RA's Classes 2010

Children are like a blank piece of paper. It's up to us to fill it with colours and now they are tainted with content that they will only know ten years down the road. I'm sure that they are unable to handle it and will do some silly stuff.

Tainted?? that's too strong a word to use since most of the children are seeing the adult material for the first time in their lives (i hope). as such, they are too innocent to know what is really going on. i think they will feel curious more than anything else and would want to know more about it. this is where we, as adults, should use this golden opportunity to educate them about sexuality. I believe that one is never "too young" to learn about sexuality since they will inevitably learn it at some stage in their lives. Educating children properly at a young age will in fact prevent a lot of misconceptions about sexuality which could lead to "preventable" social problems like teenage pregnancy etc

Personally, I think that Singapore's education system and government's schemes have failed to retain our talents. Singapore has tried to create common identity through the pledge taking and also tried to create common space in order to root talents to Singapore. However, it is still not enough to retain them. It is really not about the relax lifestyle, lesser working hours and cheaper housing that overseas countries provide that pulls our talents away, even though i still believe that they would still influence talents' decision in some way or another, but the main crucial reasons why talents are leaving are that Singapore clearly lacks of career opportunities and entrepreneur platforms that talents require. Therefore, rather than competing with other Singaporeans in the small Singapore market, they would rather seek opportunities in a bigger market overseas. Singapore must act fast to minimize the brain drain situation as i believe attracting foreign talents is a short term solution and it brings about social distress. One example of social distress that cause by foreign talents is that, often these foreign talents often brought along their bad habits from their native counties back to Singapore and this causes racial disharmony. For example, some China foreign immigrants might bring along the habit of splitting to Singapore and because they are Chinese, other races would have the assumption that it is Singaporeans Chinese who did it and these create social tensions. (A poor example but.. hope you guys get the idea) Therefore, in conclusion, i believe that the step Government should take is to provide more career opportunities and to further strengthen the sense of belonging of Singaporeans. It is because China, a country that has been suffering brain drain from the early 1900s is enjoying brain gain in recent years due to the fact that the Chinese Government has put effort in providing entrepreneur platforms for its overseas talents.

Currently,more immigrants are entering singapore.It is useful in welcoming these immigrants as they contribute to the labour force.They can make the labour force in singapore more productive and skilled.On the other side,allowing more immigrants can mean that locals may lose their jobs.Locals may be disadvantaged.This may anger the locals.Immigration is a double-edged sword.

I personally think that Singapore must do something abt the immigrant problem. I do agree that the next generation might be facing big problems because of immigrants coming over to Singapore. Then Singapore might be separated between locals and foreigners. TR said that ''allowed to partake in the economic gains made by the nation without reciprocating.'' Is rather true because these immigrants just come here and take but nt giving back to Singapore. Luclily, the government has implemented the citizenship test.I hope it works

"The short-sighted immigration policies of the PAP will eventually create social tension between locals and foreigners, erode the sense of belonging among native Singaporeans to their country leading to a massive exodus and eventually the downfall of Singapore." I wonder if this is going to happen