FOR quite some time now, admission into primary schools (and possibly kindergartens) has had a points system.
This system favours those candidates who have a sibling studying (add 20 points) or who has studied (add 10 points) in the same school.
The point system also favours first-born children (add five points).
This system obviously and unfairly discriminates against the second-born child.
More so in particular, it discriminates against those second-born with a first-born sibling of a different sex when applying to boys-only or girls-only schools.
Indeed it discriminates against all those later-born boys or girls with elders all of different sex to them.
That this is allowed to happen and is happening every day is a sad testimony to the unhealthy state of our school admissions system.