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- Against forced child care from age 3
- Don’t want our rights to raise our children taken from us
- Children’s best interests would NOT be served by compulsory attendance at E.C. E. facilities
- One size does not fit all.
- The bill actively discriminates against beneficiaries
- Blatant discrimination of those receiving a benefit
- Young children do best in all aspects of life in the care of their family
- Healthy people build healthy communities. Healthy family attachments build healthy people.
- From a single Mother
- ECE doesn’t seem to suit every child
- It is institutional misogyny
- I strongly disagree that children so young (3 years) need to be in Early Childhood Centre
- From a Solicitor and Notary Public and mother of four children
- Importance of establishing secure attachment relationships during infancy in order to optimise brain development
- I feel my own family will suffer majorly if this Bill was to pass.
- I am a 20 year old single male
- For many children ‘later’ is better than ‘earlier’ when it comes to institutional education
- Three year olds are far too young to be away from their parents
- This is unfair and discriminatory
- The Bill is discriminatory and marginalises beneficiaries
- Motherless and Fatherless children of NZ forced to have the only parent they have taken away!
- An enforced separation of parent and child at the hands of government in exchange for financial assistance is both cruel and contrary to the nature of our free society
- Every child and every family is different!
- This legislation targets good parents – not the bad ones
- The government is saying that because I’m a solo parent I’m unable to make the right decisions for my children
- This is the worst kind of government interference into how people choose to raise their families
- It is offensive that the job my mother has done and so many other single parents do, is so under-valued
- ECE is not beneficial and is not and can not be a substitute for a caring, loving home environment
- Trust good parents to make good decisions
- I am a mother, not a babysitter and I absolutely oppose this bill
- Trafficking, extortion, kidnapping, slavery and deception
- This is invasive legislation discriminating against excellent parents and removing their freedom to raise their children in a secure loving environment and not going to achieve better lives for neglected children
- This proposed bill will show the New Zealand Government to be punitive and untrustworthy
- Children do not belong to the state
- From Romania: Please learn from the mistakes others did in history! Thank you!
- Children need to be with their family, and nurtured, they must not be treated as tools to force parents to comply with this bill.
- I also believe it enforces the detachment of children from their parents at an age which can be detrimental for many
- The bill falsely presumes that all beneficiaries’ children are at risk
- A child’s right is to be with their parents. To be loved and nurtured and protected.
- Family Integrity’s submission
- In it’s breadth it overshoots and impinges on the basic rights of dedicated and thinking parents such as myself
- Please do the right thing and don’t sully New Zealand’s reputation: vote down this bill
- It is a well researched, known and documented fact that it is parental involvement that makes the difference in regards to educational outcomes, not the institutional education of a child
- Keep our mana intact, don’t steal our children
- Reject compulsory ECE
- From a small Home Education Support Group
- This National government would be well advised and warned to examine carefully the agendas of those who have promoted, lobbied for and recommended the actions in this bill in order to maintain peace, good relations, civility and lawful behaviour in our communities
- Introducing this bill will not achieve a healthy end result for the wonderful country we live in
- Staying in the home saves everyone money including the government money in not having to fund ECE’s
- New Zealand jails are full of people who went to school not people who were home-educated
- Submission from the USA — Author of “Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys”
- To be a beneficiary in Christchurch with an added ‘bonus’ of this reform will utterly destroy some
- Those Who Would Give Away Their Children for Money, Deserve Neither Children NOR Money
- I believe the Welfare Reform Bill to be invalid not only for human rights breaches but also as a Maori for the breach of Article 2 of the Treaty and the breach of the UNDRIP which was endorsed by government in 2010.
- Home-educated children do HALF of all the BAD CITIZEN things and DOUBLE all of the GOOD CITIZEN things
- Stephen’s submission
- We are people, Real People
- Home Education Foundation’s submission
- I worked at an Early Childhood Center before our little ones were born, we would never send our children to an Early Childhood Education Center
- The negative impact of early education is well documented and well ignored by government
- What a step backwards this bill is!
