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…
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Porno gang’ warning at school
Porno gang’ warning at school By CATHERINE WOULFE – Sunday Star Times http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2838214/Porno-gang-warning-at-school Six teachers at an Auckland school have been caught with inappropriate emails on their school computers. Outraged insiders have dubbed the group a “porno gang”, and say authorities are covering up a scandal. The school is Sir…
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…
Board sacked to protect pupils
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4833210a11.html By EMILY WATT – The Dominion Post | Friday, 30 January 2009 The Government has sacked a second school board in a fortnight after revelations its teachers were hitting, swearing at and denigrating pupils. Education Minister Anne Tolley dissolved the board of South Auckland’s Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate yesterday…