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Please ask anything at all about home schooling, that is, educating your own children at home instead of sending them away to school. Ask questions about the legal, social, academic, curriculum and practical issues surrounding home-based education.
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Hundreds of subscribers in New Zealand with a growing number in Australia, USA, Canada and the UK.
Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:
New Zealand residents can enrol at University without any formal paper qualifications. Each University has the discretion to enrol whoever they want, usually after a favourable interview. It is called "Provisional Enrolment".
Something controversial or provocative about this subject
Although it shouldn't be, home schooling is first and foremost a political statement since we live in a world that has stopped questioning the legitimacy of state-mandated, tax-payer funded, compulsory, secular schooling.
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Recent Reviews from Users
K = Knowledgeability C = Clarity of Response T = Timeliness P = Politeness| User | Date | K | C | T | P | Comments |
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| Si | 03/13/06 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Many thanks, excellent. |
| clark | 11/02/04 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Thank you once again Craig, *immensely* helpful ..... |
| Mans | 11/02/04 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Fast reply, and extremely knowledgeable. Very friendly ..... |
Recent Answers from Craig Smith
2009-10-12 After a Translation if Possible:
Greetings Gabrielle, This is a version of the Lord's Prayer: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today
2009-06-01 short course:
Gidday Kareem, Sadly, I know absolutely nothing about the field of Microcontrollers Embedded System. However, I contacted a friend of mine who is a self-taught wizard at IT network systems. Here is
2007-12-31 travel:
Gidday Danny, I've had a few friends from the USA come over here to check it out as a possible place to bring their families to in order to escape the degrading standards in the USA. Typically the
2007-02-16 Identity?:
On the outside it reads, "New Zealand Passport". On the inside it is bi-lingual, English-Maori, Maori being the native Polynesian people. Here it reads "New Zealand-Aotearoa" and "Passport-Uruwhenua".
2006-03-10 Kiwi #8:
Greetings Simon, The Kiwi #8 wire is simply the gauge of the wire...I really don't know what the 8 actually is, what unit of measurement it is. It is fairly thick wire: about 3/16 inch, galvanized for
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