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How you gonna learn anything if you’re stuck in school all day?

Article by HEN member, Emma Lewis, in the Castlemaine Independent 16th April 2010
http://www.castlemaineindependent.org/2010/04/school-free/

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School’s Out when Home is the Classroom

The Sunday Age ran the following story on 14th February 2010
http://www.theage.com.au/national/schools-out-when-home-is-the-classroom-20100213-nyiz.html
HEN does not support the view that further regulation of home education is necessary nor do we advocate compulsory NAPLAN testing for home educators.
The current regulation regime fulfils the governments desire to know our children are being educated while leaving us the autonomy to get [...]

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Chareen Rushworth on 9am

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

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Maldon Young Scientist Shines

Castlemaine Mail, Friday September 12, 2008
Reproduced by permission
Home educated Maldon student Amelia Rowe has achieved outstanding results in the 2008 Rio Tinto Big Science Competition.
The Big Science Competition is a national competition held annually throughout Australia, creating a fun and challenging way for students to be involved in science.
Nine-year-old Amelia competed in the Year 7/8 [...]

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More Learn at Home

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 [...]

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In a Different Class

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 [...]

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House with Study

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 [...]

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News from America

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 [...]

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Love’s Harvest

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

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Idle Parenting Means Happier Kids

Article from The Daily Telegraph by Tom Hodgkinson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/familyadvice/3355719/Idle-parenting-means-happy-children.html

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