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#1111 - Home Schooling 101 With Brett Campbell of Euka · Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families podcast.
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Speaker 2: It's the podcast for the time poor parent who just
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Speaker 2: once answers now homeschool.
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Speaker 1: It has become I don't know if trend is the
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Speaker 1: right word. It's certainly on trend in a lot of
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Speaker 1: places at the moment, booming across Australia. The trend is
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Speaker 1: only heading up. And yet it's one of those things
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Speaker 1: that is perplexing, confusing. Everyone says, I think I'd like
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Speaker 1: to do it, but there's no way I could do it.
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Speaker 1: Actually I should to say everyone. A lot of people
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Speaker 1: say there's no way I could do it. In my family,
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Speaker 1: we are homeschooling two of our children, and new data
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Speaker 1: highlights that more and more people are choosing this option.
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Speaker 1: I decided that I'd reach out to the CEO of
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Speaker 1: Australia's largest CA to twelve homeschooling organization. It's called Yuka
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Speaker 1: Euka Yuka. I need to highlight at the outset this
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Speaker 1: is not a sponsored podcast. Two of my kids do
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Speaker 1: use the Yuka system though, and I figured if I
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Speaker 1: was going to reach out to any one, I wanted
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Speaker 1: to go to the biggest and the one that my
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Speaker 1: kids are using. It's just easy that way. So to
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Speaker 1: kick off this conversation today, I'm joined by Brett Campbell.
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Speaker 1: Brett is the CEO of Yuka and Brett, thanks for
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Speaker 1: giving me some time today. I'm really excited to ask
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Speaker 1: all of the hard, curly, tricky questions about homeschool.
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Speaker 3: Awesome, Well, justin thank you very much, glad to be here,
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Speaker 3: and feel free to fire anything at me and I'll
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Speaker 3: do my absolute darnness to help you out. Really looking
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Speaker 3: forward to having this conversation with you.
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Speaker 1: Want to start with the personal Tell me about your family,
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Speaker 1: kids and whether they're homeschooling or not.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so I have a very small family at this
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Speaker 3: current moment. I got one daughter who's three and a
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Speaker 3: half going on sixteen. The light in my eye right,
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Speaker 3: children really do, from my perspective, change the way you
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Speaker 3: look at the world. The answer to is my daughter homeschooling, Well,
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Speaker 3: she's three and a half, so technically she's not at
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Speaker 3: a let's call it the typical school age where you
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Speaker 3: start school for something my co founder actually said to me, Well,
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Speaker 3: on our podcast where we talk about you know, homeschooling
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Speaker 3: and parenting so forth, as well, I often get asked
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Speaker 3: the question of are you going to homeschool your daughter.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm the co founder and CEO of the
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Speaker 3: largest homeschooling you know organization in the country, got tens
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Speaker 3: of thousands of students across the country. And initially how
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Speaker 3: old answer it was most likely I probably will a
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Speaker 3: lot of parents and adults in and I mean I was.
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Speaker 3: I was this type of person as well before I
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Speaker 3: fell into the homeschooling world. Was I thought teaching was
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Speaker 3: you're sitting in a classroom and you have to go
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Speaker 3: through textbooks, or you have to do this and do
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Speaker 3: your exam and then or test how good you are
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Speaker 3: at something. But that's not what learning really is. There's many,
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Speaker 3: many different ways on how you can teach and educate
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Speaker 3: your children. So the short answer is I currently am
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Speaker 3: homeschooling my daughter right the three and.
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Speaker 1: A half year old. He's booming. Let's shift into a
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Speaker 1: more general conversation about homeschooling. It seems to be having
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Speaker 1: a home and as I lived between the intro, what
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Speaker 1: are the trends that you're seeing at Yuka and why?
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Speaker 1: I mean, the trend is obviously on the ARP that's
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Speaker 1: been in the news and all that sort of thing.
