'A crisis in modern schooling': teachers quit to homeschool their own

Margaret Ryan

By Margaret Ryan
Published January 16, 2024

Here’s another reason why Australian teachers are leaving the profession in droves – to homeschool their own children.

That’s according to Dr Rebecca English, homeschool researcher, and senior lecturer in education at Queensland University of Technology and former ...

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