Representatives from the home education community were not invited to attend the Basic Education Sector Lekgotla in January 2019. This makes one wonder about government’s commitment to ensuring access to quality education for all. Home education is a viable alternative to school attendance. For some parents, home education is a stop-gap solution while they wait for their child to be placed in a school, but for many others it is a...
On Friday 1 November 2018, President Cyril Ramaphosa made a controversial comment. In his comment he stated that he wishes to propose a law that will criminalise parents who fail to send their children to school. The SA Schools Act (Chapter 2, 3 (6a, b)) states that parents who, without just cause fail to send their children to school will be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment of 6...
No. Research has found no correlation between the qualification of the parent and the academic performance of the child. Research shows that...
Single parents who are committed to homeschool organize a schedule around their work commitments and sometimes involve family or tutors to assist...
In general all their schoolwork is homework and they do not get to do extra work in the afternoons. A tutor might give some extra work to complete...
Yes. Since 1994, the right for parents to home educate their children was legalised in South Africa through the adoption of the new constitution. In...
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