Spore also failed in terms of co curriculum activities.

They force students to take up CCA, and made pass or fail grading.

U know what CCA we got in SMK ? Is called ponteng sekolah, venue for the activities is at CC / mamak / kopitiam / someone's house

It’s not about migration. It’s about the best choice of education today.

There is a difference between private or international schools. International schools tends to be more expensive if they are the reputable ones. Private schools are more cheaper but some are just operating from shop lots. However, the syllabus are usually the same as IGCSE seems to be the most popular one unless they follow US system which some international school does but I believe most private or international schools follow IGCSE.

Why go to such schools and not SRJKC or SRK? SRK problem, I think no need to write here everyone already know. The problem extends to most SK today except for some sekolah cemerlang. The old reputable SK like VI, St. John, etc. are no longer the best anymore as they are now not much different from any SK.

As for reasons why parents are opting out from SRJKC, the main reason is overcrowding. Today most classes have 40 to more than 50 kids. The problem of SRJKC since the beginning is either you swim or sink. If your child are not those who can follow their style of teaching, they will be left behind and today it is worse as the classes are too big for the teachers to teach and ensure every kid understand. A lot of parents are also beginning to understand that having tons of homework might not be suitable for their kids as it makes them hate learning and they are not really learning anything real.

It is the same with Chinese secondary independent schools. Most parents know their kids won’t do well in such schools by standards 6 if they barely survive SRJKC. There’s no point sending them to such schools knowing they will only sink further. So the other choice is SK which have tons of problems today.

So, parents are beginning to send their kids to private or international school today as they are providing the ONLY best choice available especially in Klang Valley. Some are even sending their children to primary international or private schools because they want them to get themselves familiar with a system only

So you send to private or international?

That is what I was told. IGCSE is more suitable for kids than our national syllabus

I think that’s why kids love the syllabus more as it give them more flexibility

This point interests me, because I keep hearing comments about how "Malaysia's secondary school syllabus has been watered down", and I am actually wondering how true that statement really is.

I have been exposed to both the SPM and Cambridge GCE syllabuses before, having done my secondary school both in Malaysia and Singapore in the early-1990's:
1. I took Malaysia's Matematik Tambahan and Singapore's Additional Mathematics textbooks and past year papers (i.e. SPM vs. GCE 'O' Levels), and laid them side-by-side. The syllabus was almost exactly the same.
2. SPM Biology required students to study most of the bones in the human body. Singapore's G.C.E 'O' Level Biology covered only four (4) bones on the arm.
(I am aware that G.C.E. and IGCSE are not the same thing, but I am guessing that they should be at least comparable in standard.)

Does anyone have any concrete data and information to support or debunk the claim that Malaysia's secondary school syllabus has really been watered down, at least for Mathematics and Sciences? Note that I am referring to the syllabus content and level of difficulty, not the marking scheme (which is another big topic for debate) or the quality of teaching (which is highly-dependent on individual schools and teachers).
I agree with the first part about the optimum combination being SJK©+SKJK©. When I was doing my senior high school in Singapore, one of my schoolmates was ex-Catholic High School PJ. He was winning Chinese essay awards, trouncing his Singaporean classmates, and his English was strong enough to keep up with the Singapore standards.

Yup

Notice this too

Kids from national school is way more competitive and adaptable to challenging environment

Whereas kids from private&international school seem more lazy, entitled and expect employers/landlord to cater to them

Lmao sohai look at the rare successful national school kids and compare with unsuccessful international/private school kids.

Those matgian/rempits/ahbengs from national school is more competitive meh? Those top A Levels and internationally recognized kids from international schools more lazy meh?

That's why our national school syllabus is dumb because the results is people like you lol.

Initially I enrolled my kids to SRJKC.

Math was great, English and BM..... kids gave the correct answers, will be marked wrong. I don't need to mention further. Text book and work book, like new.

Switch to private, best decision ever. Then high school they managed to get into a reputable intl school. Thanks God.

That is precisely what I mean. The problem is not because the standard of the SRJK© syllabus and content is low, it's actually quite high. The problem is the effectiveness in execution and the quality of the teachers.

If we took the same syllabus content and level of difficulty, and improved the following:
1. Textbooks and Activity Books
2. Teaching quality and effectiveness
would it change the picture?

Did that, went to headmaster and even to MP. At the discretion of Moe la.

Dem frustrated. Kids always believed teachers were right. No need to say further, later kena kecam.

Some people thinks we purposely wanted to send kids to private and intl schools ? Those without kid, or those never check their homework or exam papers, take a step back and check. This is the reality.

SRK and SMK student here.
My experience?? Primary school, math teacher gone for 2 months. I honestly forgot the reason. No replacement for 2 months. Only a stand in teacher. One that come sit there wtaching us and letting us doing what we want.
Secondary school. Geography teacher one plus month bersalin. No replacement.
And that's not the worse. I still remember clearly. During form 2. Almost 2 months (or is it 3. Can't even remember) no math teacher again. Iirc coz teacher got transferred.

I went to study in Australia, I found that they did not have a single tution. Teachers focus on the school curriculum no tution bullshit.