This morning [Tuesday], the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Education agreed to a comprehensive public consultation process on the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA Bill), proposed to be advertised from March 1, reports Philip Rosenthal of ChristianView Network The comprehensive law will affect every public school and home schooling family […]
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WATCH: Mini documentary makes case for home schooling
Education of children is the responsibility of parents and not the state, says a new mini documentary Home Education: Anybody Can Do It made by Frontline Fellowship. Making a case for home schooling — especially for Christian families — the documentary makers invites parents to “explore the richness and wholesomeness […]
ACDP proposes hybrid system as more children return to school
Media release by the ACDP ACDP MP Marie Sukers today called on the government to introduce a hybrid education system to facilitate the successful completion of the current academic year by all children. Noting an announcement by Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, in which she has said that more […]
Home schooling policy: government urged to apply brakes, resolve communication breakdown
The Department of Education will be wasting money if it rushes ahead with its plans to promulgate the policy on home education which is flawed as a result of a failed consultation process, said ACDP MP Cheryllyn Dudley. There has been a misunderstanding between the DBE and home educators, who […]
Home-schoolers accuse government of steam-rolling new policy on home education
South African Homeschooling organisations have accused the government of steam-rolling through a new policy on home education and a home schooling advocate foresees significant legal battles ahead over alleged serious legal shortcomings associated with the policy, says the Pestalozzi Trust (PT) in a press release. Despite a last-minute outcry by […]
Education bill undermines governing bodies, home-schoolers — ACDP
The Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA Bill) comment deadline is tomorrow — November 10 2017 — but the ACDP has been told that the Department of Basic Education has promised that late submissions will be considered. SEE ANALYSIS OF BELA BILL BY PHILIP ROSENTHAL OF CHRISTIAN VIEW NETWORK ACDP […]
New threat to homeschooling: call to action
Homeschooling action groups in the Western Cape fear that the Government intends to introduce draconian anti-homeschooling legislation in draft national policy on home education that is due to be published in August. Cape Home Educators and the Pestalozzi Trust are concerned that the national policy will override gains that homeschooling […]
Christian homeschooling family granted asylum in USA
Originally published in Christiannews.net The Obama administration has decided to allow a Christian homeschooling family from Germany to remain in the country after initially battling the family in court as they sought asylum in the United States. Ewe and Hannelore Romeike have been battling the matter in the courts for several […]
Train up your child in the way he should go…!
On Tuesday February at 8pm, “Watchmen on the Wall” on TBN Africa will feature the Opening of Parliament, President Zuma’s State of the Nation Address and responses from political leaders. Opposition party leaders appear upbeat about the prospect of the ANC losing significant support in the 2014 General Elections. Genuine […]
German home-school parents seek justice in US Supreme Court
Originally published in Charisma News The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is filing a petition with the United States Supreme Court today (Thursday, October 10) to hear Romeike v. Holder, the German home-schooling asylum case. In April, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sustained the […]