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Primary 1 registration: Where alumni privilege and distance rules can accelerate inequality
ACS Primary’s move bucks this trend and provides an opportune moment to relook P1 registration criteria
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The Primary 1 registration exercise is currently driven by mechanisms that potentially reinforce pre-existing inequalities in society.
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Cameron Kheng, Vincent Chua and Eik Swee
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.
