HomeOrders / Legalities
Is it possible to order only part of Love2Learn and not the entire Curriculum?
Certainly! Love2Learn Curriculum offers a substantially broader, richer and more varied curriculum in regard to its extended Core Subjects and Disciplined Studies with a wider subject range when compared with mainstream schooling. You have the flexibility to purchase a single subject or as many subjects as you wish for any given academic year.
Please note that unlike our extended Core Subjects and Disciplined Studies, our Core Packages are not divisible and need to be purchased as a single unit. You still have the flexibility to add any number of Disciplined Studies if you so desire.
Is there a cut off date for orders for any given year?
Love2Learn will accept order at any time of the year, right throughout every academic year. However, over the Christmas/New Year Festive season we have a cut off date of the first Friday in December due to the fact that our offices close and re-open the second week of January. We work on a six to seven week lead time for fulfillment of an order subject to books and resources being in print. We would recommend that in order for you to receive your order by early-December, and in turn be in a position to start in mid-January, you should place your order by early-October at the latest. In addition, Cambridge offers two examination sittings, one in May (not all subjects) and the other in October/November.
What is your Free Bridging Programme?
This programme is supplied free-of-charge as a courtesy, to help to tide you over while your Love2Learn books arrive! We dispatch the Bridging Course via email only. The material covered in the Bridging Course, while constituting valuable learning, is not the same as that covered in your Love2Learn Core Curriculum. It is not supplied with an Engine Room or teacher guidelines, but is designed as a scheme of work to be covered for each subject per week over a twelve week period. (You may well not have to use it that long – but the course spans this period of time anyway.) It requires you to obtain books from the library and to develop your own lesson plans around these books, until such time as your Love2Learn Order is ready for collection/delivery. It does not replace or attempt to replace Love2Learn Curriculum. It is designed to be a tool to assist you in the transition period from “school” to “home-school” and to provide you with themes of study while you await the arrival of your Love2Learn Order. In essence it also means that you as a family will not have to spend weeks staring at each other across the dining room table, whilst you await the arrival of your Love2Learn Curriculum resources.
What are my rights in terms of the law as far as home-schooling my children is concerned? And what do I need to do in order to remove them from school?
Each country has its own laws and regulations that govern home-schooling. We would recommend that you contact the Home-Schooling Legal Defence Association in your country in order to get clarity on what these are.
In South Africa, you can contact the Pestalozzi Trust, which is the Home-schooling legal defence association on
+012 330 1337, or visit their web site at http://www.pestalozzi.org
In terms of the Constitution of South Africa and the Education Act that governs schooling in our country, home-schooling is fully recognized and 100% legal, subject to certain criteria, which are listed below.
Love2Learn does not require that you have to register with the Department of Education before we will sell you any part of our Curriculum. The choice is yours. It is your legal, constitutional right to home-school; and very broadly speaking, the Department of Education can essentially only deny this right on the following grounds:
- If you being the designated teacher are illiterate.
- If anything clandestine is happening in your home (e.g. drugs, alcohol abuse, child abuse etc.) and/or if the environment in which you are home-schooling is not suitable for learning – e.g. if your husband runs an engineering business from the room next door and your children’s teeth are too busy rattling for them to be able to concentrate!
- If you are home-schooling with a view to inculcate some other form of governance such as Apartheid or Communism into your children.
Again, we reiterate that the decision to/not to register rests with you, the parent and NOT Love2Learn Curriculum. We would encourage you to seek advice before making your decision.
In regard to removing your children from school – there is no hard and fast answer to this, save to say that a school may not interfere directly with your decision. At best they may require you to sign a “release form”, which states that due to the fact that your child is no longer under their “jurisdiction” from an education point of view, you release them with immediate effect from the obligation of having to educate your child. This we believe is quite justifiable; and given that you are going to be the person responsible, you should have no qualms with signing such a form.
