Archive for July, 2007

Grandparents: You Too Can Enjoy Home Education

Otherways
By Lyn Saint

As grandparents, you naturally want the best for your grandchildren. You want them to be happy, well educated and to have every chance at a good life.

You have no doubt worked long and hard to provide a good education for your own children and are therefore puzzled and afraid when you hear that your grandchildren will not be going to school. You are immediately afraid that they will be left behind, lack future opportunities and turn into misfits.

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Country Viewpoint

Stephanie Pollock gave her view on home education on the ABC radio’s Viewpoint. The transcript appears below:
Monday, 09/07/2007
The first time I met these kids, I was left in awe of them. They were centred, spoke with eye contact and interest and I think exuded much more confidence at 11 & 13 than I did at [...]

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Johnstons are right at home on schooling

by Allan Murphy, Sunrasia Daily Thursday July 5, 2007
By their own admission, the Johnston family at Colignan among the vast minority.
Mum Maaike Johnston and her husband Mark home-school their two young daughters, preferring to keep them out of the mainstream state school system.
Unlike government and private schools, the Johnstons do not recognise a Monday to [...]

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