Teenage riot!
3,703 karma · joined November 2, 2013
As for the educational system, university is very expensive. Schools are free and yes they claim to be very good on academic scores. What they don’t tell you is they still do caning in public schools (boys only). Still stuck in the fifties. The educational system largely focuses on academic strength and if you are not academically strong you get put into a second tier system very quickly. Kids as young as 8 have exams and suffer from exam stress early in their life.
So yes, Singapore is an iron fisted, draconian police state, not much better than their Chinese neighbours.
Source: I live here.