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edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13152630134584799811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-52155623389042093312008-10-01T17:02:00.000+01:002008-10-01T17:02:00.000+01:00

Excellent! Now we just need a few acres of Scottish land on which to build our collective eco home ed paradise then. <BR/><BR/>LOL, this might turn into one of those mad conversations that actually changes the world without meaning to.. Don't blame me. Sun on screen, can't even see what I'm typing ;-)

Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09707661738889563273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-40934295104741009912008-10-01T14:08:00.000+01:002008-10-01T14:08:00.000+01:00

I turned up , knew no-one, english, single parent in a area dominated by 2 parent middle class families, only home edder they had ever encountered, daughter who would blank people.<BR/>They made me welcome, they never questioned my single status, they only asked the basic 'why aint you at school' a few times before word filtered through altogether a great experience :)

Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06254354965300832792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-1626319331031713282008-10-01T07:05:00.000+01:002008-10-01T07:05:00.000+01:00

.. And can you ask them how they'll feel about a million English HErs moving into their back yard please, Elaine? ;-)

Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09707661738889563273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-37953343727782589812008-09-30T20:24:00.000+01:002008-09-30T20:24:00.000+01:00

I think you are right the reasonable but firm approach that is so professional that schoolhouse have when consulted on home ed by officials ensures that they are listened to and their input is valued. <BR/>Scotland still functions as a country where communities self regulate and there is very little national input into local affairs. England has central government in the truest sense local

Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06254354965300832792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-35232613866150096742008-09-30T13:10:00.000+01:002008-09-30T13:10:00.000+01:00

Yes please, to the quiet life. Not much hope though at this rate. You turn your back for five minutes and they bring something in like this section 436A, which I'd completely missed and which presumably we're now forever stuck with. <BR/><BR/>Good point about Joy - sad to say.

Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09707661738889563273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-86040657888774838652008-09-30T12:46:00.000+01:002008-09-30T12:46:00.000+01:00

Well I'd agree with that to an extent - it certainly has worked with our LA, but for how long remains to be seen. Thing is though that Joy was living in an age which didn't have the litigation culture we now have, so officials could, presumably, make judgements from a place of humanity without fear of losing their job or being sued if their judgement was found to be inconsistent with official

cosmic seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05168914848999240658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-46458121674016899182008-09-30T12:42:00.000+01:002008-09-30T12:42:00.000+01:00

"and a wholesale shift towards totalitarianism, along with which HErs tend to get swept. "<BR/><BR/>Oh yes, I certainly agree about that, I don't think it's purely about HE, but I think clamping down on HE is the added bonus for them - well, more a slamming shut of *loopholes* as TPTDOTB would see us.<BR/><BR/>I swing between being terribly pessimistic and incredibly optimistic - on the

cosmic seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05168914848999240658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-13205634777292952232008-09-30T12:32:00.000+01:002008-09-30T12:32:00.000+01:00

Thinking of Joy Baker reminds me actually that she was facing an arguably more HE-hostile environment, but that she just kept repeatedly appealing to the humanity in the officials and politicians. Which <I>has</I> to still be there, somewhere..?

Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09707661738889563273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-47432703940004177682008-09-30T12:17:00.000+01:002008-09-30T12:17:00.000+01:00

<I>"surely can't be coincidence that they keep trying to shaft us left right and centre?"</I><BR/><BR/>I'm not sure either. I agree, it does look suspicious, but I <I>think</I> I'm more inclined to the view that it's all part of the programme of exponentially increasing public spending (necessary to keep the treasury/general economy plates spinning) and a wholesale shift towards totalitarianism,

Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09707661738889563273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-62790914284962530192008-09-30T12:00:00.000+01:002008-09-30T12:00:00.000+01:00

Now that's interesting. It certainly ties in well with what *our woman in scotland* says.

cosmic seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05168914848999240658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-45351882019120430502008-09-30T11:57:00.000+01:002008-09-30T11:57:00.000+01:00

I don't know, maybe I'm just too old, cynical and paranoid... but it surely can't be coincidence that they keep trying to shaft us left right and centre?<BR/><BR/>As for why Edinburgh isn't going the same way; I don't know, but the Scots do generally seem to be far more sensible and level headed on many issues (NOTB at least, the ones we've got running the country are obviously genetic blips ;-)

cosmic seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05168914848999240658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-63316654857562451672008-09-30T11:50:00.000+01:002008-09-30T11:50:00.000+01:00

<A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7643870.stm" REL="nofollow">Seen this</A>? More food for thought.

Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09707661738889563273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-28244862629085822762008-09-30T11:48:00.000+01:002008-09-30T11:48:00.000+01:00

Hmm. So you think this guidance is deliberately worded to have that effect? In that case, the only hope of changing it is to respond and ask for it to be changed - but fundamentally, the guidance itself will still presumably be in place. <BR/><BR/>If it's good for governments to get bums back on school seats though, why isn't Edinburgh following suit?

Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09707661738889563273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-18563748989187640022008-09-30T11:39:00.000+01:002008-09-30T11:39:00.000+01:00

I think it would only serve to *prove them right* - ie if people would rather do that, then they must have *something to hide* so the agenda is proved successful. After all we know *they* don't really want us to have the option of HE, but *they* can't be heard to be saying that in so many words. IMO anything that prevents a rise in numbers (because of course that will be the other effect - people

cosmic seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05168914848999240658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-1752344255703351192008-09-30T11:15:00.000+01:002008-09-30T11:15:00.000+01:00

It should go into the responses then, that people would rather put their children in schools or leave the country, than be forced to try to prove this crazy negative to officials who can't ever understand that home education is - and should be - different from school. <BR/><BR/>Question is: would it make a difference? Answer probably is: no.

Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09707661738889563273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-18465292916922252542008-09-30T10:58:00.000+01:002008-09-30T10:58:00.000+01:00

We certainly are.

cosmic seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05168914848999240658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-46688174402781144442008-09-30T10:10:00.000+01:002008-09-30T10:10:00.000+01:00

I bet people are seriously considering that, for precisely these sorts of reasons, aren't they?

Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09707661738889563273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37623200.post-90289931562379681622008-09-30T09:41:00.000+01:002008-09-30T09:41:00.000+01:00

"This can't be right. But what can we do?"<BR/><BR/>Move to Scotland and keep our fingers crossed??

cosmic seedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05168914848999240658noreply@blogger.com