"While watching TV is a favourite pastime for many children, it is part of schoolwork for the eight children of the Lee family, who stay in a two-storey HDB maisonette in Serangoon. All of them, having been homeschooled until the age of 16, have relied largely on watching educational DVDs to learn their subjects.
Six of them have successfully entered university or polytechnic, which lends credence to the fact that it is
possible for homeschooled children to assimilate into school life without much problems.
The mother of the family feels that homeschooling has helped her children to be independent learners, thus giving her more opportunities to inculcate moral values in them, and encourage stronger family bonding......"
The rest of the article here. Apologies if the link is not good. I'm not too sure how long they archive their editions.
But anyway, Yae for the Lee Family! May God richly bless your efforts to sharpen the 8 arrows the Lord has given you, Mr and Mrs Lee.
Thank God the article gave homeschooling a positive spin. They took the pains to say how Mama Lee taught the kids about the meaning of the words in our Singapore National Anthem. (For those readers who don't know, our National Anthem is sung in Malay.) It seemed like special effort to report that homeschoolers in Singapore are not a un-patriotic lot. :P
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