.. but not if gov.uk has anything to do with it! This blog is temporarily focusing on its latest harassment of home educating families.
posted by Gill at 9:27 AM
Home education consultation 2009
Statistical incidence of child abuse in home educating families (less than 50% the normal rate)
"Graham Badman's [Blogging] Guide to Home Education"
"Parents could be banned from educating children at home in a move branded a 'very bad day for civil liberties'" - The Telegraph, 11th June 2009
"Graham Badman and Ed Balls declare war on Home Educators" - Blogdial, 11th June 2009
"It really is no longer up to the parent any more to decide on the actual suitability of the form and content, and they therefore cannot be held responsible when that state-determined education fails their child." - Dare To Know, 11th June 2009
"Badman and Balls have stitched us up" - Renegade Parent, 11th June 2009
"What a surprise, Ed Balls accepting the recommendation to exercise more influence and control over home and family life!" - Phil Walker, 11th June 2009
"The release of the Badman Review into Home Education today is yet another example of this government's controlling, heavy handed approach to society." - UKIP Chairman Paul Nuttall MEP, 11th June 2009
"Frankly it is plain that this Government are very keen to make sure families lose their basic rights." - Mum6Kids, 11th June 2009
"If home educators can be treated this way, who will be next?" - Dani at the Greenhouse, 11th June 2009
"Those of us who take a largely autonomous approach take the ‘rights’ of our children far more seriously than the state is ever going to." - Firebird, 11th June 2009
"Revolutions have been started over this sort of thing." - Bishop Hill, 11th June 2009
"Under the plans, parents will by law have to register their child once a year with their local council, and provide a statement of what and how they intend to teach their children over the coming year. An inspector from the local authorities – a headteacher, social worker or child psychologist – will visit the family once a year to assess whether the education promised by the parents is being delivered." - Guardian, 11th June 2009
"Understandably, home educators are reeling at the prospect of justifying themselves to a state that so often fails both in education and welfare." - Mark Field, Conservative MP, 12th June 2009
"Our whole approach to education is based on our children’s intrinsic desire to learn. They are in the driving seat. If they want to make plans (which they often do, actually, being the children of parents who love a plan!) then they do." - Allie at the Greenhouse, 12th June 2009
"Autonomous learning will not be permitted (the reviewer, Badman, does not believe it is successful and discredits all available research that reveals just how successful the autonomous approach is)." - Embracing Life, 12th June 2009
"The review lacks intellectual rigour, independence or impartiality." - Prof. Bruce Stafford and Mrs Maire Stafford, 12th June 2009
"Essentially following the government trend to deal with people outside the established legal process by shifting the rules so that you become guilty of breaking a law you have no defence against." - Working Dad, 13th June 2009
"LPUK will oppose changes to HE. Parents must be free to educate children as they see fit, they are yours not the State's." - Ian Parker-Joseph, leader of the Libertarian Party, 12th June 2009
"This Labour government has been especially bad at dealing with difference, and its latest stance against home schooling is indicative of this lack of tolerance and understanding." - Philip Salter, Adam Smith Institute, 13th June 2009
"This is our all-powerful State's angry response to a growing rebellion, by mothers and fathers who are sick of seeing their children bullied, neglected and miseducated in the state education system, and rightly think they can do a better job." - Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 14th June 2009
"There is something very rotten stalking the corridors of power." - Amy and Elaine, 14th June 2009
"If you tolerate this, then your children will be next." - ATS, 14th June 2009
"An English Man’s Home Is His Castle. But not any more thanks to Mr Badman, Mr Balls & the Labour Government." - Merry, 14th June 2009
"People who elect not to send their children to school are troubling to the rest of us. They offend our sense of the way things should be: after all, we went to school – and while they may not have been the happiest days of our lives, going to class made us into the people we are today." - Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times, 14th June 2009
"The Badman Report on the Review of Elective Home Education in England is a travesty of report writing in that its conclusion appears to have been decided before pen touched paper, but worst of all, it is yet another attack on the basic freedoms that we have taken for granted for so long." - Alfred the Ordinary, 14th June 2009
"I wonder if the government has plans to monitor and inspect all those parents with preschool children too? Or school children during school holidays?" - The Chicken Shed, 15th June 2009
"Clearly, I need to have done lesson structure 17, attainment target 3.5, assessment 4, key stage 3, time allotted 40 minutes, test assessment due date 12/10/09." - The inimitable GRIT, 15th June 2009
"The review recognises the diversity of home educators, but fails to take this in to account in its ‘one size fits all’ recommendations." - Emma, 15th June 2009
"I find it outrageous that home educators should be singled out for inspection in ways that the state would never allow for its own charges." - Lord Lucas, 15th June 2009
"By only using point 7 Mr Badman has, in my opinion, taken part of the Submission out of its well balanced context, to give readers the impression that the Church of England is against Elective Home Education. That's more than Bad. That's Evil." - Mieke, 18th June 2009
Autonomously home-educating, freedom-loving, soapbox-waffling, sometimes understanding & forgiving, trying-to-be-graceful, I-Chinging, organic-gardening, book-loving, can't-dance-for-toffee, finally-got-to-grips-with-the-bank-balance, sweet-talking woman.
because it's free,
it's effective
and it's open
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2 Comments:
:-)
Seems to me that, at the very least, the answer is not ALWAYS to throw money at problems.
Yes. Pity it'd put the economists out of business. And the educationalists... and so many other people...
Ah well. I'm sure there are other things they can be doing ;-)
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