“Some thoughts for those new to home education, on rights and responsibilities, hiring help, and other such things.” – Cynthia Hancox
https://www.cynthiahancox.com/?
New to Home Educating
From: Rhonda Uren
May the following be helpful, and encouraging, if you are new to home education here in Aotearoa:
There are LOTS and lots of people who have been successfully home educating in Aotearoa New Zealand FOR DECADES!
As a result, there ARE multiple diverse, successful, wonderful fellow kiwi citizens and human beings that have all become successful in their fields of choice, right here in Aotearoa and internationally, as a result of being home educated in Aotearoa New Zealand.
So, take courage Mamas and Papas of Aotearoa who are considering home education… it will all fall into place and you and your child, your whanau. are about to start a fabulous learning journey together!
Those that are feeling a tad anxious, unsure and stressed can relax…. others HAVE written an exemption application before, AND SO CAN YOU .
Here are some practical tips which can be handy as part of the ‘let’s-start-writing-our-exemption-application-scenario :-):
1. SPEND TIME getting to know your own child that bit more for a time.
FIND OUT what are their specific strengths and areas of interest are. FIND OUT what makes them tick. observe, take notes, ask questions.
ENGAGE directly with your precious individual child….. AND watch for the light & sparkle that comes into their eyes when it comes to certain subjects/activities/areas of interest to them, in order to see firsthand what makes them keen, enthusiastic, passionately engaged learners.
2. FIND OUT ABOUT LEARNING STYLES.
Forget about ‘teaching styles,’ and instead get to know HOW your individual child best learns.
YOU need to learn how to ‘speak’ the ‘language of learning’ that best suits YOUR child, NOT what best suits you in the role of the teacher.
Try and move away from the fixed mindset of what you think schooling must look like, to what works FOR the very child in front of you,
The key to successful communication throughout the entirety of THEIR learning journey is to know HOW THEY LEARN and therefore HOW they take in information, take onboard skills and absorb knowledge best.
3. OBSERVE what times of day your child is most receptive to learning about new things/able to put in some quality time on the concentration and motivation front.
TIMING is often everything.
The 9am to 3pm window that is conventionally followed just may not be what works best for your lad or lassie.
QUALITY time is best when it comes to learning.
A horse is gentled best by spending time in the lunge AND THEN having TIME OUT, freely frolicking on the hillside pasture for a block of time… it is sure to be the same for that fabulous learner in your care. They each need TIME to have TIME-OUT to do the processing needed as follow on from the concentrated learning time.
4. CAST ASIDE your own experience of schooling.
Some of us adults need to get real about the need WE actually have to ‘de-school.’
We need to take care that we are not consciously or unconsciously creating a false learning environment for the very child we are wanting to be journeying alongside.
5. VIEW THE EXEMPTION AS AN OUTLINE. It is an outline you are putting together on paper, for the next 12 months, to put in place a positive learning adventure… because learning IS a wonderful adventure,
If joy leaves the experience, your child will be wasting valuable time that could otherwise have been used far more productively had joy and enthusiasm for learning been allowed to be present.
Keep a finger on the pulse of how much joy and enthusiasm is able to be kept present, in order to oil the wheels of learning.
6. CAST ASIDE FEAR and ANXIETY about keeping up with the Joneses and the alleged progress THEIR child is making…. just drop it, Mama and Papa.
It is all about YOUR CHILD, YOUR CHILD’s interests, YOUR child’s strengths, YOUR CHILD’s present and future….. and you will be amazed at just how successful your child really is, when they are allowed to be the best them.
7. TAP INTO YOUR LOCAL HOMESCHOOL NETWORK…. there are many across on the whole of Aotearoa New Zealand. We are a diverse bunch of people, us kiwis, and within the communities of homeschooling folk there is a wonderful lot of diversity also.
8. TAKE COURAGE as you set out on this home education adventure. Those of us a little further along the track of already being on the home education path can encourage you. We can say that it is truly wonderful because our children are all doing exactly the right journey for them, by being home educated.
My hope, in sharing this post is that it proves to be encouraging, and also a source of practical help, for those who perhaps needed it at this time.
KIA KAHA.
Regards
Rhonda Uren
Sorry for my absence
This website was targeted with viruses. We had to take the website back to basics. It is now clean so we are rebuilding it again. So in the next few months we hope to have a new website with all the archives that are here now.
Dont you dare
Over the past few months I have been burdened about the future of home Education world wide. I have had several zoom calls and talks about this in New Zealand, Australia, The Philippines and the USA. My next talk is 11 June at the NEXT GEN EDU Alternative & Home Educarion Expo (link below) in California. These are my ever changing notes that I have been speaking from: https://hef.org.nz/home-schooling-education-beyond-covid/
My notes will probably be changing completely next week after the United Nations WHO meeting in Geneva.
I wrote the following several days ago after reading this link and watchng the video: https://leohohmann.com/2022/04/25/global-govt-alert-threat-to-national-sovereignty-set-to-go-down-may-22-28-at-who-world-health-assembly/
There is a conference in Geneva, May 22-28, where 194 Nations belonging to the UN will be represented and there will be a vote/or signing on the WHO plot to enact a permanent State of Emergency globally. The nations of the earth will have to cede their sovereignty over national health care decisions to the WHO. rumble.com/v1493a0-urgent-stop-global-governancethe-vote-to-give-total-power-to-the-who-takes-.html
https://gem-report-2021.unesco.org/
We are already noticed by the U.N.
My concern is if the WHO bans Home Education around the world will our children have to go to school. We will no longer be able to appeal to Sovereignty, natural law, common law etc.
