Please see below contacts for the Swedish and the Indian Embassies in New Zealand and Australia. Calls Needed to Reunite Homeschool Family e-mail October 7, 2009 from HSLDA.org Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: We recently told you about the plight of the Johanssons, a Swedish family whose only child, 7-year-old…
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Homeschooling goes boom in America
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=85408 Homeschooling goes boom in America 74 percent increase in number of families teaching own children Posted: January 05, 2009 By Chelsea Schilling © 2009 WorldNetDaily A homeschooling movement is sweeping the nation – with 1.5 million children now learning at home, an increase of 75 percent since 1999. The Department of…
Hardcore truants by the thousand
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4798639a11.html Hardcore truants by the thousand By LANE NICHOLS – The Dominion Post | Saturday, 20 December 2008 Thousands of the most at-risk children are still missing from classrooms, forcing education officials to act as detectives hunting long-term truants. Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft said the “unexploded time bombs”…
Teachers fight to save Shakespeare
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4761441a11.html Teachers fight to save Shakespeare By LANE NICHOLS – The Dominion Post | Saturday, 15 November 2008 Shakespeare’s plays and other great works of literature considered too difficult for some pupils will disappear from classrooms under proposed changes to the curriculum, alarmed principals say. There are also fears that…
All children are gifted…
All children are gifted. . .some just open their packages sooner than others. – Unknown