Paula Bennett: As far as home schooling goes, the existing home school policy remains unchanged under the welfare reform changes. However, it is fair to say that, in general, a beneficiary parent will not be able to home school their child.
There are some very limited exceptions:
Click on each page of the letter to enlarge to make it easier to read:
Home educators we must all be putting in submissions.
https://hef.org.nz/2012/make-a-submission-reject-compulsory-early-education-for-3-year-olds/
When you look at the White paper and Supporting Vulnerable Children then you will realise that the government wants this for ALL 3- 5 year olds.
https://hef.org.nz/2012/media-release-vulnerable-children-not-benefited-by-social-security-bill/
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Related Links:
- Opinion Piece in Truth
- Possible timeline for Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Bill
- Media Release 3 – Social Security Bill’s ECE Obligations Breach Human Rights
- Media Release 2 – Vulnerable Children Not Benefited By Social Security Bill
- Media Release 1 – Social Security Bill Coerces Parents, Removes Freedom
- Make a submission: Reject compulsory Early Education for 3 year olds
- Some of the main links
- Comment on Q+A: Social Development Minister Paula Bennett
- Human Rights in New Zealand Today: The right to education
- Raymond S. Moore on Early Childhood Centres
- Should preschool be compulsory?
- TVNZ One this morning Q&A with Paula Bennett
- Maxim Institute: What is best for children?
- HUGE Concerns over the Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Bill
- Letter from Paula Bennett concerning beneficaries and home education to Barbara Smith
- Toby Manhire on Benefit-slaying Nats starting to look plain nasty
- Linking welfare to preschool attendance a world first
- New Update on: How will the new Social obligations which will be required of all beneficiary parents effect home schoolers?
- How will the new Social obligations which will be required of all beneficiary parents effect home schoolers?
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From the Smiths:
https://hef.org.nz/2011/craig-smith-26-january-1951-to-30-september-2011/
Updated 5 October 2012: One year on (Craig Smith’s Health) page 7 click here
Needing help for your home schooling journey:
https://hef.org.nz/2011/needing-help-for-your-home-schooling-journey-2/
And
Here are a couple of links to get you started home schooling:
https://hef.org.nz/getting-started-2/
and
https://hef.org.nz/exemptions/
This link is motivational:
https://hef.org.nz/2012/home-schooling-what-is-it-all-about/
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Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Bill
Make a submission: Reject compulsory Early Education for 3 year olds
Paula Bennett claims her new social obligations which apply to “all” beneficiaries are reasonable.
I am not going to repeat what others have said in terms of human rights and so forth which all do apply. I am only going to give an example of a situation and the select committee and those who voted for the bill can say if it is reasonable or not.
You have a person who has paid his or her taxes while working and happen to have become disabled or sick which prevents them from working. They want to teach their children at home (homeschool them) for various different reasons (may be but not limited to the child having an extraordinary intelligence and NZ schools are not going to benefit that particular child).
Considering that the social obligations seem to be for the purpose of pressuring the beneficiaries to go into work and this disabled and sick person cannot work then you are taking away their right to teach their children as they see fit.
Shame on whoever is going to vote for this bill in its current state.