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2022 Home schooling reaches record high in South Australia as families respond to COVID-19 disruptions – by Rebecca Puddy, ABC News, February 14 Transition to homeschooling – Interview with Kirsty J, Jonathon Kendall, ABC Radio Mornings, February 3 2021 Sport climbing becomes newest Olympic sport, Aussie teen Oceana Mackenzie set to compete, ABC News 16 July (the article doesn’t mention it but Oceana was

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Education Commentary

Children educated at home don’t learn like they do in school

Ockam’s Razor, 1996 Robyn Williams: Bertrand Russell never went to school; it didn’t appear to do him much harm either, as he still got to Trinity College Cambridge, revolutionised 20th century mathematics, won the Nobel Prize for Literature and did quite a bit for philosophy and politics as well. Avoiding school was commonplace for the British aristocracy. But does it have a place in

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Home Ed Styles

60 Minutes Segment on Unschooling

This was aired in 2014 and republished as part of the 60 Minutes archive in 2020. Also available ‘Extra minutes’ are on YouTube Channel 9 Mornings with Sandra Dodd The Clark family were interviewed with The Chronicle and the website contains a video with them as well Issue 140 of Otherways magazine carries stories from both Carleen Sing and Rachel Clark and their 60

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