Every morning, thousands of Malaysian students cross the Causeway in the familiar yellow school buses to go to schools in Singapore, partcularly in Woodlands Town.
Their day starts as early as 4am as they need to beat the traffic congestion.
For this they are called "Incredible Kids" "Sleepy Kids" or the "Pitiful Kids".
Woodlands residents called them "the 4am kids".
It is usual to see the children walk a kilometre to the Singapore side checkpoint whenever their school buses are caught in the traffic jams.
The reason parents do this is for a better education system in Singapore where English is the teaching language. They endure the high school fee whilst the kids have to endure the extra travelling time to school and often reaching home at 8 pm.
Fast forward 20 years on. These students are now parents themselves. Many stayed and work in Singapore. Those who prefered to remain in Johor Bahru now send their children to the same schools they attended as kids. History is repeating itself.
The Johor State Assembly has revealed that 15,000 students from Johor study in schools in Singapore.
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