Are young people sufficiently engaged in sports? If not, what's stopping them? Also, are schools too focused on winning medals, at the expense of allowing more students to take part in sports?
Singaporean parents' mindset is skewed towards academic excellence to the exclusion of everything else. Even society, as a whole, deems participation in sports, games and co-curricular activities (CCAs) as an adjunct to doing well in studies...
Unless there is a change in the mindset of parents and society, the impetus and directional bias towards active involvement in healthy physical activities can only be, at best, a token gesture.
- Ho Kong Loon
Parents play a part too. Parents will think of whether their kids have a better chance of entering a secondary school by using CCA through Direct School Admission.
Fun? It's not in the dictionary of most parents.
- Tiffany Lim
Schools conduct trials for sports CCAs and offer them to selected students... Once a kid is rejected, he is made to feel he is not cut out to do sports. It is then hard to tell him that sports is good for him.
- Puay Ai Koh
Our education system is getting more and more demanding, in the sense that students have insufficient time to really try a sport.
Furthermore, sports CCAs accept only the cream of the crop, depriving other students of the opportunity to try the sports they want.
Maybe it's time for reform.
- Ng Jun Jie
To drive up participation in sports among the young, make sports more fun with less emphasis on competition.
Young people should be offered more opportunities to participate in "competitive" sports without screening on the basis of talent and ability.
- Gabriel Chia
Schools should not be judged only on the number of medals they win, but also on the number of children they introduce to sports for health purposes and also to teach them sportsmanship.
- Khor Wee Siong
We cannot outsource parenting to schools. Parents must first encourage their children to participate in sports...
Next is peer pressure that encourages children to participate.
- Calvin Yong
Singaporean parents' mindset is skewed towards academic excellence to the exclusion of everything else. Even society, as a whole, deems participation in sports, games and co-curricular activities (CCAs) as an adjunct to doing well in studies...
Unless there is a change in the mindset of parents and society, the impetus and directional bias towards active involvement in healthy physical activities can only be, at best, a token gesture.
- Ho Kong Loon
Parents play a part too. Parents will think of whether their kids have a better chance of entering a secondary school by using CCA through Direct School Admission.
Fun? It's not in the dictionary of most parents.
- Tiffany Lim
Schools conduct trials for sports CCAs and offer them to selected students... Once a kid is rejected, he is made to feel he is not cut out to do sports. It is then hard to tell him that sports is good for him.
- Puay Ai Koh
Our education system is getting more and more demanding, in the sense that students have insufficient time to really try a sport.
Furthermore, sports CCAs accept only the cream of the crop, depriving other students of the opportunity to try the sports they want.
Maybe it's time for reform.
- Ng Jun Jie
To drive up participation in sports among the young, make sports more fun with less emphasis on competition.
Young people should be offered more opportunities to participate in "competitive" sports without screening on the basis of talent and ability.
- Gabriel Chia
Schools should not be judged only on the number of medals they win, but also on the number of children they introduce to sports for health purposes and also to teach them sportsmanship.
- Khor Wee Siong
We cannot outsource parenting to schools. Parents must first encourage their children to participate in sports...
Next is peer pressure that encourages children to participate.
- Calvin Yong
