Most Singaporeans have cheered the latest move to scrap streaming and improve social mixing in secondary schools, but some have voiced concerns that a seemingly privileged group of schools have been left out of the picture.
The Integrated Programme (IP) schools, which allow students to skip the O levels and go straight to their A levels or International Baccalaureate, along with schools which take in only Express stream students, will be largely untouched by the changes.
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