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Bouwe van der Eems and his wife Debbie have been homeschooling their five children since 2000. Bouwe is actively involved in the Association for Homeschooling and the Pestalozzi Trust and has taken part in various meeting with Department officials since 2004. With his family he has been running the SAHomeschoolers website since 2010.

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The Association for Homeschooling received a request for help from Wendy Young from Footprints On Our Land for maths curriculums for Gr 1 and Gr 3. The parents were unemployed for some time and have had to sell up and move back in with their own parents. The Association maintains a mailing list of educational suppliers and distributed this request on this mailing list. The response from the educational suppliers was...

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  • Is homeschooling legal in South Africa?

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    Single parents who are committed to homeschool organize a schedule around their work commitments and sometimes involve family or tutors to assist...

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    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...

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    Home education is the oldest form of education. The school system as we know it is actually fairly new. It is done under the guidance and the...

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