Otherways: Home Education Network

This segment appeared on the 9am programme on Friday July 24
9am segment on Homeschooling with Chareen Rushworth

You can find out more about the Diana Waring conference at Living, Laughing and Learning

The Herald Sun ran this story about home education on July 13
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25771575-2862,00.html

Parents who teach own kids on rise
By Stacey Pevitt
First published in Warrnambool’s The Standard,  Tuesday August 26, 2008
Reproduced by permission
The number of students being home schooled across Victoria is on the rise as parents turn their backs on traditional education.
For the first time in Victoria, students who are home-schooled must be registered with the Victorian [...]

By Dave Tacon, Sunday Life, The Age 1st June 2008

To its supporters, home schooling is the way to foster creative, independent learning, away from the rigidity of mainstream education. Dave Tacon meets four families who have opted to teach their own children.

 
It’s an idyllic setting, the Grace household in the hamlet of Maryknoll, an hour [...]

This article appeared in The Sunbury Telegraph and was reproduced in Otherways 115.
House with Study: A New Meaning
Class in, it’s home sweet school
For Sunbury’s Brown family, the world is their classroom and every minute is a chance to learn.
The 10 children, who range in age from one to 18, have been home-schooled by mum Karen [...]

In Otherways 116 we reported that a Californian court recently ruled that parents have no constutional right to homeschool their children. The court decision was based on this ominous quotation from a 47-year-old case, “A primary purpose of the educational system is to train schoolchildren in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and [...]

The Rebecchi family of home educators were featured recently in May 08 in an article in the Preston Leader.http://www.prestonleader.com.au/article/2008/05/05/34511_ptv_news.html

Home educating family, the Scotts featured in one of the Love’s Harvest documentaries this month.
http://www.rebelfilms.com.au/films/lovesharvest/index.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/loves-harvest/2008/04/15/1208025166467.html