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Figures show there were more than 100 applications a month before the pandemic and fewer than 200 a month for most of last year and this year. But in October there were about 500 applications and in November more than 800.
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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 jump following the national lockdown, which forced 800,000 schoolchildren to learn from home. Advertise...
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 educating their children at home. "I was quite surprised because we were expecting a tsunami of enqui...