Nostalgia.

It�s a terrible feeling to know that you will be leaving a college which holds so much memories in 2 years� times, only to return in a month to find it completely transformed. Come 2005, and hail to communism, the fundamental value of The Chinese High School touted by alumni in khaki shorts. Hwa Chong�s impending merger with them will be bringing so many reforms � that she can be considered as dead rather than regenerated.

Yellow tee-shirts and red shorts?

But fashion will not be the highlight when the Upper Sec and JC Educational Review findings raze down the old rote-learning habits and the exam centralized educational system. It is the initial results of the through-train system that will be taking up most of the press space. Nonetheless, there is never a 100% perfect and satisfied education system � we have changed it again and again; the last major one being 1979, with Goh Keng Swee�s controversial introduction of SAP among many others. Thus, the through-train system will have bound to throw up more personal, administration and even social problems.

One can be a Rafflesian, Hwa Chongian, Anglo Chinese boys for his entire educational career unless they desire to leave their comfort zones. The through train system has been recognized as being the new direction for GEP-potential students to essentially cope with more difficult syllabi at a younger age. This will only bring about the problem of lesser interaction between elites since the Gifted Education Branch, the glue to all gifted students, would be dissolved. Thus the idea of loyalty to his school will be even stronger. Furthermore, this will also contradict the idea of meritocracy in the educational system even more because a student from a primary or secondary school not part of this family of institutions would find fewer benefits to join in face of a mountain of privileges awaiting those who are. This is where the National Junior College through train system comes in to save students of neither families in the name of pure meritocracy. Then there are some schools who insist that they will offer the traditional way � 4 years of �O� levels and then you will be booted to a junior college to complete the �A� Level courses.

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