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Solo mum Andromeda Teuaki Ki Tangipa says choosing to homeschool her young daughter has helped them save money - and she is encouraging more Pasifika...

The Northland school year is nearly in full swing and education reporter Brodie Stone has got the news covered. Today’s story is about homeschooling....

Only 6500 Kiwi kids were homeschooled in 2019. Now there are more than 10,800.

The number of parents home-schooling their children has skyrocketed since Covid-19 hit, including in the South where there has been a more than 40 per cent

Covid 19 coronavirus: Record jump in home-school enrolments 17 Dec, 2020 08:07 PM 3 minutes to read RNZ By John Gerritsen, of RNZ The Covid-19 pandemic has driven the biggest-ever increase in home-schooling enrolments, with 619 more children learning from home in July this year than at the same time last year. The jump to a total of 7192 children followed several years in which home education has been rising by about 200 per annum. But home educators told RNZ they had expected a much bigger jum...

Children being homeschooled under the Covid-19 alert level 4 lockdown. Photo: RNZ / Eden Fusituá The jump to a total of 7192 children followed several years in which home education has been rising by about 200 per annum. But home educators told RNZ they had expected a much bigger jump following the national lockdown, which forced 800,000 school children to learn from home. Auckland Home Educators group director Adrian Koit said he thought the lockdown would prompt a lot more people to start e...