PARENTS are increasingly turning their backs on traditional schooling and tutoring their children at home. On the cusp of the new school year, the profile of homeschooling has been given a boost after a VCE student earned top marks for 2015 after a mix of home and distance education. Figures…
Category: Australia
Finishing the Race: How Home Education Prepared Me For Life
By popular demand, here are the notes for Suzannah Rowntree’s workshop on home ed graduates. Introduction I want to begin by saying what I’m not here to tell you. I’m not here to tell you how to do your job of raising and training your children. I can’t do that…
Inquiry Into Homeschooling in NSW
Susanna Hardy Sydney 26 Aug 2014 — A Legislative Council Inquiry into home education in NSW is now underway. Submissions are still being taken until the 5/9/2014. For more information: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/homeschooling Just email them to homeschooling@parliament.nsw.gov.au Thank you for your support. Background links: Australian Home Educators Urgently Need our Help! Submission…
Submission in support of Home Educators in NSW
Here is my submission in support of Home Educators in NSW Information at this link: Australian Home Educators Urgently Need our Help! Please note: Submissions due by 5 August (Australian time) – still time to get yours in Survey open for a bit longer Click on this link to read…
Australian Home Educators Urgently Need our Help!
From Karen, an Australian: We would really appreciate your support in Australia. The state of NSW is in the midst of a government inquiry into home education and we’re all concerned about the outcome, which may well have a negative flow-on effect to other states, and possibly even other countries….