Two nieces write similar essays about their lesbian aunt; one gets an A, the other gets an F. The difference? One lives in the Netherlands and the other in Singapore.

Singapore-Dutch blogger Jane said her niece from Amsterdam wrote an essay on why she is the best aunt someone could ever have, and added that she liked other girls.

Jane said her the girl described some of the issues some Singaporean family members had with her sexuality, and said she hoped that everyone could just be friends as it was not fair it was because she liked girls and not boys.

‘Her essay gave her a gold star and an A,’ the blogger wrote.

Soon after, her Singaporean niece was given a similar assignment: to write an essay about a family member who inspires her.

‘My niece immediately jumped onto it and wrote about me, with inspiration from my niece’s essay in Netherlands,’ Jane wrote.

‘She got an "F," Fail, written with big red letters and a comment "Gays cannot be an inspiration in Singapore society!!"’

The blogger said her niece, a sweet quiet girl, was ‘crushed.’

‘But incredible enough, she also got pissed about her F and demanded an explanation in the class. Her teacher flatly told her to keep quiet and shut up, she refused and wanted to know why she got an F and I think for the first time in her life stood up to herself,’ Jane wrote.

‘”You know why” was the only answer.’

‘So what gives you an A in one country can sometimes give you an F in others. Something to think about, and wonder what that really means for the Singaporean society and the way we value the people who live in it.’

In a follow-up post, Jane said the school’s management sided with the teacher and her niece had to accept her first detention.

‘I am not going to disclose the name of the school or the teacher,’ she wrote.

‘It is completely unfair of the school but I am not going to throw a young child out in front of a selfie needing crowd.’