After weighing his daughter's school bag and finding it to be heavier than a 5kg sack of rice, one astounded father wrote in to The Straits Times Forum page, lamenting that school bags were getting heavier despite technology.
A mother of a 13-year-old is reportedly livid after her daughter was told by her school district to get a breast reduction in order to stop being bullied.
Parents of Methodist Girls' School (MGS) students will need to pay higher school fees from next year - $335 a month. School fees are now about $295 a month.
This is due to a rise in operating costs, said MGS principal Shirleen Ong.
Madam Qhameira Ani’s 10-year-old son, Muhammad Shari Fendy, had come home on May 14 with a swollen lip and an extracted tooth after seeing the school's dental therapist.
LOWER secondary students will soon have something to cheer about. If a proposal to scrap their semestral examinations for humanities subjects goes through, that is.