Episode 7 Educate It Up
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Episode 7: Educate It Up
Sunday 19th October 2025 / 26th Rabi al Thani 1447AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
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Episode 7: Educate It Up
Sunday 19th October 2025 / 26th Rabi al Thani 1447AH 14h00 - 15h00 (CAT)
Transcript
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Dear listeners, it's Yom Aad and it's just past 2:00 p.m. on this 26th day of
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Rabiani 14:47 ah which corresponds to Sunday the 19th of October 2025.
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I'm Zad Plachies and with me are my co-hosts Nabia and Issa Plachis. Welcome to Level Up where we listen, learn, and
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grow inshallah with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's guidance and we break down the week's news and talk about what really
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matters to young Muslims today. Our WhatsApp line is open. The number is 0727861548 or you can call in on 01854702.
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Nabia, what's in the lineup for today?
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Well, we've been leading up to and connecting education on many aspects of our shows over the past few weeks.
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Right. So today on the topic of education, you might have noticed that
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we don't have a guest to interview and we're discussing homeschooling.
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So instead of doing the traditional thing and interviewing an educator or a parent or someone from the department,
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we thought we would level it up and have some fun by interviewing a child who is and has been homeschooled.
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And who might this child be? It's none other than Isaachis.
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Welcome to level up Issa.
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Okay. And since Zad, you are the parent who teaches him, I will be conducting the interview. Inshallah.
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Inshallah. So, it's not going to be bias. Isa, we can't cheat.
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Definitely not bias. And it's also to show because a lot of people, you know,
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when we say that he's homeschooled or he says he's homeschooled, then they look at me and they ask me, so how's it going? And I'm like, I don't know. This is the parent who teaches him. Anyway,
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so Issa, I'm going to ask you some questions, and inshallah, you're going to hopefully help us to all understand
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um homeschooling from a child's perspective. Inshallah. Inshallah. Amen. Okay, Issa,
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first question. How old are you? I am 11 years old.
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Okay. Alhamdulillah. And um how long have you been doing homeschooling?
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So I started homeschooling on the 1st of January 2021.
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I was actually accepted by another primary school in um for for grade one.
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But CO hit uh when I was in grade R in 2020
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and I was uh at home uh most of the time
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uh doing online online school and and you guys my parents
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were helping me through the year. So it was kind of like homeschooling
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but I have been do been formally homeschooled for the past 5 years.
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Okay. So um 5 years is a good amount of time to gauge if someone likes or
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dislikes something. Uh, Issa, so do you like or do you dislike homeschooling?
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And then please tell us why. Yes. So, I love doing homeschooling.
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I really enjoy being homeschooled because I can wake up whenever I want.
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Even though I still wake up quite early, I get to set my own timet.
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Uh, I can start my work straight after Fra and finish my school day earlier
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than other kids. I can have many breaks and I also
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and also I get to play whenever I want.
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That's interesting. um as a parent and someone who's traditionally schooled and mostly as a parent, the idea of many
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breaks that you said and the fact that you play a lot worries me a bit though. Hey,
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can I can I just interject there because um I'm not sure about this playing all the time and the many breaks thing as
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well as the teacher. Um, so I just want to clarify that uh what he thinks happens at homeschooling and what
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actually happens is two different things. He does get breaks. Um, and it's not, you know, like at 10:00 like we used to have when we were at school,
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like 10 to 20 or whatever it was. Um, he does have a little bit more leniency in terms of the breaks, but it's not like
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every 5 minutes there's a break and he doesn't get to play whenever he wants.
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like he doesn't like work for 5 minutes and then play. He obviously has to do his classes and then he gets to play. So
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um I don't think it should be like misconstrued that um you know the homeschooling thing is not structured. There is a structure.
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Uh it's just he has more time. Uh that's just I just wanted to clarify that.
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Thank you for clarifying that. the teacher of Issa just to make sure that because now I I
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said that I'm a bit worried but yeah I think I think you're right in terms of the leniency and also um it's not
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completely rigid is is basically what you're saying but anyway um Issa you
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said that you set your own timetable so how do you do that
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so my dad makes a generic timetable structure at the beginning of each year
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and I use that for each day of the week and I plan what work I'm going to do for each day.
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Okay. So again, um he plans what work he's going to do for the day.
