This is not new! With new technology of smartphones and all kinds of apps available to us these days, Secondary School are also recommending students to use WhatsApp for discussing school work with each other. What's more the app is FREE! However, you have to have a smartphone and data plan to go with it in order to be able to used the WhatsApp. This is not provided by the school. Funny! This can be really costly to parents. Smartphones these days don't come cheap. A second hand smartphone can cost you few hundred bucks. Not forgetting that you need to have data plans in order to get connected to WhatsApp. The cheapest data plan would cost about $30.00 but then it only have 100MB of local data. These can be used up pretty fast. An example of Youth Plan by Singtel
I find this impossible to accept! When I went online in search of approved MOE school platform, I came to realize that I have been outdated with this. Other parents have also raised this issue to MOE. Sad to realize that MOE replied that they allow school these days to decide on the platform to be used which means it is out of their hands and that is how WhatsApp come into picture. Read this replies from others who have raised to MOE about the above issue HERE
Like as if it is not stressful enough that things are getting more expensive and everybody is trying to keep a close eye on what is spent these days and school is adding expenses like this to parents. No wonder Singapore is getting so tensed up with tons of upset people.
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