ERO: Homeschooling http://www.ero.govt.nz/Review-Process/For-Parents/Homeschooling Every child in New Zealand has a right to education. While most New Zealand children are educated in schools, the Government also allows parents to make other choices. Some parents choose to take on the responsibility of educating their children. In order to do this, they will…
Category: ERO Review
A Bit of Political Advice to Home Educators
A Bit of Political Advice to Home Educators The Editor would like to mention two things: When to speak and when not to speak. The news that there will no longer be regular blanket reviews of everyone of us but only reviews of those over which there are specific questions…
NO MORE Home Schooling ERO REVIEWS!!!
NO MORE Home Education ERO REVIEWS!!! Echoing then Minister of Education Dr Lockwood Smith in 1994, that he could not justify the expense of regular reviews on such a low-risk group as home educators, Chief Review Officer Graham Stoop wrote in February this year that reviews of home educators are…
Preparing for an ERO Review by Craig Smith
Revised edition – October 2008 Preparing for an ERO Review by Craig Smith New Zealand Home Educator’s Guidebook Twenty A5 pages of insightful and helpful comment on the imminent arrival of the Review Officer. Chapters include: Overall Strategies, What They”re Looking For, What if You”ve Changed Curriculum, Access to Children,…
MoE/ERO Reviews
Some-one asked on hefnetnz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hefnetnz/ and Trademe Message Board http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.aspx?id=29810245&threadid=29810245 “Is it TRUE that the MoE have decided to review every home schooled child in the next 12 months?” Here is Craig’s answer: Gidday all, I think you can relax about this. Back in 1997/8 it was found that neither…