Taken from the Jan 4 edition of the Straits Times:
ANGLO-CHINESE School (Independent) has gone co-ed.
From this year, girls who have finished Secondary 4 will be admitted at Year 5 of the school's six-year programme leading to an International Baccalaureate (IB).
About half of the new intake of 140, comprising only Year 5-ers, were girls. Principal Ong Teck Chin said this was a pleasant surprise. He was all praise for the girls' 'deterrent effect' on bad behaviour and their ability to 'enrich student life'.
Ian Cheong, 16, one of the boys in the programme, said girls would teach the boys to grow up. 'Usually I just spout my mouth off. I think they'll make me more gentlemanly,' he said.
Dance studios, more female toilets and netball courts are in the midst of being completed.
Even the school motto has been adapted for Year 5 and Year 6 students - from 'A scholar, officer and gentleman' to 'A scholar, leader and global citizen'.
Still, on the first day of school yesterday, many girls were intimidated that they were a minority of 70 in the Year 5 cohort of about 360. Groups of boys and girls sat at separate tables during recess.
But the girls believe everyone will warm up in time. Bethel Chan, 16, said: 'Hopefully, we'll all surprise the boys a bit.'
DAWN LIM
Well, I guess everyone is just dying to get into ACS(I). What to do? After all, we are truly the best there is isn't it? Well, it's good to share the goodies of ACS(I) with girls .... an all-rounded education for a larger sector of the population can only be good for Singapore as a whole ...
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