Aren’t you keeping them out of the real world?

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From: An Ordinary Life

Aren’t you keeping them out of the real world? 

 This is a question I was asked yesterday during a conversation on Home Education started by an acquaintance, my inner thoughts went…
THE REAL WORLD! I cannot believe how many times I have heard it and how many more times I am sure I will hear it. Why do people think that sending their children to school will teach them about the real world, about real life challenges?  
SCHOOL IS NOT REAL LIFE.
Being in school does not teach a child how to deal with trials in life…
If you are a child in school…
Read what An Ordinary Life says about having our children in school here…
So what real life situations are in school?
To me there are no other real life situations. Think about it, if there were why would children in schools need those field trips to supermarkets, the butchers or even play areas in parks if that were true. They are kept out of the world so much the schools have to educate them about these things. That is a truly sad thing I think.
What is real about having to sit tests? Being forced to learn a certain way.  People trying to mould you to believe the governments way is right; society is just planning on building a robotic world where very few are truly autonomous in their living – that’s what I think anyway. Why should we believe everything we are taught? Why is it when a child questions a teacher’s teaching, does the child have an attitude problem? We as adults question each other all the time. We are just learning from each other aren’t we? When my children questions what we are learning we research it out together. They are not squeezed into a box they don’t fit into. Ever.

Read the rest of the article here…

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From the Smiths:

https://hef.org.nz/2011/craig-smith-26-january-1951-to-30-september-2011/

Updated 1 October 2014:  Three years on (Craig Smith’s Health) page 7 click here

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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:

Information on getting started: https://hef.org.nz/getting-started-2/

and

Information on getting an exemption: https://hef.org.nz/exemptions/

This link is motivational: http://hef.org.nz/2012/home-schooling-what-is-it-all-about/

Exemption Form online: https://hef.org.nz/2012/home-schooling-exemption-form-now-online/

Coming Events: https://hef.org.nz/2013/some-coming-events-for-home-education-during-2013-2/

Beneficiaries: http://hef.org.nz/2013/where-to-for-beneficiary-families-now-that-the-social-security-benefit-categories-and-work-focus-amendment-bill-has-passed-its-third-reading/