Banned from the party.
Banned from the party.
Little feet
He’s got it wrong.
I think they’ve misunderstood how far relatively moderate home-educators would be prepared to go. Registration. I could live with that. Providing some sort of educational philosophy of what we do and why we do it. Yeah, at a push, that’s o.k. An annual tweak to that, a natter with an LEA official, fine. They’d have been happy and I’d have gone along with it.
Annual educational plans with outcomes, that are measured. Er….what? Sounds a bit like us becoming mini schools. Isn’t that what we are trying to avoid? A review of what ‘suitable’ and ‘efficient’ means? Won’t this result in a curriculum for Home Education that our plans and outcomes will have to align with. Isn’t this the National Curriculum which is so pointless and restrictive? Compulsory home visits - what’s that go to do with my educational proivision? One-to-one chats with a six-year without my consent. That’s more power than the police have.
I’ve gone from being happy to register to it being over my dead body. They’ve gone too far. Surely this will unite Home Educators in a way that will create strong and collective resistance. There was low-lying fruit for the ‘state’ to have but they just got too bloody greedy. Again.
Amateur Transplants - London Underground Song (via rafizztube)
My sort of innovation.
07/06/2009
Curry!!!
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