Mad Race Competition in our Education System

I often hear of many complaints from fellow Singaporeans that the overwhelming influx of foreign talents, snatching away our jobs. Foreign students are also taking up places in our "better schools" at the expense of the Singaporeans. Recently, from personal experience, I begin to concur with these people. My son got his GCE "O" Level results last month. The education system & schools here is so competitive. My son scored 7"A1"s including CCA and distinction for chinese, still rejected by NJC, got posted to his 2nd choice Anderson JC. He scored B4 for his humanity, guess this is the reason for being rejected. Not sure if scoring straight "A"s these days is very common. His grades of 7"A1"s, include English, three pure Sciences, two Maths subjects, CCA(he took part in NCC and kayaking) as well as a distinction in Chinese. Although he did not do very well for his Combined Humanity subject (B4) as he was ill on the day of the paper and was not able to perform his best, he did score an A1 for this subject during his school preliminary exam. We went ahead to apply for Science course at NJC (National Junior College) and was rejected. We didn't even consider applying for Hwa Chong JC as we heard that a number of his China scholar schoolmates with 8-9 A1s are applying for Hwa Chong JC - we decided to avoid competing with these China scholars. We were utterly surprised and disappointed that we were rejected by NJC despite appealing to the vice principal. Failing to get his first choice, we then went to appeal for a place at St. Andrew JC. The staff at SAJC told me to wait (there are several hundreds of appeal cases in the queue), said that my son's result is very common among the appeal cases. Our appeal was not only rejected by St Andrew JC, we tried Nanyang JC, application was not successful - reason being no more vancancy left in this JC. I think the relevant authorities (MOE as well as the St Andrew JC) owe us an answer on the JC selection citeria so as to help other Singaporeans avoid the agony we faced recently. Are the top JCs places all taken up by IP (PSLE intake of the MOE Integrated Programme) or foreign students? What is most puzzling even there is vacancy issue with tier-2 JC like SAJC, presumably to be less competitive. What concern me most is that my son feels very de-moralised after the series of appeal rejections by these JCs. I remember during my time getting into Hwa Chong JC (1979) was not too difficult. We really hope that our children could complete their GCE "A" Level education in Singapore. Certainly, Singapore will forever be my home. With some many new and serious heartland issues in our country, the next GE is the time to express our unhappiness with the way our country is run. We need more opposition political party MPs in our parliament!