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Herald Sun November 2007
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22697263-2862,00.html
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 [...]
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 [...]
John Taylor Gatto’s visit to Australia sparked media attention
The Age, June 5 2007
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/schools-out-and-homes-in-says-education-rebel/2007/06/04/1180809426589.html
By Laura Luvara
Sunbury resident Bonnie Brown is only 16, but she’s already happily making babies – baby dolls, that is.
The teenager’s interest in putting together reborn doll kits – an American invention that allows hobbyists to piece together and paint life-like baby dolls – led to her sculpting and selling her own.
Bonnie has sold Ronie [...]
Indigo Valley mum, Ruth Oates has worked at home for the past sixteen years in what has literally been a learning experience.
At the end of last year, Mrs Oates completed home educating her five children – Bill, Nathan, Sharon, David, and Michelle – after having begun the process in 1990 when the oldest three were [...]
April 10 2007
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21528458-2862,00.html
There was an interesting newspaper article in The Australian this week in which a mother successfully won a payout from a private school for failing to teach her son how to read properly.
The article can be read at www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20131494-601,00.html
and there is a follow up article at www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,20145079,00.html
RADIO NATIONAL: HOME-SCHOOLING AND TEENAGERS ABC Radio National’s popular morning program ‘Life Matters’ will be discussing home-schooling for teenagers this Wednesday 26 July.
Life Matters is on air from 9am to 10am.
The item will begin at approximately 9.15am. There will be an 18 minute recorded feature, then presenter Richard Aedy will discuss the issues raised with [...]
by Adam Morton / The Age
© The Age. Reproduced by Permission.
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 [...]
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