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Speaker 1: So I'm interested in some specifics around that trend, but
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Speaker 1: more particularly, why are more and more families opting out
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Speaker 1: of the mainstream school system and private schooling and saying
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Speaker 1: we're going to do this at home.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's an amazing question. And I'm a data
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Speaker 3: guy and I love data. So there's obviously a lot
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Speaker 3: of anecdotal reasons as to why we may assume parents
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Speaker 3: and families are doing it.
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Speaker 2: But I could share actual data with you on that.
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Speaker 3: But first, I think it's really important to highlight homeschooling itself,
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Speaker 3: because homeschooling, to most parents who've never heard about it
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Speaker 3: is they look at it through the lens of what
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Speaker 3: they thought homeschooling was ten, fifteen, twenty years ago. So
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Speaker 3: my first inception of homeschooling thirty years ago when I
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Speaker 3: was living in New Zealand and there was a family
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Speaker 3: down the road. There was about five student or five kids.
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Speaker 3: They were a religious family and they didn't go to school,
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Speaker 3: and I was like, what are they doing? Mam, Like, hell,
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Speaker 3: why don't they go to school? And they're all out
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Speaker 3: on their front lawn playing. They always looked happy and
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Speaker 3: running around and they're sitting down every lunch together and
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Speaker 3: I'll be like, Wow, what's on she goes it's homeschooling.
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Speaker 3: So I had this perception that homeschooling was only for
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Speaker 3: religious families who wanted to teach their children a very.
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Speaker 2: Specific way of education.
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Speaker 3: Fast forward to today, and especially fast forward since social
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Speaker 3: media has arisen. I mean, social media has played I
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Speaker 3: believe a monumental part in this. So if we look
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Speaker 3: at the hottest topic right now, school bullying and school refusal.
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Speaker 3: So school refusal has been on the increase quite dramatically
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Speaker 3: over the last let's call it three to five years.
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Speaker 3: COVID shone a spotlight on education and showing a spotlight
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Speaker 3: on a different way of doing something which I think
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Speaker 3: was quite magical in a sense. But there's a number
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Speaker 3: of reasons as to why families are turning to homeschooling.
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Speaker 3: From it data perspective, twenty four percent of our students
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Speaker 3: come to us due to reasons of bullying and you
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Speaker 3: know socialization at school, which is you know that's essentially
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Speaker 3: a quarter of our cohort are coming for that specific reason.
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Speaker 3: To give you an example, twenty ten to twenty twenty,
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Speaker 3: anxiety and depression in young children is up one hundred
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Speaker 3: two hundred and three hundred percent suicides are up, you know,
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Speaker 3: self harm is and we're not talking small amounts here,
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Speaker 3: we're talking like major increases in these specific areas. So
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Speaker 3: this day and age, your children are exposed to online
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Speaker 3: social platforms all day, every day. They're laying in their
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Speaker 3: bed at nine point thirty scrolling through and they probably
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Speaker 3: shouldn't be, but they're on their phone and they're being
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Speaker 3: bullied or they're being made fun of. And and this
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Speaker 3: isn't everyone, but it's a large enough cohort to really
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Speaker 3: have to stand up and have conversations about this. So
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Speaker 3: twenty four percent due to bullying. We've got about twenty
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Speaker 3: percent select homeschooling due to academic reasons, so it's not
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Speaker 3: really working for them for academic reasons. We've got eighteen percent,
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Speaker 3: this is an interesting one. Eighteen percent of students or
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Speaker 3: families come to us for a philosophy of education, so
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Speaker 3: they they are looking for a better and a different
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Speaker 3: way to schooling their students and what they're exposed to
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Speaker 3: during schooling.
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Speaker 2: And there's a couple more to share.
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Speaker 3: So about thirteen percent utilize homeschooling for special needs or
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Speaker 3: like individualized learning. And we've got a large growing cohort.
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Speaker 3: Seven percent of families are traveling families. But the main
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Speaker 3: ones is the bullying, school's not working for academic reasons,
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Speaker 3: and then the philosophy of education homeschooling.