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Okay. Okay. Let's uh like he said, I give him the timetable so there's a structure, right? Um in terms of what he's going to do each day.
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Uh let's hear from him first. I think I think let me not get involved because like you said, it's supposed to be from a child's perspective.
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From a child's perspective. So let me not get involved. Let's hear from him and then we can discuss it um as an educator. Yes.
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Okay. Okay. So basically from a child's perspective and then from an elder cakes's perspective in um another
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segment or later or whenever time persists. Okay. So um you say that um
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you have a timetable that you create but um what curriculum do you use? Is it CAPS or is it IEB?
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Uh so when I started homeschooling I used to have workbooks from Impact a
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service provider for grade 1, 2 and three.
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But uh it became too much and a lot of the stuff was repeated. So in grade four
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and grade 5, my dad showed me other resources to use.
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So now I find interesting stuff on Google. I read the books we have at
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home. Alhamdulillah, we uh have a lot of educational resources.
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And sometimes when I go out, I get to learn some really cool stuff.
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So wait, wait, wait. I think I thought you're not getting involved.
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No, wait. I think he he redeemed himself in that in that answer. Okay.
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So I don't need to say much. He's kind of set the record straight. Okay. Educate the butt out a bit. Um,
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alhamdulillah. So where do you go, Issa, to learn stuff?
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So, I get to go to a lot of events with you guys, my parents, where I learn
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different things. If it's a car launch,
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I get to learn about new vehicles and the way they operate, which helps because I do a lot of uh car reviews.
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If it's like uh a penguin random house media event, I learn about the different
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books that are coming out and gives me a chance to see what I can read.
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But it's not only uh events where I learn.
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Alhamdulillah, I have been to all nine provinces. I think before I was even 10 years old.
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I think it was last year we went to see the actual tropic of Capricorn in Limpo in Limpopo South Africa.
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Whereas if I'm in a classroom at a school, I would just read about it
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and wonder what it actually look like would actually look like.
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So there's tourist attractions, museums,
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nature reserves and different areas around South Africa
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that I've visited. Alhamdulillah, which helps me experience school not in VR,
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virtual reality, but in RR, reality.
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Alhamdulillah. real reality. That's very nice. Alhamdulillah, it's amazing. Um,
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besides the trips that you've mentioned before,
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what are some of the things that you most enjoy about homeschooling?
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Hm. Uh, so when I'm learning another language and even when there was like
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online videos in Africans to watch with impact, I would always be like, what did they say?
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But now my dad has shown me how to translate each sentence
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into English when I'm reading an African's book and it's easier for me to understand what I am reading. Okay.
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Alhamdulillah. Yeah, I know a lot. Um I did hear that the Africans in the in impact and all these videos they expect
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you to know Africans you know from grade one where they're teaching and they have these videos then they speak even the instructions in Africans. I saw your
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mind puzzled a bit but do you use can I just No no I just I just want to say something on the subject of Africans cuz he brought
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it up. Um I feel this is my personal opinion that people think that Africans is a difficult language and it's it's
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absolutely not. Um the reason why I'm saying that is that I feel again that um
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uh I'm not going to blame the educators but the there's either you went to a school where you had a teacher who
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didn't teach you um who their first language their home language wasn't Africans. So they already didn't understand the language and they're
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trying to teach you. Right? That's the one thing. or you have a teacher that was their home language was Africans and
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they speak Africans throughout the class expecting you to know what they are saying and like like he just said now
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and you're supposed to understand everything and I think that's one of the the advantages of homeschooling like he
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said where him and I can actually go back and forth and learn each word and what it means and construct the sentence
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and and then you know you actually um you find it easier to like you said to
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understand the language and it's not a difficult language to understand.
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No, it's not. But um as you know people who are still learning the grade 1's,
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grade twos and grade threes like you said um it might have been difficult if you weren't taught properly or if they
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uh like I was saying and you said if they had like um African speaking educators who would say their videos and
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ex and instructions in Africans with and going too fast I think I remember him saying about it's going too fast but
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Issa did you ever use Google translate for um the langage? languages. No, I I
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used to cheat and use Google Translate when I first started
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um maybe 3 years ago. But now I use an Africans to English dictionary
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and because I have translate so many words, I am hardly looking up new words
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and I can already translate most of the sentences in my head. Alhamdulillah.
