Commentary: My kids survived PSLE with no tuition, but how much longer can they go without it?

Tamara Ceaikovski

As her children embark on secondary school, mum writer Vivian Teo wonders if signing them up for tuition classes will soon become inevitable. SINGAPORE: 2025 marks the year where I no longer have children in primary school. This year, my youngest starts Secondary 1, joining her elder sister who is in Secondary 3 in the same school. In the years leading to their Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE), people were often surprised to learn that my daughters did not have tuition . "No tuition?