Home Ed under attack
With the start of the new “school term” there has been several articles in the Media this week attacking home education.
These all seem to be written by people who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about and have never properly researched home education.
The worst of the lot was Johann Hari in “The Independent” (LOL! LOL! LOL! What a name for a paper!) on Thursday 11th September 2008.
His article entitled
“Children we abandon at our peril”
with the subheading of
“As the new school year begins, there are totally unwatched kids heading towards criminality”
provoked a storm of protest. There were over 200 comments on the first day and there are now over 30 pages of comments.
Most of these comments were written by articulate home-educating parents and supporters.
Please go the article and add your comments.
I had to laugh at my 14 year old when she read the article. She said “Well, as least we (home schoolers) are at the top of the list of the UNEDUCATED! Does that make us the most important?”
Certainly the most vocal!
As home educating parents, all that most of us really want to do is to educate our children. We don’t really want to waste valuable time defending home education in the face of attack such as in this article by Johann Hari.
Nor do we really want to spend hours working out how to protect our rights to home -educate our children, against an onslaught of ill-thought out legislation such as this Statutory Guidance on Children Not receiving a suitable Education.
I suppose it is all part of the grand plan to dis-credit home-education, so it can be made illegal. This would then fit in with the plans of the puppet-masters in the EU that loathe home education!
Or part of the “Common Purpose” to turn us all into non-thinking, conforming, pro-European Sheeple! (sheep + people)
I urge you to make your voice heard.
Please don’t just assume that the rights we currently have to home-educate our children will automatically be there in the future.
From my personal research on the EU and the Lisbon Treaty, I have come to the conclusion that we have to stand up for ourselves and make our support for home education known.
Doing nothing = consent to anything that is thrown at us.
Please fill out the form on the above guidance and state children should not be classed as vulnerable or missing education or at risk of an arranged marriage just because they are educated at home.
Please add your comments and protests to Johann Hari’s article and any other anti home-ed articles you come across.
With abundant blessings.
Amanda Goldston
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Sadly, I agree that we are heading towards a situation where it could be made illegal.
Well said, yet again. Still haven’t sent my response to this consult as I keep thinking of yet more powerful arguments about the damage that state oversight and intrusion will do. The more I think about it, the angrier I get…and this as a parent who has only had very tenuous experience of exposing my children to school.
School was SO MUCH LESS effecient than home education that I cannot believe I am being asked to repeatedly put our case. BUT ANYHOW, I SHALL and I will go after them if they DARE to act in ultra vires fashion.
SORRY CANT STOP SHOUTING just at the mo.