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Alhamdulillah. That's good. And okay,
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away from that, I know a lot of people are always curious about this question,
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right? which is strange and we can say why later. I'm sure you have opinions always yet. So, Issa, you were at
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another school before you started homeschooling and you had friends. Don't you miss that?
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Uh, not really. Uh, I don't like seeing the same person every day. Now and again
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is fine. Plus now I get to meet new people and kids all the time everywhere I go.
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So I also learn different things from different people.
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I think uh that's quite important um in the sense that we we think that when
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we're at school we're going to need friends all the time or we as society are taught that we need friends all the time. And once we start getting to work,
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that all changes and it depends on the field that you're in, but sometimes you don't get to have
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friends, you know, like if you out on the road all the time, you traveling or whatever, you're meeting new people. So,
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I think ISA has already moved into that sort of career path. We're just saying in inverted commas. Um, and I'm not
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saying it's for everyone. So, obviously homeschooling is not for everyone, but um, you know, like there should be that
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that option because school itself is basically preparing you for an office type job where you're seeing the same people every day,
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is it not? Yeah, it is. Yeah.
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Okay. Uh, that's true. Okay. So, Issa,
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um, what is your biggest challenge of homeschooling? I don't have any challenges.
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Alhamdulillah.
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I'm I'm not I'm not going to say anything.
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Alhamdulillah. I think maybe he just doesn't want to hurt your or our feelings. Um, we'll leave it at that.
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But lastly, okay, we're going to put you on the spot now, Isa. Right. If you were to give a presentation to a classroom
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full of children and tell them why you think that they should be homeschooled,
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what would be um what would be your advice to them?
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What what is this last thing that you'll say to them?
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Homeschooling is not for everyone. It it is a lot of work because you do most of
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it yourself and some help from your parents.
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You need to make sure that you are constantly learning.
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It doesn't start and end in the classroom or at certain times.
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But there are a lot of reward rewards.
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You can do homeschooling anywhere in the world and never miss a day of school.
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You can have breaks whenever you want or need and as many as you like.
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Some schools only finish early on a Friday for Juma. But when you
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do homeschooling, if you start work early, you can finish early and there's
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no homework or extra work to do after school, which means you have more time to yourself.
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Alhamdulillah. So, I'm just saying on the record, uh, I didn't prep Issa yet.
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I don't know if Nabia and Issa rehearsed this before time. Definitely not because
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that whole break thing is a bit too much for me. You can have breaks as many as you like.
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Okay. But we heard from you and as the educator that um there is structure, but it's just not rigid. I get it. And
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alhamdulillah I think uh the homeschooling has really helped him to do this all on his o own. He's taken a lot of initiative. Alhamdulillah.
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Alhamdulillah. I think um we as parents always um want what's best for or what
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we think is best for ourselves and thinking it's good for our kids. Um but at the end of the day we have to always
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ask our kids what do they want? What do they really want or need?
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Yes, that that's so true. I think we should go for a break and we can just discuss it a little bit more after the break and we can talk about edu um
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articles in education inshallah and welcome back to level up. If you've
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just tuned in, we have been talking all about education and we have been discussing homeschooling.
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If if any of our dear listeners would like to ask any questions,
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our WhatsApp about homeschooling.
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Our WhatsApp line is open. The number is 0727861548
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Yes, alhamdulillah. We got to hear firsthand from a child who has been homeschooled for the past 5 years his own perspective.
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And Zad, you mentioned that firstly that um homeschooling is not for everyone and Issa mentioned that as well. Then you
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also mentioned that as parents, we think we know what's good for our children,
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but we also have to see from their perspective and their experiences.
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Yes. Um so I think you know like I said um you think you know what's best for
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your kid, right? But um you sometimes send your child say to a private school thinking that they're going to have a safe environment, maybe a better
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education. Um but then they get there and they don't get along with the other kids or they get bullied. Um or they just don't cope with the environment,
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right? and they actually you take them out and they actually perform better in a public school right so it really is personal preference at the end of the
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day and you know taking into account your child's needs and I definitely think that obviously homeschooling is not for everyone but at the same time
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neither is public school or private school you know like any schooling system um is like like we discussed
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earlier when you go and you start working there's different um circumstances or different settings that
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better suit different people. So in the same way the schooling environment should be preparing you for that environment and you know like be
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conducive in that way because every every child or every person has uh different set of skills a different set
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of personalities. I mean we we talk about um uh um disabilities as well. You
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know we do concessions and we see that on a daily basis.
