Many parents want their children to enter top schools. Because there are more parents wanting to apply to the top school than there are places in the school, the school has to make the parents "work" to get what they want – volunteering. The volunteering scheme was started to encourage parents to contribute and know the school better before enrolling their child. However, volunteering these days has deviated from the original purpose the scheme was set up for. Instead, parents are becoming more and more competent thus it would be hard to devise a means of fair selection for the pupils whose parents have performed equally well in their volunteer work (that is, to say, the very easy tasks). Therefore, most top schools like RGPS, Nanyang, Rosyth and CHS are asking parents to work on more challenging tasks, and for longer periods of time. .
We refer to Part 2 of the artifact. The title is "It's like applying for a job." I agree mainly because of the fact that volunteer work has become more and more competitive as the demand increases. Interested applicants have to submit proposals, projects and even go for interviews in order to stand a chance to get their child in the school of their choice. .
Surely this has gone beyond the meaning of "volunteer?" To volunteer is to freely undertake a task based on one's own will. However, going to such an extent of even proposals and interviews, is surely demanding far too much of the parents. They are just going to enroll their child into a school, not applying for a job. .
Capitalism Versus Communism – A Question of Fairness.
In this way of judging whether parents are suitable for enrolling their children into the school, volunteering has become a full-scale competition. This brings in the topic of Capitalism VS Communism. Capitalism (Survival of the fittest) is not always the best way to go. In fact, one might go so far as to say this system of selecting parents is unfair.
