From: http://familyintegrity.org.nz/ 7 April 2008 – Family Integrity #365 — One family’s ordeal… Dear Friends, This is a terrible story. The outrageous antics of the Police and the social welfare agents are bad enough. But they are not the only villains in this story. Have a read: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=557440&in_page_id=1879 The…
Tag: Socialisation
New Zealand Educators
Comments by NZ Educators Which Reveal Schooling’s Purposes Are Other Than Generally Believed Sir Neil Waters Past Vice-Chancellor of Massey University NZ Qualifications Authority Board Chairman From an interview in the NZQA’s magazine LEARN, Issue 10, November 1996, p. 8. (The punctuation of this paragraph is exactly as it appears…
Home Education in New Zealand
Vision Loving and genuinely concerned parents are the best qualified of all to teach their own children. Who else is more motivated to invest the time, the money, the blood, sweat, toil and tears required for the child’s best interests than the parents? Who knows and understands the child better…
Common Objections
Obj: Our public schools can provide an education free from religious and political biases. A: On April 19, 1987, the then Assistant Director, Resources Development, Dept. of Education, Wellington, met with a number of leaders of homeschooling groups in Auckland. This gentleman stated that his own idealism had been somewhat…
Home Education and Socialisation
Home Education and Socialisation by Craig S. Smith Without a doubt this is the one question, reservation and objection that is raised most often. It is ususlly the one raised first. It is often the one most hotly debated. And common experience among home educators is that socialisation, rather than…