Boon Lay Secondary School has been dividing classes by their students' co-curricular activities since 2017. And Education Minister Ong Ye Kung found out first-hand the impact this"unorthodox" system is having on its students when he visited the school.
"All the other Normal students immediately felt like they were singled out," said Mr Ong."Now, the teacher would say, 'NCC, keep quiet!', and the Normal stream students would feel okay." NCC stands for National Cadet Corps. Classes are further grouped into three clusters: uniformed groups, performing arts, and sports and clubs. Students attend camps and overseas trips with their clusters, which encourages mixing for students in gender-or ethnicity-specific CCAs, such as The Boys' Brigade and Malay dance.Now, I have worked with people from the other streams. We gain knowledge and build character and leadership together. I think this has really helped me step out of my comfort zone.
Secondary 4 Normal student Hafiz B Immran, who is in NCC, said he used to mix with only students in his stream before classes were reorganised - partly because he was shy, but also because he was afraid others would look down on him.
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