{"id":33895,"date":"2026-03-06T05:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=33895"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:20:40","slug":"singaporean-in-new-zealand-takes-kids-out-of-school-for-weeks-for-family-time-now-shes-rethinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=33895","title":{"rendered":"Singaporean in New Zealand takes kids out of school for weeks for family time. Now she\u2019s rethinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\"><span class=\"uppercase\"><span class=\"dateline\">Wellington<\/span><\/span><span class=\"uppercase\"> <\/span>\u2013 <!-- -->For years, I have technically been a rule-breaker in my children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Every year, I have taken my three children \u2013 aged between 11 and 15 \u2013 out of school in New Zealand for as long as four weeks at a time to visit family in France and Singapore, always with the school\u2019s knowledge, usually with its blessing, and until recently, without much hesitation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/australianz\/attendance-matters-why-a-singaporean-in-new-zealand-takes-her-kids-out-of-school-for-4-weeks-a-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington \u2013 For years, I have technically been a rule-breaker in my children\u2019s education. Every year, I have taken my three children \u2013 aged between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}