that will be very appealing to their students. But before schools start developing or creating supplementary programs, they should first try to determine the primary reason why students drop out of school.
What do you think are the reasons why students drop out of school? What types of programmes do you think will help keep them in school?
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i think kids drop out because of the pressure and the demands of the school’s curriculum.
schools for some reason, just to say they’re ahead of the others UPGRADE the curriculum which end up putting the stress on the kids AND parents. thing is, despite the modernization of the world and the so-called need to keep up with today’s fast paced society—the brains of the kids/teens can only take as much as it can depending on their ages. let the 3 & 4 yr olds enjoy BEING a child and not stress them on learning to spell and do math. That stage will come. Let the young teens have their weekends without the need to open their books just because.
a student that looks forward to going to school will learn more than a student that just HAS TO in order to please and/or compete with others.
School is a learning place and not a wrestling match for the brains.