Many people think that home education sounds all very well… but how do the kids turn out? Will they be wild, unsocialised, unemployable? Not at all. Read these articles for an insight into what grown home learners are like.
by Adam Morton / The Age
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March 8, 2006
It figures: after completing year 12 subjects at 10, mathematician Yao-ban Chan has now become Melbourne University’s youngest-ever PhD graduate.
WHEN he was 10, while his peers swung from monkey bars and charged around with rugby balls, Yao-ban Chan sat year 12 exams in [...]
By Levina and Geoff Snow
We chose to home educate our two children after the kindergarten experience for our elder child was a disaster – bullying and being excluded by the other children and being overlooked by the teacher. The choice initially was to home educate for a few years – then for primary school – [...]
by Katharina Russell-Head, Templestowe, Vic
Why has the Victorian government suddenly become concerned with regulating home education? Who has brought up objections to the existing legislation? What is the problem that they want to solve? What fears are being expressed? Are they afraid that children outside the public school system will be uneducated? That they [...]
By Dindy Vaughan, Ringwood Victoria
Not every child is happy at school.
Some struggle along grudgingly, some fight the system, some opt out and refuse to achieve; and mostly their parents worry.
In many cases it comes down to ’school refusal’. The state of Victoria currently has not hundreds, but thousands of school-age children who are simply refusing [...]