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So some children can't cope in the so-called structure of a classroom um
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environment but some parents as well can't cope with or have the patience to actually homeschool their kids. They
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don't have time. So it's it it has to be a right fit for both parent and kid. Mhm.
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Um at the end of the day that's true. Yeah. No, I believe that.
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So and also about the fact that we are all completely different in every aspect in every way and and each one of your ch
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like if you have more than one child each one of your child children is different you know and they have
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different needs and they learn in a different way. So you have to also take that into consideration.
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Yeah. Because we sometimes think okay the one child is going to this school and they performing well so let's dump all three kids there and you know like
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it it will work out. And it I I say because I tutor these kids as well like maybe I'm not even far reaching but
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maybe 80% of the time it doesn't work out where all three kids can go to the same school. Sure. and and we growing up with, you know,
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like our parents not dumped us in in in one school, but uh obviously there comes with a discount if you have a a sibling
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there at the school, but um yeah, it it doesn't work anymore. Yeah. And and it's not that um you know,
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we're different or we're doing different things. It's actually we've always had this way. We've always had um not had
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this way but what I'm trying to say is it's always been that we are all different. It's just that now we are more aware of it whereas before it
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wasn't because I can remember before there used to be children who used to go to remedial class or if you have ADHD or
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um autism or something like that you you or dyslexia you were just supposed to get over it and um or they were labeled
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as like bad words basically. And now we're more in tune and we realize this
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and we need to realize that it's okay and we just need to work with it now.
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It's not you as a child shouldn't really be using this as an excuse if you really are lazy. You know, you shouldn't um you
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know be using this as an excuse. You shouldn't um say, "Oh, I've got this.
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I've got this. I've got this." No, it's not it's not that. It's the fact that maybe um as a as a child um you do have
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these disabil learning disabilities and it has been you know um diagnosed maybe you go to a child psychologist
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and as a parent um yes like I said you know there there come there come a time when our children do get lazy we also
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feel lazy sometimes so we do know that but we need to distinguish the difference between lazy and unmotivated
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and you know actually having learning disabilities and trying to work with that.
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Yes. Uh so yeah it comes from both the parent and the child like we said but also at the same time I think uh a lot
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of us as parents feel that it should fall on the educator or the school you know like it becomes their problem. You send them to the school and it becomes
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their problem. And it should actually start at home where we are aware like you say of what is happening at home in
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order to um you know go for an assessment to say you know the child is diagnosed they need to go to a special
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school or they need extra lessons or whatever it is. Um but yeah, let's move into uh I think is this is a whole
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another discussion um because we're going to obviously talk about learning disabilities concessions and whatever I think in maybe a future episode.
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Amen. But um in the news recently, like a day or so ago, there was something and and I think
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it's it's pertinent because we we talking about homeschooling. And one of the big things um that's not discussed
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with homeschooling is obviously uh how much cheaper it is in terms of price.
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We're not talking about in terms of time and resources and stuff, but in terms of, you know, if you actually look at the fee structure of sending a child to
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a public versus a private school, which we will do obviously in a in another episode inshallah. I mean, there's like a lot to talk about on education. Um,
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but now there's extra costs involved as well with sending your child to a school. And Nabia, you were telling me
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about an article that you read a few days ago. Um, and what what what was that about?
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So, there was an outrage. Wait, let me try and find it. Um, outrage over extortionate preschool graduation fees.
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Okay, so a Johannesburg daycare demands that parents pay 1,500 rand for their child's graduation.
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So, this is not like a a you know school term fee, uh a monthly fee for their education. This is at the end of the
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year their graduation. So it covers a miniature gown, um, photos and a party.
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Okay. So it's like a a what? It's it's like a mini metric farewell basically.
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Yes. But for um preschool, so before before they even start grade one, this is a graduation to finish preschool
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before they start, you know, grade school, grade one and stuff. And you would think that this is for a private school, right? It's not. It's for um these it's a it's a public school.
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Oh, okay. Yeah.
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Okay. That's interesting. Well, I I do know I did uh read part of the article and I know there I always look at the
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comments um either on the article or social media and I know there were people that were actually saying that um
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it was between 1,500 and 3,000 rand that some of these schools are charging.
