Parents are now paying up for someone else to teach their children values

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. For good measure, she paid for his drum lessons.

Mrs Tan shelled out $280 for eight weekly classes at non-profit organisation Xiyao Culture Association, which runs secular lessons imparting values like filial piety, respect and concern for others through story-telling, poetry, skits and team activities.


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