Something I’ve noticed, through spending many hours in museums all over the world with my kids, is that the school groups, free from the classroom for a day, mostly have their attention on anything but the museum. It’s not the case when you take kids in ones and twos rather than in...
Homeschool. No, like, by ourselves. Not distance learning and not a pod. I realize how privileged this is, trust me, and I also know that many people might be in the same position of having one parent not working and able to stay home, so I’m hoping to have a conversation about ...
They do some computer coding using Scratch, Python, HTML and recently, Java. There are endless free resources for this online and it’s lots of fun for them. D is way beyond what is taught on the UK curriculum on this. I don’t know if its even on the Australian curriculum yet, it...
The children left outside the school gates fall into four quite different groups – and each one is a scandal. The Untaught One: the “home schooled.” Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to send your kids to school in Britain. If you decide to keep you child indoors and ...
I split the households into two groups based on whether their income is above or below the median. I find that only households with above-median income increases their likelihood of sending a male child to a madrasa in response to having a migrant in a Muslim-majority coun- try.35 This ...