Such Character and Citizenship Education Conferences, organised and likely paid for using MOE funds, are not meant to inculcate “cultural intelligence” among students, if that is even a by-product. They are merely attempts to impart such national “values” through the proxy of students.
The population is tired of all this – first, the direct labelling of us as anti-immigration, and when that failed, using such indirect measures to define and educate the transgressors of “social norms”.
For the last time, most Singaporeans are not against foreign workers. We are against the poor definition of what constitutes foreign talent and the proper measurement of how such talent benefit our economy, beyond over-crowding our already congested national infrastructure. Full story
