Homeschooling High School

A guide to plotting your path through homeschooling the high school years and beyond in South Africa

Are you looking for an alternative to the mainstream educational system?

Here is all the info you need to guide your decisions:

ISBN: 9781432303662

Format: Softcover

Publisher: Random Struik

Pages: 168

Price: R200.00 (or R150 if you collect from Shirley)

To order: Email shirleyerwee “at” gmail.com [ use @ instead of “at”]

Homeschooling children at high school level strikes fear into the hearts of many parents. They need information and answers to their questions. And with the current educational and unemployment problems in South Africa, young people need clear direction and guidance to help them achieve their goals.

In addition to exploring the popular ways to gaining a recognised matric certificate outside the formal school system, Homeschooling High School also challenges readers to rethink their values, particularly the value they place on certification, and to consider some unconventional or alternative paths to success.

In a clearly presented format, the book includes advice on legal matters, identifying appropriate courses, sourcing study material, tips on entrepreneurship, financing tertiary studies and the testimonies of successful homeshooled graduates. Homeschooling High School is a comprehensive guide to plotting a path through high school and beyond.

The author

Shirley Erwee is the mother of six children and she has been homeschooling since 1997. She is the co-author of the three literature-based home education programmes for South Africans in the Footprints on Our Land series, the author of ABC Fun & 1-2-3, a homeschooling programme for pre-schoolersand she offers a course for studying for the GED®, a matric alternative at Online GED South Africa. She has also published various homeschooling products in digital format (ebooks).

Shirley is passionate about encouraging home educating families to enjoy the many benefits of this educational choice. She is well known in the South African homeschooling community and she exhibits her curriculum at the various homeschool expos which are held annually in major centres around South Africa.

She offers support, advice and encouragement to homeschooling parents via a number of homeschool egroups, forums and social media support groups online, a monthly South African homeschooling newsletter to about 2000 subscribers, homeschool parent workshops and her websites, www.south-african-homeschool-curriculum.com and www.shirleys-preschool-activities.com, www.startinghomeschooling.co.za and http://onlineged.co.za. She is also active in the local Overberg homeschool support group.

Shirley graduated from Rhodes University in the 90’s with an Honours Degree in English Language Teaching.