In the papers again!

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No, we seriously do not go around courting publicity as a friend had teased. In fact, my motto is to fly under the radar as much as possible. But I guess living a non-mainstream lifestyle makes that a little bit difficult in tiny Singapore 🙂

In the news for homeschooling

This time round, we were in the news for homeschooling. At first we declined to be interviewed but after some thought we agreed. And things moved rather rapidly. We were interviewed on Monday, 29th November and the article appeared on Tuesday, 30th November 2010. The article mostly touched on homeschoolers who have done well – by the country’s standards, I hasten to add.

We are by no means the best scorer – let me put this on record as there was at least one other child who did better but has chosen not to be featured.

Homeschooling is not a cop out

So why did we agree to the interview? Mainly to tell the country that homeschoolers are not the riff-raffs of society. As Henson said, which is worth re-quoting,

“homeschooling is a very misunderstood concept. A lot of people think we are not educating our child…we do want to educate our children; it’s just that we see education in a different way.”

We thought it would be nice to do a little ra-rah for homeschooling since past years’ reports kept on harping on how homeschoolers are not meeting the benchmark set by MOE 🙁

The last time we appeared in Sunday Times was 2 years ago. That article helped to ra-rah large families – all right up our alley as you can see 🙂

Ok – we’re now trying to go back to flying under the radar.

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