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It has been a dream of mine to be home schooled. First, I hate waking up early to get to school. If I am home schooled, I can jolly well set my time to be later and not wake up at a freaking six am in the wee hours of morning (yawns, just thinking about it makes me upset about my childhood — dabs tears). I mean, I could probably save a lot of time trying to look presentable before I walk out of the house. And imagine all the transport time I can save! Actually I think public education is very over-rated because the teachers care about grades, school cares about efficiency and stuff like that, I mean, how is a teacher able to cater to your learning abilities when she/he has forty over students? I mean sure, you can cater to that and ask questions and stuff like that, but I still think that it doesn’t teach a lot. From my education, I felt that instead of basing my learning on understanding, it wants me to just memorize and regurgitate out what my teacher just said. I mean, look at A levels, my teachers are always harping on, ‘oh it is different from o levels (duh), you got to think more and incorporate your own thinking into your essays,you need to show maturity of thought yada yada.’ And in the end? They just shove model essays and ask us to photocopy one out during exams. It doesn’t even matter if you understood the concept, all you have to do is to throw some jargon here and there, dates, names, and viola, you get yourself a grade that you probably deserve for all the hard work you put in (for memorizing). It is not how much I understood, maths is probably an exception though, but all the other subjects I took, I relied heavily on memorizing. That saying, I do understand the basic stuff and all those needed to qualify, but I just felt that my opinions are worthless as compared to some other experienced people. This is especially so for literature. I feel sad to say it, but yeah, most of the words I threw up on the paper are not mine; not my opinion, not my thoughts. Enough of these emo stuff, my point is that, I don’t feel that I fit into the public school education model. I hate going to school, ever since young. I think I have the worse attendance ever, I skip school like most of the time and whenever I can. I hate waking up early and squeezing in public transport, I hate sitting in the hot class listening to my teachers drone on about something I already know. I hate wasting time. I mean, I can jolly well study at home and turn up only when I needed help. Well, I always wanted to be home schooled anyway but it is pretty impossible because my parents think public education is better and I doubt they know the procedures necessary to let your kid be home schooled in Singapore. So I survived. But I hated it. Everytime I read about a kid being home schooled and finishing their education earlier, I felt like, ‘damn that should be me.’ And I am pretty envious about it (sulks). But oh well, at least I got a shot at private education which is expensive like crap and pretty useless. Recently, I read an article that this actor (I think his english name is Darren Lim or something, anyway, the host of Unnatural) where his kids are home schooled. I am like, ‘I wanna be his kids!’ Seriously, what a cool dad! He is going to bring his kids on a trip around the world and believe in practical learning (wails hysterically, I am born too early la). Anyway that reminded me of sailing lessons and my powerboat license…. which I have no money to get anymore. (wails even louder) So I shall home school my kids in future! Well, if hey don’t like it, I can always kick their ass back to school. lolololololo. But then again, maybe not, so troublesome sia, if I can survive it the normal way, so can they. I’d rather chill. 

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