{"id":659,"date":"2017-07-22T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.247.165.222\/?p=659"},"modified":"2017-07-22T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:50:07","slug":"really-take-home-school-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/really-take-home-school-child\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it really take to home-school your child? (Hint: super powers not required.)"},"content":{"rendered":"
In fact, you do. <\/span>In Singapore, all children must undergo compulsory education (CE), which is primary school education<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>Parents, who plan to home-school their child, have to apply for a Certificate of Exemption (COE) through the Ministry of Education\u2019s Compulsory Education Unit a year before the child enters primary school<\/span><\/span>. Only children with special needs do not <\/span>require<\/span><\/span> a COE.<\/span><\/p>\n Not so long ago, the concept of home-schooling in Singapore would be almost unheard of. Today, things have changed. We hear of more people pursuing unconventional life choices, home-schooling is one example. Parents choose home-based education for their children rather than the formal classroom learning. \u00a0 In this article, we aim to shed some light […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[249,250,251,252,253,254,255,256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halfhalfparenting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}MYTH 2: Home-schooling is only for children with special needs.<\/h2>\n
MYTH 3: Home-schooling is free and easy, anything goes.<\/h2>\n
MYTH 4: Home-schooling deprives both parent and child of support from others.<\/h2>\n