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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...
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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....
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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
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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...