Parents are worried they’re about to lose a system that works and are wondering what will actually be there when their child needs help.
- Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
Homeschooling ranges from highly structured ‘school at home’ to ‘unschooling’ where kids learn through living.
The federal government has only fully accepted 13 recommendations of 172 for which it has primary or shared responsibility with the states.
One recommendation from the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, could be the game changer that will impact everything – a disability rights act.
The 2022 election campaign has not exactly been a policy fest. And one critical area we have heard very little about is schools.
Effective education depends on good communication and relationships, but face masks hinder visual and verbal cues and can be unsettling. So how can teachers and students overcome these issues?
Many school kids may be studying from home as their schools have closed or they need to isolate themselves for other reasons. Parents won’t need to be teachers, but more teachers’ aids.
Homeschooling can be worth it if parents or guardians who choose to educate their children this way know the challenges. Here are the three main ones.
There are systemic problems with the way mainstream schooling treats students with disabilities. A Royal Commission would shed light on these issues and give us a way forward to a more equal future.
It’s important for the child and their achievement at school that there is a good parent-teacher-student partnership.
Other states have had recent smaller inquiries, but the NSW inquiry into the education of children with a disability was across all systems, and could lead best practice nationally.
Home-schooled children appear to do neither worse nor better than those who attend regular school, so why is there an increasing number of parents who are opting for their child to be educated at home?
Schools are deliberately disregarding disability standards through rejecting school places, being reluctant to make teaching adjustments and having poor attitudes towards disability.
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