The MOE announced that there will not be PSLE aggregate score from 2021. That means those students in P1 this year, will not have a T score after they sit for PSLE. Instead of having numbers like 223, 236, 242, 268 etc. that acted like a hot iron branding marked onto cattle but this cattle is a Human cub; the new policy will do away with numbers and will introduce grading system in terms of bands like As, Bs, Cs. Details to be elaborated but no parents I know jumped for joy because everyone is hesitant. Everyone feels that the aggregate just turned invisible but it will still be there. Some thinks this invisible aggregate thingy might be even worse as parents can't gauge how their kids are faring against traditional national standards. Plus they also wonder how then would the Secondary Schools select. That's how little trust and faith Parents have become. There's no letting up with the obsession in academic "success", at least not at this moment.
Well, there's still five more years for this well-intended policy to mature and take shape so let's see how to roll with it.
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