Home Education Forums

Serious concerns have recently been raised on both our public and family forums about the bullying tactics employed by some local authorities, whose officers have taken it upon themselves to pass judgement on what is best for 'our children' on the basis that their own parenting choices (e.g. dump kids in day care and nursery ‘education’ at the earliest possible opportunity and rentseek at the taxpayers’ expense) are not only beyond reproach but should ideally be embraced by all. There is a word for that beginning with F.

It has been reported that Jonas Himmelstrand, president of Sweden's Home Education Association ROHUS, has left the country with his family in the wake of continuing persecution from the Swedish authorities. The Himmelstrands have taken refuge on the Finnish Aland Islands along with other exiled Swedish home educating parents for whom life had become intolerable under the totalitarian state regime.

Home educators are reporting an increase in ultra vires activity among English local authorities whose elective home education guidelines have been exposed as inaccurate and misleading. Councils recently outed on our community forums include Barnsley, East Sussex and a Wirral, Knowlsey and Warrington combo calling itself the Elective Home Education Service. Other offenders have been flagged up on our private forums, on Facebook and other social media.