The CDC has said that they want to mandate the jab in schools. So what can we do? Well, people must NOT put their children in School. First of all, according to the WHO, if your children are in school it implies conformed consent for the jab because you could have prevented them from going to school on jabbed days. www.who.int/immunization/programmes_systems/policies_strategies/consent_note_en.pdf. (This link has been pulled down, unfortunately I didn’t screen shot it before it was taken down) We are already seeing tricky ways that some schools are using to get children jabbed.
What can we do? We need to be discussing this. It seems our only alternative is to build strong communities where we are looking out for each other, protecting families etc. I am going to study up the strong communities like the Amish etc. would be good if others do too. What else can we be doing? There will be no Country on Earth that will be safe “if” they ban home schooling globally. They may not ban home schooling globally but we need to begin preparing for it incase they do. It will be too late to prepare everyone when/if home education is banned. If WHO gets the power to enact a permanent State of Emergency this month then it will come into effect in November. We know they are wanting children jabbed. So this is a possibility that we need to prepare for.
For those who pray we need to be urgent in prayer for each other and home educators around the world. There are many who are totally against parental involvement in the education of children. The State thinks children belong to them and that they should control what children learn. The Bible in Deut 6 tells us quite differently that we, the parents, are to teach our children, diligently God’s statutes and commands, and to talk of them when we sit in our homes, walk by the way, lie down and rise up. That is all the time! There is no room for the State there!
Isaiah 8:12 “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.” We are not to fear or be in dread but to prepare for the coming days as we seek to support each other to continue training up our own children. We need to look to God for our courage and be prepared to help others as much as we are able.
Links for the NEXT GEN EDU expo mentioned above:
for family: https://www.nextgenedu.us/a/2147508098/RNubPdWZ
for individuals: https://www.nextgenedu.us/a/2147508099/RNubPdWZ
update: 20 May 2022
There are two treaties we need to be watching and praying about and acting on.
1. WHO Global Pandemic Treaty
190 National to sign by August 2022
To give power over to WHO over Global bio security: digital identity, passports, mandatory vaccines, travel restrictions globally, standardised medical care and so much more.
2. Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) (to be voted on 22-28 May) https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241580410
“An attempt to implement the public health equivalent of a “one-world government” in violation of individual nations’ and citizens’ inalienable rights and sovereignty
“The United States’ proposed amendments to the IHR are set to be considered at the 75th World Health Assembly, which begins on the 22nd of May, 2022. The proposed amendments, however, create an ambiguity relating to the date they become effective as the proposed amendments expressly state they will become effective six months after the date of notification by the Director-General, whereas the existing IHR provides that amendments become effective 18 months after notification by the Director-General.
If accepted, these legally binding amendments would come into effect for all member states except those that explicitly reject them. Under Article 59 of the IHR, de facto approval is assumed for any member states that fail to reject or take reservation to the amendments.”
For more read here: https://healthfreedomdefense.org/wfd/?fbclid=IwAR0dGOrdZYD3AhO6oNwAuL8JK95bGyblcd1M3rEePGZnyEE62kakzvWDH7I
From above link:
One of the IHR amendments’ most insidious changes is the creation of a “Compliance Committee” that will serve as the administrative and enforcement mechanism to ensure member states comply with WHO emergency directives involving infrastructure, capital expenditures, information gathering and implementation of emergency responses.
In sum, the IHR amendments would, among other changes:
**Intensify the surveillance of all countries and their citizens.
**Grant the WHO the authority to tell other member states when one member state isn’t reporting and launch punitive actions.
**Empower the WHO Director-General to declare when and where a pandemic or “alleged” emergency is occurring using undisclosed sources.
**Confer unrestricted powers to the Director-General to define and implement interventions.
**Give the WHO the ability to access and mobilize capital in the event of a pandemic.
This power grab by the WHO, its donors, and stakeholders represents a direct attack on the political and economic sovereignty of all nations and their citizens.
By repeatedly promoting policies that caused catastrophic economic, social, physical, emotional and mental damage across the globe, the WHO has failed in its mission as global steward of public health and cannot be entrusted with setting policy for all citizens of the world.
Of note, the WHO enjoys immunity from every form of legal action, arrest, and searches of their papers, documents, and facilities.
The WHO should not be allocated more money, power, or authority nor should it be allowed to further control the world’s health agenda or implement biosecurity measures.
Global agreements brokered by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats must never be permitted to rule any nation.
It is imperative that each nation and territory retain its sovereignty, especially during times of crisis, so that the entire global community can be protected from globally directed policies that primarily benefit powerful financial and ideological stakeholders.
Home Educators and the New Vaccine Mandates
Unfortunately there are a few rumours going around about home schoolers/educators such as:
1. The MoE will not be processing any new exemptions soon. This is untrue.
2. That where there are children 5-12 being home schooled/educated anyone over 12 living in that home must be vaxed. This is untrue.
Cynthia Hancox has updated the page she wrote on this earlier. Please check the link out to read the update 16 January 2021.
Cynthia has updated her earlier article and added some more detail. http://www.cynthiahancox.com/information/home-educators-the-new-vaccine-mandates
Update 16th January 2022:
The above remains correct and current. There are NO mandates for homeschoolers to be vaccinated. The roll out of vaccines for 5-11yos has no effect on this. There have been no new health orders passed that affect homeschoolers (home educators) in this regard. There is nothing on the Ministry’s website to suggest otherwise. If you hear differently, it is just another one of the rumours flying around. Please disregard and don’t spread it. If, however, at any time you come across something on a government website you think puts a different light on things, please contact me with the link. I will check into it and update this page if necessary (as well as let you know what I find).
Read the this link to read the rest of the update link to get the rest of her update.
If you hear anything of concern please don’t talk about it but contact Cynthia with whatever link you have and she will check it out and get back to you and update this page accordingly.