SINGAPORE: Parents who want to exempt their children from enrolling in primary school must submit the relevant documents to support their request, said the Ministry of Education on Wednesday .
This comes as a 35-year-old Singaporean man was was sentenced to 21-and-a-half years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane on Sep 19 for killing his daughter in 2014 and hiding the crime with his wife by burning the girl's body in a metal pot. The mother’s case is still before the court. Only a “small number” of children are not enrolled for Primary 1 by the start of each academic year for “non-valid reasons”, said the Education Ministry in its statement.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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