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Speaker 1: I want to say it isn't for everyone. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: that you'll probably shrug your shoulder and say, well, maybe
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Speaker 1: it could be. But I regularly have parents say I
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Speaker 1: could never do that. And the reality is if you
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Speaker 1: go to homeschool, some people say you have to be
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Speaker 1: in a privileged position to be able to have somebody
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Speaker 1: who is at home who can guide the children through
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Speaker 1: their learning and be be a participant in their child's learning.
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Speaker 1: With double income households, that certainly makes that challenging. What
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Speaker 1: kind of families thrive in this homeschooling environment.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, again, a very wide variety. But it isn't for everyone.
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Speaker 3: But it is for a lot more people than you think,
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Speaker 3: and for a lot of parents who say they can't
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Speaker 3: do it, they can. But it also might not be
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Speaker 3: the best thing for you and or your family or.
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Speaker 2: Your lifestyle situation.
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Speaker 3: But the beauty of what we've been able to do
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Speaker 3: in our program is our program's written to the student.
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Speaker 3: The amount of times we hear parents and you know,
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Speaker 3: whether it's leaving us a five star review or they're
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Speaker 3: just emailing us and going my child.
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Speaker 2: I have not seen this child in years.
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Speaker 3: I thought I lost my child, and now they're back
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Speaker 3: because they're in an environment where they can flourish and
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Speaker 3: they feel like they're you know, they're in that environment
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Speaker 3: where they can be themselves, which is super unique and unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: I have two more questions about homeschooling. One of them
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Speaker 1: is a massive concern for many many families, and it
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Speaker 1: certainly something that we've struggled in our own homeschooling experience,
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Speaker 1: and that is socialization. How do students that are studying
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Speaker 1: from home, who are doing the homeschool curriculum, how do
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Speaker 1: they connect with peers and what opportunities are there for
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Speaker 1: that consistent socialization that children get at school. We've found
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Speaker 1: that it requires vastly more effort and frankly more money
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Speaker 1: to have the kids enrolled in different extracurricual activities so
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Speaker 1: they can have contact and it's still not the same
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Speaker 1: as having the daily interaction with a school buddy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's probably one of the top three, I guess
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Speaker 3: biggest initial roadblocks for parents. I would sit on the
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Speaker 3: other side of that and go Homeschooling kids can and
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Speaker 3: many of them are more socialized. Socialization doesn't mean how
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Speaker 3: much time you spend with another child, it's the quality
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Speaker 3: of those interactions with another child.
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Speaker 1: Yea, it's about building friendships. It's about it's about having
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Speaker 1: the having somebody that you can ring or go down
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Speaker 1: the street and bang on the door and say how
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Speaker 1: let's go for a bike ride. And the local school
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Speaker 1: seems to facilitate that in a in a better way.
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Speaker 1: I just we have not been able to crack that egg.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, look absolutely, and I'd be lying, but I didn't
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Speaker 3: say of course, yeah, of course. It's easy to see
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Speaker 3: your mates at school every day because you're in the
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Speaker 3: same classroom seven hours a day with them. But there's
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Speaker 3: lots and lots of homeschooling families around. There's lots of
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Speaker 3: online homeschooling communities. I mean, we have a community. You'll
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Speaker 3: be surprised. There's probably more families than you realize now
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Speaker 3: doing it. And you know, often a lot of families
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Speaker 3: do lots of meetups so they can go to local parks,
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Speaker 3: they can do sort of activities together to your point earlier.
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Speaker 3: You know, my daughter, she goes to gymnastics, she goes
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Speaker 3: to swimming. We've got a few friends around the street
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Speaker 3: that she hangs out with. We have a community for
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Speaker 3: our students, but it's more for the parents right now,
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Speaker 3: where you know, you can connect and collaborate and hey,
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Speaker 3: where are you from? Our cool we're doing this. And
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Speaker 3: we've actually had families who have been traveling around the
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Speaker 3: country and they met up at at a caravan park
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Speaker 3: and they found out now you're doing the same program,
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Speaker 3: and you know, so.
