![]() They simply had no choice!Ĭheck out PART 1, PART 3 and PART 4 if you haven’t!Īnyway, back to my topic on defunct schools. Therefore it was very common for students to keep changing schools as a result of school closures in the past, so don’t be taken aback by people who have attended numerous schools back then. As the existing children got older, the number of schooling kids in the estate reduced (since no one dared to procreate anymore). Thus, the enrolment in most neighbourhood (or “estate”) schools started declining which subsequently forced them to close. Then came the 1970s-1980 when the Stop at Two programme was introduced to control the population growth in Singapore. The programme pushed for small nuclear families and penalised couples for having more than three children (no priority given in school registration to third and subsequent kids of parents who had not been sterilised before the age of 40). Remember the post World-War II baby boom during the late 1940s to 1950s? The sudden increase in population called for more schools to be built then (which makes sense, considering that most of these closed schools were built in the late 1950s-60s when most of the children were ready to be schooled) and some even had insufficient vacancies. population shift, ageing facilities etc.) but I failed to mention one crucial point. In my previous entry, I mentioned some causes that could have led to the closure of most schools (e.g. ![]() Since there are many more schools that I did not cover previously, I thought I should do a follow-up post to try and include as many defunct schools as possible including the 8 latest victims. It’s pretty sad as some of these schools were once a merging party not long ago, and now they have to face it again. This post has come earlier than planned because of the recent news about the merger of 8 secondary schools. ![]() WARNING: This post requires high amount of bandwidth! Wi-Fi connection advised. ![]()
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