More expatriates opting for local schools over international ones
The fees are much lower than international schools', the teachers are good, and the children get to learn Chinese
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Americans Laura and Geoff Dugan, who moved from Seattle to Singapore in 2008, enrolled their sons Seth (left) and Eli in local schools. Eli studies at Opera Estate Primary School, while Seth attends preschool School House by the Bay. -- PHOTO: JONATHAN DOWNES
Singapore-based American investment expert Jim Rogers enrols his daughter Happy in a Singapore school and he is not the only expatriate to do so.
Local schools are now a serious option to many foreigners, with more hired on local terms and receiving fewer expat perks.
On the plus side, the schools offer lower costs, good teachers and Chinese-language programmes.
The Ministry of Education declined to give The Sunday Times figures on foreign children in local schools. But expats have noticed this trend themselves. Ms Audrey Mitchell, 37, said that when her daughter Daisy, now 13, started Primary 3 at Tanjong Katong Primary School in 2007, there were only two or three Caucasians studying there.
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