Home schooling is sometimes the best choice for parents

Anne Vize

By Anne Vize
Community contribution / February 3, 2017

Across Australia, numbers of home educated children are booming. In Victoria, well over 4000 children are registered as being home educated, while in Queensland the numbers doubled in the past five years to reach 2300 by 2016.

In NSW the picture is similar, with an increase of 65 per cent from 2008 to 2012, swelling to close to ...

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