Several people ask me for links to help them when talking with unsupportive relatives, NGOs such as WINZ and CYFs, preparing court cases etc. Please share in the comments any of your favourite links – thanks . Research – Beyond Homeschooling NZ 2013 – results of a New Zealand survey…
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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…
Getting Started – Socialisation
What about the social training? How can a child schooled at home all the time “fit in” with the rest of society? Will they have any friends?The Socialisation Question is often uppermost in people’s minds.Homeschoolers themselves and researchers both in NZ and overseas, regard “socialisation” as a non-issue among home-educated…
Homeschooling is the smartest way to teach kids in the 21st century
Matthew Hauck/Flickr Alison Davis doesn’t see homeschooling as some strange alternative to traditional school. If anything, says the mum from Williamstown, New Jersey, when it comes to raising her two children, she’s doing the sensible thing. “You’re not going to be put in a work environment where everybody came from…
Class of their own: Home-schooling a ‘path of discovery’
Seven per cent of New Zealand’s school population are taught at home. Last year, 5558 children from nearly 3000 families were home-schooled.Education reporter Jody O’Callaghan meets a North Canterbury home-educating family. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/76178455/class-of-their-own-homeschooling-a-path-of-discovery Scargill mother Lennie Harrison has been home-schooling her four children for 27 years. As 10-year-old James is head down studying, the smell of pancakes wafts from…