In New South Wales registration for homeschooling has jumped 15% in the last 12 months. That does not include those who have chosen not to register with the state.

Reasons parents give for removing their kids from the public school system:

• Curriculum
• Bullying
• Homeschooling has lost its ‘hippie’ stigma

State Education spokesman Andrew Stoner says the problem is publics schools are starved for funds.

All of this sounds so familiar.

H/T: Australian Politics Blog

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