Tailored to the particular child’s needs, home-schooling is considered by many parents to be the best option – even in Singapore.
The time comes when all parents have to begin thinking of their child’s schooling. For many, school itself is not the choice. Rather, which school it’s going to be is. For a growing minority in Singapore, however, choosing to go to school at all is also a matter for deliberation.
Ten years ago when I first started educating my children more formally at home, it was a bit of a curiosity. Well known for its hot-house education system that produced top scholars who could hold their heads high in institutions all over the world, Singapore Tailored to the particular child’s needs, home-schooling is considered by many parents to be the best option – even in Singapore. By Laotse Sacker was a good bet for those parents who wanted their children to do well academically. Why risk all that simply to mollycoddle your child at home with your half-baked ideas about what childhood is, what school is, what society is, etc.?
