Home schooling
Suzannah Rowntree was interviewed on Counterpoint about her article on home schooling published in June Quadrant. The audio is here…
From June Quadrant:
Home Schooling: Education Outside the Box
By Suzannah Rowntree
For a growing minority of Australians, it seems only yesterday that they found themselves facing the mortified reactions of friends and family when they heard the news.
You’re going to home educate? Is that legal? How can you give Jack a good education when you’re not a professional? What about socialisation?
But these mothers did it.
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