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Speaker 2: That will start to evolve absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Having the CEO of the largest homeschooling organization in
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Speaker 1: the country and a podcast is wonderful for me because
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Speaker 1: I've got some skin in the game, and this one
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Speaker 1: is very much about me getting some I don't know, therapy.
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Speaker 1: That's the wrong with getting some expert advice from you
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Speaker 1: at a personal level. Having said that, I suspect that
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Speaker 1: a lot of people would be wondering the same thing.
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Speaker 1: My second youngest daughter is going into grade ten next year.
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Speaker 1: Year nine was going to be a year off school,
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Speaker 1: a year homeschooling, and then we were going to reintegrate
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Speaker 1: her into the school system. But as the years progressed
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Speaker 1: and we've seen the delight that she's experienced, and as
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Speaker 1: she's identified that she really likes what she's doing as well,
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Speaker 1: we've started a second guess that the difficulty that we're facing,
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Speaker 1: or at least the perceived difficulty that we're facing, is
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Speaker 1: that she has very high academic aspirations. She wants to
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Speaker 1: go to university, she wants to participate in medicine. That's
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Speaker 1: the direction she wants to travel. And there's that little
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Speaker 1: as a result of a lack of knowledge on my part,
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Speaker 1: there's that little whisper, that little niggle behind my left
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Speaker 1: ear saying, I think you need to get it back
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Speaker 1: into school. I think she needs to go and get
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Speaker 1: a proper year twelve graduation and get an ATAR so
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Speaker 1: that she can get into university and go down that pathway.
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Speaker 1: What's your response when people start to look at those
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Speaker 1: lady years of high school and say traditional schooling, homeschooling,
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Speaker 1: How viable is the alternative model?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, first of all, very good question, and I could
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Speaker 3: maybe give you a little bit of therapy on it.
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Speaker 3: As you said, No, So this is the exact reason
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Speaker 3: why we've created our Grade eleven and Grade twelve University
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Speaker 3: Pathway program. So we released it last year with the
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Speaker 3: only company in the country, that organization that offers this.
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Speaker 1: I didn't, So this was this was not a setup question.
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Speaker 3: This was it and that wasn't a setup. But it
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Speaker 3: was a great setup, you know, a good segue. But no,
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Speaker 3: in all honesty, because you're right, there's a segment of
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Speaker 3: students who still do want to pursue that. There's a
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Speaker 3: segment of students that just want to go through TAFE.
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Speaker 3: There's a segment of students that just have to finish
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Speaker 3: high school because you now legally have to be registered, right.
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Speaker 3: There's there's a segment of students that want to go
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Speaker 3: into apprenticeship. So there's so many different pathways post that
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Speaker 3: year twelve mark, so we created eleven and twelve.
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Speaker 2: One of the biggest unique differences is we don't have exams. Now.
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Speaker 3: For some people say, oh my god, how do you
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Speaker 3: test validity and viability of their skills and knowledge? And
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Speaker 3: first of all, I don't know about you, but whenever
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Speaker 3: I did an exam, I would just cram the night before,
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Speaker 3: have mass memory holding, and then the next day I
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Speaker 3: do the exam, and then the day after I've forgotten
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Speaker 3: what I need to learn now.
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Speaker 2: Again, that's probably more on me in the way that I.
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Speaker 3: Approach exams, but for a lot of kids it brings
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Speaker 3: anxiety and a lot of pressure, and you know, because
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Speaker 3: your whole year is going to be governed based off
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Speaker 3: this one percentage that you get at the end of
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Speaker 3: the year. I mean, I don't know about you, but
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Speaker 3: that doesn't breed. Hey, if you do something and you
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Speaker 3: don't do it correctly, you get another chance to better
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Speaker 3: and learn from that. But back to the grade eleven
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Speaker 3: and twelve is it's assessment based throughout the year, right,
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Speaker 3: so throughout the years that are putting all the pressure
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Speaker 3: and one element towards the end. You do assessments for
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Speaker 3: each subject throughout the year. They get marked if they
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Speaker 3: from what our teachers and just to be clear on this,
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Speaker 3: only grade eleven and twelve we have teacher markting, so
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Speaker 3: it's you know, all the other programs sort of self
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Speaker 3: led and self marked, and then you send that back
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Speaker 3: over to the department.
