Paying Extra to Teach Children Values in Singapore

The Jakarta Globe, 6 May 2012
Three years ago, Benjamin Tan, then 15, often played truant from school.
It pained his mother, housewife May Tan, 46, who feared he would fall in with the wrong crowd and fall behind on his grades. Her remonstrations did little to help. He tuned her out.
So, she cut a deal with him: complete two months of moral education classes, and she would lay off the nagging. Full story