Parents have role to play in children's educational success
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SINGAPORE: Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports Halimah Yacob has stressed the important role parents play in ensuring their children's success in education.
Speaking at a community event on Saturday, Mdm Halimah also lauded the Indian community for working together to reach out to needy students.
The Tamils Representative Council, Singapore Indian Education Trust, and Indian self-help group SINDA (Singapore Indian Development Association) have been pooling their resources to reach out to poor families since 2002.
80 students from low income families received bursaries of up to S$120 each at a ceremony on Saturday morning.
Next year, 2,000 bursaries worth more than S$1 million are expected to be distributed.
Some 400 students also received their "Back To School" kits worth over S$100 each to help them prepare for school next year. The kit consists of a school bag, sports water bottle, stationery, vouchers and shoes.
Mdm Halimah said: "Despite all this support, whether it's bursaries, back to school bags and so on, if parents are not interested, (if) they don't take a keen interest, don't participate in their children's education, it will have a very minimal impact.
"I hope that parents will continue to give strong support to their children in the Indian community so that the Indian community can continue to do better and better."
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as in, parents go to sch together with the children?
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not only that, they even have a bigger role to prevent them from getting into the gallows....
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not every parent is a dictator
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is this hinting tt indian parents not doing their job?
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its sad to see some parents driving around and searching high low for their children not coming home ...they drive and look erratically throughout hawker centres, downtown east....changi airports....everywhere..eyes already tired and weary over a hard day's work....mind still boggling where their children are in the night....called frens but not with them....worrying they do somehting foolish....