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It’s ‘worldschooling’, not homeschooling: Meet the family championing real-life classrooms
Monday to Friday, behind a desk, in the one place. This is the standard – and much-bemoaned – model for work life. It’s also the model for much of pre-tertiary education, from kindergarten to Year 12. Is this monotonous, precisely scheduled environment always the best for producing the next generation of curious, open-minded thinkers?
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It’s great to see learning in context highlighted in this way. What is unfortunate is that regulatory bodies are not very flexible and so travelling families like the Davenports must work outside the system and are unable to be registered for home schooling because they lack a fixed address where “homeschooling occurs.” It is an absurd situation.