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Some Gloriavale homeschooling families are living and learning in overcrowded hostels that could be unsafe and some of the children are struggling to write, the Education Review Office has found.
The findings are detailed in a summary of the agency's special review of homeschooling by 28 families at the West Coast Christian community, which was requested by the Secretary for Education Ellen MacGregor-Reid last September.
More than 100 children, aged between six and 16, had been granted certificates of exemption from enrolment at registered schools by the Ministry of Education.
Documents released by the Education Review Office (ERO) include a letter from acting chief executive Ruth Shinoda to Macgregor-Reid on 13 March this year, concluding that Gloriavale parents were not meeting legal homeschooling requirements.