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Speaker 2: Just want to be clear on that, And.
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Speaker 3: Essentially you do assessments throughout the year from there, if
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Speaker 3: you've passed and you've done a good piece of work,
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Speaker 3: it'll get marked off. If it doesn't, our teacher will go, hey,
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Speaker 3: we need to real look at this redo that resubmit
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Speaker 3: it and give them an opportunity to learn it.
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Speaker 2: Right. That's I think that's the main stay there.
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Speaker 3: And we have relationships with pretty much every major university
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Speaker 3: in the country and essentially they see Yuku certification at
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Speaker 3: the end of the year just the same they see
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Speaker 3: other schools education parameters.
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Speaker 2: So you can go through you can do a grade eleven,
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Speaker 2: grade twelve.
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Speaker 3: A lot of our students in grade eleven and twelve,
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Speaker 3: they're that sort of age range as well, where you know,
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Speaker 3: a number of them will they'll have a part time
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Speaker 3: job and they'll work half a day and they'll do
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Speaker 3: their schooling. I mean, they're already earning money and they're
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Speaker 3: already in the society and they're functioning and they got
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Speaker 3: a little bit of a head start as well. So
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Speaker 3: from that perspective you can and we've also got relationships
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Speaker 3: as well with your other Cardiff University UK, We've got
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Speaker 3: some American one, so we'll pretty much have any university
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Speaker 3: that a student really wants to go to, we have
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Speaker 3: that direct relationship.
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Speaker 1: Britt Let's do a lightning round, very short answers, one word,
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Speaker 1: one sentence. Are you up for it? Seven quick lightning
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Speaker 1: round questions?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: I mean, as you can tell by the start of
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Speaker 3: this podcast, I struggle to give one word answers.
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Speaker 2: I should be a politician. Let's check off and I'll
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Speaker 2: do my best with one words.
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Speaker 1: What's the biggest misconception about the homeschooling that you would
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Speaker 1: like to bust right now? It's not for me morning
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Speaker 1: person or a night out when it comes to homeschooling generally,
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Speaker 1: what's going to work for most people most of the time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, very different, it's split.
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Speaker 3: The beauty about homeschooling is you can build it around
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Speaker 3: your lifestyle. We have some families who don't start doing
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Speaker 3: any work until like one two o'clock in the afternoon. Wow,
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Speaker 3: once you realize it for homeschooling, and again I told
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Speaker 3: you I can't do a short answer. I'm sorry, But
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Speaker 3: when you realize that, you know, the baseline of homeschooling
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Speaker 3: is you can do nineteen minutes to two hours a
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Speaker 3: day and you will go through the entire curriculum at
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Speaker 3: the same pace anyone would if they're doing a.
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Speaker 2: Full school day.
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Speaker 3: Now you're going to look at that and go oh wow,
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Speaker 3: and then you can plan days and other things in
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Speaker 3: and around that.
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Speaker 1: One essential resource for every homeschooling family.
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Speaker 3: I think things like, you're in all fairness, I'm not
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Speaker 3: just blowing smoke up your pipe, but learning to be
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Speaker 3: a better parent and understanding what it's like to be
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Speaker 3: a parent, because the decision of homeschooling will become quite well,
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Speaker 3: I believe it will become quite natural and easy when
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Speaker 3: you're in alignment with how you want your family unit
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Speaker 3: to be.
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Speaker 1: Lightning around Numberfore, scariest thing about starting to home school
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Speaker 1: that you.
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Speaker 3: Feel that you've put so much pressure that you feel
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Speaker 3: your child's entire education is wrapped up in this. We
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Speaker 3: put too much pressure of it. It's like I remember
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Speaker 3: when I got taken out of a school for a day,
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Speaker 3: I thought, oh no, am I going to be behind?
