When 12-year-olds’ reflection in class revolves around PSLE
Their anxiety is a wake-up call for parents to ensure our affection for our children does not rise and fall with their exam marks.
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Anxious parents still see top scores as the surest way into elite secondary schools that they view, rightly or wrongly, as providing a better education, says the writer.
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Michelle Lee
My daughter is in Primary 6 this year and, along with a whole cohort of 12-year-olds, is facing the fork in the road that the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) represents.
Her teachers recently had the class write short reflections in response to prompts like “How have you been feeling lately?” and “How would you like your parents to support you?”