"Enrolling your child at this school comes with risks. As an alumnus, I want to share my traumatic experience as a Primary 4/5 student under the care of Principal Hanafi Asamore.
During the transition to Primary 5, all classes were reshuffled, separating me from a close friend. Over time, I noticed he became increasingly withdrawn and isolated, especially during recess. At 11 years old, I didn’t fully understand how to support and reach out to him. Eventually, he left school for homeschooling due to personal challenges.
What followed was deeply distressing. The teachers and principal seemed to scapegoat me for his departure. I was isolated, interrogated in private rooms, and coerced to write detailed reports about our interactions. When I couldn’t recall specifics, I was scolded. I suspect their fixation on my interactions with him stemmed partly from a time he visited my house, and we played console games like FIFA and Mortal Kombat (a game which contained fictional gore content that we both had the maturity to understand at the time, and were enjoying.) Although we both enjoyed it, and he even asked to play more, I later realized that this may have caused the school’s teachers to wrongly link it to his “trauma” struggles and eventual departure, given the game’s violent content, thus leading them to scapegoat me as his cause of departure.
Once, I was called to the principal’s office with two mutual friends, sat down, and expected a mature and cohesive discussion, but was instead greeted with hostility. The principal even said, “Did I say you could sit?”—leaving me shocked and powerless as a child.(Hanafi Asamore)
This continued during assemblies, where I was singled out, interrogated, and gaslit into believing I was at fault for his struggles. Years later, I reconnected with this friend through linkedin, who confirmed his personal challenges were unrelated to me and even said that he was shocked they were pinning the blame on me… according to him, he tried many times to explain to the school he had health issues(which led to him leaving the school) but the message never rlly got through.
This experience highlights the inhumane treatment I endured at Punggol Primary School as a literal 11 year old CHILD. I was gaslit into thinking that i caused trauma and hurt to another peer which led me feeling ostracised and hurt. Consider this a serious warning before enrolling your child into this mental asylum that causes children to feel like criminals. Punggol Primary is a literal hell to enroll your child if you want them to suffer long term mental stigmatism"
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