P and I grabbed a copy of the “TODAY” newspaper while on the way to work two days ago, and were pleasantly surprised to read that one of the Ministers commented that the extremely fine differentiation of students’ grades at PSLE should be replaced with grade bands just like at the “O” levels.
I got so excited, I looked up and congratulated P. He has been heard! His suggestion did not go into a black hole! He mused that the politicians will probably try to claim credit for the idea but I told him that at least our children will benefit from the change, even if credit is not given to P.
You see, many months ago, we were talking about the fine differentiation of PSLE scores back at a roundtable discussion with the opposition party. P also wrote into the Forum about this.
See his letter “Keep PSLE but drop T-score” -
This was published on 3 October 2012.
On 29 October 2012, we read this -
This has generated quite a lot of buzz and there was another article on the refinement of the PSLE..
P said he will save the articles to show our children that it is possible to make a difference. 
On behalf of the children, I thank him for putting the effort to write in to the papers (each letter requires at least 2 hours of crafting and fine-tuning before he deems it concise and ‘punchy’ enough.)
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