- If you are deprived of love and affection as a child then key areas of your brain which are responsible for your personality don’t get wired up correctly
- Children, again are the victims – and I call that child abuse
- A good government does not come into people’s homes and tell them how to raise their children
- I see this Bill as an abuse on young children and their parents
- Samuel Blight’s submission
- Submission from Poland
- Tarnya’s submission
- This is a poor attempt at trying to tackle New Zealand’s benefit problems!
- Is this law about the mighty dollar or about social engineering?
- Are 100% of beneficiaries to be treated as though they need to be kept away from their children
- Barbara Smith’s submission
- We need your help
- Letter to Human Rights Commission
- Right of Parents to Choose Education
- MP Electorate office for Peaceful Protest
- Sample letter to Select Committee members
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Hi there, just finding it so hard to get my head aroung this application, Help!!!
Is there some kind of a draft copy out there, a guideline of some sort? Feel so overwelmed
I’ll send you a bunch of emails.
Trust some of these will be a help. First look at the subject lines with exemption in them.
Delete those that are not helpful for you.
If you need any more help please email barbara@hef.org.nz your phone number and we will give you a ring. We are on a flat rate on our phone so it wont cost us anything.
We are very happy to help.
Hi Barbara,
been sifting through your website, great stuff. Have send my application for exemption away around 3 weeks ago, so probably been 2 weeks since MOE have had it. Do you have any idea on what time frame we’re looking at to hear something ANYTHING, back from MOE?? We’re in Southland, so it was send to Dunedin.. Does that make a difference? Am anxious to get our son out of the school he’s in.. not going forward etc, does really well when homeschooled during the holidays etc but know legally he’s got to stay at school until we hear from MOE…. dreadful this waiting!!
Hi there
I have my exemption form and have some ideas in mind already, but just wanting a bit of guidance as to how to put in writing. I just want to make sure I have covered everything and would hate to be declined because of insufficient information. So far I have found very little on the internet in the way of an example copy or anything of the like.
Any help would be much appreciated. I’m trying to sort out now to be able to start the new year.
Gidday Stephanie,
Please ring us at (06) 357-4399 or email me at craig@hef.org.nz with your phone number and I’ll ring you back to chat about this. Lots to say, and all of it good news. Nothing to panic or worry about.
Regards,
Craig Smith
Home Education Foundation
Hello
I am applying for an exemption and would like to ask for a little guidance on completing the form, my situation maybe a little different than usual, I have spent 3 days on the internet trying to find guidance…hopefully Home Education Foundation can help 🙂
Thanks.
Gidday Connie,
Give us a ring at 906) 357-4399 or email at craig@hef.org.nz.
Giving advice on exemptions is what we do.
For Free. As a Charitable Trust, we give as much as we can free of charge.
Regards,
Craig
Here are a couple of links that you might find helpful:
https://hef.org.nz/2010/making-an-application-for-exemption-from-enrolment-and-attendance-at-a-school/
AND
https://hef.org.nz/2010/a-collection-of-exemption-tips-and-ideas/
Hi, i’m applying for an exemption but haven’t a clue how to put it all down on paper, i’m starting to feel a little overwhelmed, i’ve search the internet for draft samples or formats but to my disapointment have had no luck.
Could someone please help, it would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Gidday Patricia,
I’ll give you two links to two other pages on this very website.
The first is a cut down version of the exemption application, showing you exactly which comments the Min of Ed expects you to reply to:
https://hef.org.nz/2010/making-an-application-for-exemption-from-enrolment-and-attendance-at-a-school/
The second is a lengthy letter giving all kinds of tips on how to answer the comments:
https://hef.org.nz/2010/a-collection-of-exemption-tips-and-ideas/
I’d suggest reading those two, having a go at answering the questions, then giving me a ring at (06) 357-4399 or emailing me your phone number and I’ll ring you (email me at craig@hef.org.nz) or email me the draft of your exemption answers and I’ll comment on them.
It seems complicated at first, but it really isn’t that bad at all. We can talk you through it. All free of charge. That’s why we’re here.
Regards,
Craig Smith
Home Education Foundation
Thank you, craig for the 2 links,ill go over them and see how i go. Thanks, i really apprciate the help and im sure i get alot from it.
Patricia. 🙂