Exemption! The word can put the fear into any prospective homeschooling parents heart. I can only speak for myself when I say putting together a detailed description of what and how I am going to teach my children was daunting. Thankfully I had a few friends who had been down that path and were able to help me. Still after submitting a detailed and lengthy document, I was still lacking in the area of maths. It was time to avoid my lack of maths appreciation and dive into some research. Bottom line, I wanted to stick with the curriculum that my children were being taught in school. I think it is a very valuable way to learn numeracy, strategies are taught then after children are taught to think around a problem they are taught how to work it out on paper. For someone who was taught by rote, and now has forgotten so much of it, thinking strategically about problems was a skill I naturally developed since I had forgotten the process taught. With these new tools under my belt I began to write out my plan for Maths. I struggle to believe I am saying this, but I'm actually looking forward to it.
Once I have submitted my Maths plan, I hope to achieve the exemptions. Then by that time it will probably time to leave the country and we won't need them anyway! Such is life, and the experience of writing an exemption should prove useful, as I am bound to have to do it all again at some point.
Praying for the big tick from the Ministry of Education.
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