Listening to radio 2!

[Fangbeast]

Lazarus404, I don't know about the home schooling aspect here in Australia, but some schools have finally caught on to the enormous amount of pressure they put kids through and have banned homework completely.

In the schools that have banned homework, there is no suicide rate, no back problems (from the tons of books kids carry around!!), the children do so much better at exams than those with tons of homework, seem to be able to handle social occasions better than their elders (grin), don't have a myriad of family problems and are a lot better emotionally adjusted.

This too is a step in the right direction.

My sister home schooled her two daughters for many years before the law forced her to put them in school (sadly) and those two squidlets can out-talk any adult, have the most marvelously social personalities and are loving and kind to most people. Quite unlike 98% of the kids I have seen around here packed day after day into an instituionalised school system.

Schools are just getting worse...

[Lazarus404]

See? And does your sister have a degree, phd or even simple college qualifications? She may have, but most home educating parents don't, yet their kids still turn out a lot better. If Australia really does have a law saying kids *HAVE* to go to school, then that is taking away the rights of the individual. Granted, children are too young to make life altering decisions like that for themselves, but to force a child into any institution is the same as imprisoning an innocent. That would never happen over here, especially as home education is greatly on the increase. Home educators in my town alone has more than quadrupled in the last two years. Of course, that could just be saying something about how bad schools are actually getting

[the.weavster]

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