Funding for Home-Schooling?
In New Zealand there are currently more than 10,000 children who are home-schooled.
In so doing they save taxpayers $100,000,000 per annum.
You need permission from the Ministry of Education to teach you own children. This then entitles you to $796pa government support for the first child. Less for any siblings.
In NZ private schools reveive approx. $1400 per student per annum. A pitiful ammount given that they pay $3000 GST on $20,000 fees. In Australia private schools reveive above ten times that figure and 36% of students attend them. It is less than 4% in NZ.
A very key issue is why parents are choosing to educate their children is that the State System in their area is demonstrably failing them - despite paying their taxes.
This can be for reasons such as poor academics, bullying, non-allignment with parental values ....
ACT promises a "money follows the student" policy but has not got even close to establishing it.
How do we create a much better system that allows parents to choose?
alwyn.poole@gmail.com
