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Originally Posted by buzzard
What do you actually get for the five grand spent on homeschooling?
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Curriculum, furniture & school supplies, transport to & from various homeschool co-op events and regular meet ups, plus the cost of home school activities. Tomorrow there's a pottery workshop, it's $160 for the three of us. That kind of thing. I think altogether our curriculum and accompanying materials cost $2300 SGD. The furniture for the home school room was about $1000k.
Plus we pay a bit more for an apartment with a 4th bedroom so that we can have a dedicated classroom, and more facilities - a bigger pool, a half basketball court, tennis courts, etc. So that there is room for them to go outside and play.
I think the worst thing for them is loneliness - we only see other kids a few times a week through the homeschool group. The older one is better off because he's sporty, so he has swim squad three times a week, and basketball three times a week, and has made friends through those. The younger one just writes poetry and hums to himself and is getting more and more eccentric but I think part of that is just his personality. It's just a two year stint here in Singapore and then we'll most likely return to Wellington and they'll go back to public schools.