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Yeah. Not like I said not for for education or anything. It's for this end of the year party and they actually made
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it compulsory. They were supposed to uh they they are supposed to pay it and if they don't pay they don't get their
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degree. They don't no they don't get their degree to graduate preschool to go to grade one.
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Wow. That's that's just crazy. But um I also read that um it's it's it's sad
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because the post started because I think it was either uh um a domestic worker or gardener or
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something that came to the employee employer. Yes. Yes.
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And and and then obviously the the other people in that though that that profession were also saying similar
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things. So, it's not even like um a mid-inccome household. It's, you know,
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people that can really not afford it that are being extorted.
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Yeah. It it was flatout extortion, they said. And it's and one of the thing one of the um things that this person had
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said the the worker I mean sorry the employer said was government schools do not require a daycare graduation
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certificate. It's it's actually to um increase fear amongst the um amongst the parents of the school.
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Yeah. I think um it's it's getting out of hand because even these um metric farewells I I read that somebody had
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spent I think was it like 160,000 rand for there was the car rental, there's
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the dress rental, there's the um photo package, there's the before um you know
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like inviting all the friends and family to be there. So there's snacks and whatever and then there's there's afterwards and what it's like a whole um
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ceremony basically and 160,000 rand for one night.
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Yeah. So they really going all out with these graduation and like again I keep saying it's not part of their education.
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So as a parent I'm very concerned about this because as it is fees for school
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are ridiculous or quite high and um that's monthly or you know as per term
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and now there's these added okay plus there's this added cost as it is throughout the year with um uniforms,
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textbooks, stationery,
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don't forget um traveling to and forth you know um after school curricular activities now graduation and if they
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don't pay this they don't graduate. So it's all very it's concerning.
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Yeah. No, it is it definitely is and that's why you know like you know most people will look for homeschooling but the thing is again it's not for
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everyone. It's also it's not just the fact that you know um maybe you might save on all of this. It's also that
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you it spending more time though. You know what I mean? And time is money as well. Time and your resources are money.
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So you have to look at the pros and cons of each environment. What is good for your child? And also think about their safety as well.
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Yeah, definitely. We've seen a a rise in like kidnappings and that type of thing. So
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um yeah, at the end of the day it comes down to personal preference. It comes down to um not everybody has a luxury of
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being at home with their child. Um you know because it is it's it's a luxury and also you you also can't just lump
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your children at a tutoring center or you know uh a homeschooling center because the department is very uh what is the word? Finicky about it.
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Strict.
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Yeah. Strict about it. Yeah. because uh if you're saying you're going to homeschool your child, you as a parent
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yourself has to actually homeschool your child.
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Yeah. But I think let's also discuss that in in another episode, inshallah.
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All the rules, regulations, what you as a parent need to do. Um it's it we're giving you a little bit of a teaser. So
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you can keep on listening every week inshallah. I mean um and yeah, we we going to be discussing this in more
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detail. Issa, I know you had something that you wanted to say about your graduation when you went from grade to to grade 1.
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Yeah. Um so um
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in grade R because uh because of co
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we had to do it at home. So you guys had to make like a gown and a hat and stuff for for me to graduate. Mhm.
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Uh maybe it was just like the trophy you had to pay for. Pay for. Oh, okay. Okay.
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So, yeah. Um there wasn't a lot of cost. Alhamdulillah.
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Alhamdulillah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, we learned all about homeschooling today thanks to a child who has been
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homeschooled and we've got his perspective and the educator sounded like he had a lot that he wanted to tell us. in terms of that. So inshallah we'll
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get to learn more about it. We'll also get to learn um more about and discuss more about concessions, facilitation,
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tutoring, the other aspects of education because education is on a wide scale but
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for today. Alhamdulillah that was a lot of information issa for that educator.
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um to Zak to our dear listeners for joining us on this lovely Sunday afternoon where we learned all about
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homeschooling and we we basically educated on homeschooling from a child's perspective. Alhamdulillah.
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Join us every Sunday inshallah from 2 to 3:00 p.m. right here on Radio Islam International. from myself, Nabiha,
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from Zad and from Issa. Enjoy your Sunday and we wish you a wonderful week ahead inshallah.
