| 6 December 2005 | ||
| 11:00 am |
Science for Home Educators
Creatures of the Slime - with Andrew Plant
Discover the great variety of life forms that existed hundreds of millions of years ago - amazingly enough made up of ’slime’.
Tuesday 6th December 2005
11:00am (junior) and 1:00pm (senior)
See Science at Monash category for booking & location details
| 6 December 2005 | ||
| 1:00 pm |
Science for Home Educators
Creatures of the Slime - with Andrew Plant
Discover the great variety of life forms that existed hundreds of millions of years ago - amazingly enough made up of ’slime’.
Tuesday 6th December 2005
11:00am (junior) and 1:00pm (senior)
See Science at Monash category for booking & location details
By James Silver
The State Government wants to impose tough new measures to control the home education system, a support group says.
Bendigo mother, Susan Wight, who is part of the Home Education Network, has slammed the government’s handling of a draft reform bill that calls for the creation of an authority that would regulate home schooling in Victoria.
Ms Wight believes the present requirement that parents provide “regular and efficient instruction” is an effective method of ensuring education is taking place.
She said about 100 central Victorian families home schooled their children, with many becoming high academic achievers.
by Lyn Loxton, - Home Education Network 2005
If you have found your way to this article, chances are you are having an unhappy time at school. Maybe you are being bullied, or are bored out of your mind or are just plain angry that your life is being wasted in the schoolyard. You may think you are a failure because teachers have said so and you may be failing exams at an impressive rate!
Chances are you are so angry and tired that you may drink more alcohol that you should Or have tried drugs more than once. There are probably even times when you begin to wonder if life is worth living……many of us do at some time.
First of all - you are NOT a failure - it is the school system that is failing you. You are an incredibly unique person and schools as they are today simply cannot cater for individuality. They have a set curriculum and set standards because this is the only way they can teach large groups of kids at once. This forces the kids to act the same and think the same and it also forces them into competition with each other both in an academic sense and a personal one. No room is left for individual thoughts and talents to be expressed or encouraged to a high degree. This is just the ways schools are and the only way they can ever be. If you wish to find out who that person inside you really is and if you wish to give him/her a shot at a real life for a change, maybe it is time to take off in another direction.
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