Saturday, September 19, 2026

Government considers tighter checks and reviews for homeschooling

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The Government is moving to tighten oversight of homeschooling following the Tom Phillips inquiry, with recommendations including checks with Police and the Ministry for Children, more information about parents and regular reviews of exemptions.

Cynthia Hancox, an advisor to the National Council of Home Educators NZ, said some changes now appear “likely inevitable,” but their final shape has not yet been decided.

She said the group will push for any new requirements to be “as limited, reasonable and proportionate as possible”. 

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  1. Of course, this will just lead to making it ultimately impossible for home schooling to work. the globalist agenda has wanted to outright Ban home schooling for Decades.

  2. Going the way of some European nations that have which outlawed homeschooling.
    This is how it started out…
    This could very well be an invasion of privacy also, and denial of a home-based education if a ‘problem student’ was previously enroled in mainline schools which would have done nothing for Special Needs students anyway!!!
    Tom Phillips understood the threat that society, government and domestic laws imposed on his children to the point of being driven to go bush and needing to steal in order to survive.
    Let’s watch and see what else this government does to piss us all off before the adjourn for the rest of the year, provided we haven’t been eliminated by numerous Cobalt 60 Nuclear Bombs or Poseidon Nuclear Torpedoes..!
    Attorney-Generals past and present are NEVER to be trusted!

  3. Look, you can’t have actual truth with no pushed-agendas. Your round table of puppet-masters shall not allow it. Bow down in cowardly subservience and submit to your establishment puppet-masters now..

  4. Homeschooling is a manifestation of parents total lost faith in the government “education” system. Juvenile vaccine uptake is at an all time low; also a manifestation of loss of trust in the “health” system. Just saying distrust in your government is not limited to one department.

  5. The ‘State’ is the the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly this lie slips from its mouth, I the State am you!..something like that. We can’t have free thinking non government worshippers in society. The state will make certain of that.

    • “L’État, c’est moi” (“I am the state”) – proclaimed Louis XIV of France, the “Sun King”.
      France imploded after he died. His successor stated “Après moi, le déluge” (After me, the deluge).
      That was followed by the Revolution.

  6. While I agree the state has been intentionally interfering with parents rights, all parents are not created equal. Some parents are not intelligent enough to educate their own children.

    Some oversight is needed to ensure a child has the necessary knowledge, abilities, skills and dedication to do better. Little minds are influenced by ideology. If that ideology isn’t helpful or useful, it may cause difficulties for that childs life.

    It is more than a curriculum. In recent years the state has been influential in matters like the COVID pandemic and vaccine mandates. As we now know, that type of policy hasn’t been truthful. Evident by the ACC compensation payouts, it has caused harm and division.

    This next bit might sound racist to some, but it should be said that as a multi cultural society, some cultures and individuals are not equipped ot practical enough to get the job done. Some can be unhelpful..

    Children who attend school soon workout who is of good character and who is not. Its just part of growing up.

    Sport is another thing that has been overlooked. Children competing or playing as part of a team builds fellowship and creates competition to better themselves. Many have been a lifelong support for each other.

    There is just so much more children get from interacting with other children. Working out who is reliable and who isn’t. Who is honest and who is a trickster. These are helpful skills.

    Long has it been since I attended a school. You would be right to call me an old fart, stuck in the past. That was then and this is now and I don’t understand. As a core principle you are taking away such things I truly believe are necessary for the young by not allowing children to mix with other children.

  7. What happens to parliament when you seat monkeys into it?
    It turns into a circus
    Which what has happened
    And you have a feeding non sense frenzy at the zoo
    Nasi the ringmaster failed in every respect in their own dereliction of duty and loss of control
    Drifting aimlessly no direction inert dead in the water
    All that needs to be done is to start handing out bananas
    NZ’s political landscape is in a delirious state of affairs with no future prospect of any improvement in the near future
    Maybe Nicky Hagar’s new book due out will shed some light on this balls up?
    NZ undeniably has gone to the dogs backed by state induced terrorism in “just following orders”

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