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Home Education
Learning Beyond Schooling: IPOH July 5

LEARNING BEYOND SCHOOLING IN IPOH

Join us for our talks on HOME SCHOOLING and how to bring out our children's true potential

July 5, 2008 (Ipoh)

Morning 9.00am - 12.00pm

Venue: Seri Malaysia Hotel Jalan Sturrock, Off Jalan Tambun, 30350 Ipoh.

Admission FREE To confirm your attendance, please email beyond.schooling@gmail.com  and state the number of people coming (with names).

Many thanks to host and organizers:Kelab Bakti Gunung Keledang, PERAK

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What is Homeschooling?

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What is homeschooling?  
 
(picture by China Press)

To homeschool is to take responsibility of your child/ren’s learning because parents want to assume a bigger role in the education of their children. We want children to learn naturally – meaning, that they are able to use their naturally inquisitive and full of wonder kind of minds to explore and learn about the world around them. To do this, parents must view  and value their children with love and respect and trust them to learn with all their physical as well as mental senses. We must give them space to express themselves through movements, art, music, songs and poems, whichever that attracts them most. We must allow them to speak their minds and say what is in their hearts.  
 
So where do we start?
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FamilyPlace,Homeschooling in China Press

Check out the China Press Article HERE

 

(Family at our home library. This picture made our library look really big and impressive. Picture by ChinaPress)

Homeschooling is featured on China Press today (12th May 2008) perhaps for the first time in a chinese newspaper. This is a well-written piece, depicting a positive picture of learning from home (and the pictures are well angled too!).

Unlike the earlier piece on an English newspaper, this piece was conceptualized and brought to fruition with out bringing on perceived negative notions or getting views from educational experts who are not well informed about home education. It beautifully captures the spirit and joy of homeschooling because the writer, editor and photographer were open minded about it and were not out to prove anything to anybody. For that we congratulate and thank the editorial team who did the story.

Thank you for a story well written! We hope more Chinese-speaking families would jump on the bandwagon of homeschooling for a more holistic experience of learning and living!

 

Homeschooling in the NST

Our family appearing in May 11,2008's NST (picture source NST) in the article on homeschooling.

 

picture source by www.NST.com.my

If you have not picked up today's NST (May 11, 2008), there is feature on homeschooling. Check out:

Home schooling: In the comfort of their home (also appeared in the Red Orbit Knowledge network here)

Home schooling: More patient and less competitive

Home schooling: It's a privilege for those who meet criteria

It is interesting how uninformed education experts are, for in the past 20 years or so, the only thing that academics harp on which they view as "faulty" with homeschooling was the (apparent) lack of "socialization". If they have done their research well, they will find that homeschoolers perform much better socially and academically - studies are abundant. 

However, this article was motivated by the fact that homeschooling created a sensation when Sufiah Yusof turned into a prositute. Like regular schoolers don't become prostitutes?

While the Ministry of Education deem it a privilege for parents to be granted rights to home school, one must also remember that as government servants, these officials are given privilege from parents and citizens to design and execute education policies, and at this point, to many Malaysians, confidence in the education system and its process leaves much to be desired.

Read more in "Educating our children – a privilege or a right?" 

 

Education & Learning
STOP THE NS NOW!

What FamilyPlace said about the National Service - May 2007

UPDATED (May 12, 2008)

In a statement published in malaysianinsider.com
here, the DPM is quoted as saying "Currently, trainees are only required to show a written declaration indicating they do not have health problems. We are unable to determine the authenticity of the declaration".

It is really disappointing that our DPM choose to blame the parents for the death of NS trainees. Don't know what to say, don't say anything - just stop it!  It is also disappointing that Lee Lam Thye as Chairman has gone into hiding and have yet to make any statement (not that it means anything).  Dare not say anything, just make a call to STOP NS!

If schools cannot manage social integration after a kid spends about 11 years there, how can a 3-month, poorly planned, terribly operated program make any true changes?

If any social and cultural integration were to happen, it should start with the politicians - stop all the racists talks and really, truly work towards building a socially integrated Malaysia.


STOP THE NATIONAL SERVICE (aka NO-SENSE) NOW!

UPDATED (May 10,2008)

What is really painful is the deputy prime minister now do not even bother to make any statement about this death although the NS programme falls under his Defense Ministry. Where is "weeping" Lee Lam Thye? Such an important (or is it really important?) incident, it is sad that only a NS Training Council member came out with a statement promised that another internal investigation would be conducted. We cannot trust the words of Lee Lam Thye, the Chairman of the NS program, who is this junior office to make this statement?

Meanwhile the NS Training Department director-general was quoted as saying that the training programme will not be scrapped "just because of one or two deaths".  We find this an absolutely insensitive remark when another life was lost.

This is more the reason to STOP THE NS NOW!

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Speak you mind, tell us how you feel and what your thoughts are, go write to the PM and continue to so until this nonsense is stopped!

 

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