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Speaker 3: Like the pressure parents put on their kid being taken
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Speaker 3: out of school for a week or two weeks or
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Speaker 3: six weeks or even six months. It's not as big
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Speaker 3: a end outcome as you're probably.
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Speaker 1: Homeschooling in five years. What's changed now?
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Speaker 3: You legally have to be registered at school till you're
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Speaker 3: seventeen and there's a lot of children who aren't registered
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Speaker 3: in school, and that's becoming that. I guess they're trying
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Speaker 3: to put some provisions around it because they know that
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Speaker 3: it's no longer sort of an underbealley way of educating,
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Speaker 3: and they realize that you can actually have many many
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Speaker 3: and we have many successful students. One of our thirteen
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Speaker 3: year old boys actually got accepted into one of our
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Speaker 3: university partners, and it's because he's a genius. And so
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Speaker 3: it's yeah, it's changed in so many ways.
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Speaker 1: Two more, Every homeschooling parent should know finish the sentence.
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Speaker 1: Every homeschooling parent should know.
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Speaker 2: That you're doing the best that you can with what
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Speaker 2: you have.
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Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is, again, as parents,
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Speaker 3: we put so much pressure on ourselves to try and
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Speaker 3: make sure that we're not making any wrong decisions, et cetera.
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Speaker 2: But we're also still learning and evolving ourselves. You know.
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Speaker 3: I think if we relieve ourselves from having so much
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Speaker 3: pressure on our shoulders, you know, and pat yourself on
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Speaker 3: the back, take a few deep breaths. I think it's
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Speaker 3: you know that you're doing the best that you can,
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Speaker 3: and if you're not getting what you want from your
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Speaker 3: family units. Where I always go back to is well,
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Speaker 3: start listening to more podcasts, educate yourself, you know, understand
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Speaker 3: where we're lacking as a family unit, and look to
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Speaker 3: grow and prosper in that.
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Speaker 1: Do you have any questions for me?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? How do you handle sex daughters? And I want
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Speaker 2: it to like, I mean, I love it. First of all,
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Speaker 2: talk to me about having sex daughters.
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Speaker 1: So the first thing I would say, I mean a
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Speaker 1: lot of people sort of say things like, are ge
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Speaker 1: your poor thing? Or well, what did you do wrong
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Speaker 1: in the last life? I get that a lot, or
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Speaker 1: don't you have a TV? And my response to that
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Speaker 1: is fairly consistently well, number one, we do have a TV,
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Speaker 1: but we found much more fun things to do than
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Speaker 1: watch TV, hence the six kids. But at a more
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Speaker 1: serious and fundamental level, having six daughters has been the
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Speaker 1: just the delight and thrill of my life. Is extremely hard,
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Speaker 1: it's absolutely tiring, but they are just the greatest, the
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Speaker 1: greatest delight. And anyone who has a child and has
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Speaker 1: those moments knows what it's like when your ten year
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Speaker 1: old walks down the corridor and says I need a
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Speaker 1: hug and falls into your arms or when your teenager
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Speaker 1: is going through a little crisis and you sit down
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Speaker 1: and spend some time with them and they sob on
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Speaker 1: your shoulder, Or when you watch the delight as they
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Speaker 1: eat a food that you've described as delicious for the
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Speaker 1: first time and their eyes light up and they go, oh,
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Speaker 1: my goodness, this is incredible. This is now my favorite food.
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Speaker 1: Or just watching them, just watching them playing on the
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Speaker 1: sand of the beach, or throwing a frisbee to each
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Speaker 1: other in the park. Those moments you look at I
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Speaker 1: look at my wife Clytlie and I just say, wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have done it any different. This is the greatest joy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we love it. We love it. Interested in chatting with
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Speaker 1: you a getting down the track. I think that our
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Speaker 1: audience is going to love this. I think that they're
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Speaker 1: going to really respond well to it and just appreciate
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Speaker 1: your time so much. Brett. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's a pleasure.
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