THEAC

Hoorah! We are finally back online..everything takes a little longer in Tasmania.

THEAC- Tasmanian Home Education Advisory Council...

As a Home Educating Expat you tend to fly under the raider of compulsory schooling laws and regulations. At least in HK that is usually the case. Moving home to Australia means attending to all those nasty regulations, for us it's for the first time.
So far, I'm pleased to report that the process has been relatively pain free, pleasant even!
We contacted THEAC around 6 months ago and informed them we were a home educating family, hell bent on not sending our children to school and began the process of 'registering'. We were informed of the requirements and sent a newsletter outlining a lot of the contacts and support groups available to us here.
Writing a two page outline of the how, why, when and what of our eclectic home ed. philosophy sounds like a straight forward task, honestly a two volume outline would have been easier! But we did it and now that we are here, have what's termed 'provisional registration'. A lady will pay us a 'monitoring visit' in two months time and see what the calves have been up to. As long as they're not locked in a cupboard when she arrives we should be good to go.
All going well, the next step is 'full registration' when she'll pat us on the back and say "see you in two years"....Sounds simple doesn't it.. only time will tell.