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Vegetarians just don’t get it!

By Alison [NOTE: This post should not be taken seriously and those who suffer from sense of humour deficit should look away now.] Bloody vegetarians! They have absolutely no idea what damage they might be causing their children by refusing to allow them to eat meat. As for vegans, well they are completely irresponsible and . . .

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Date of Post  1 September 2010 |

Post Category  Category: Civil Liberties, Health |

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Jimmy Reid: when will we see your like again?

By Alison Much has been written and spoken in the past wee while about Jimmy Reid, whose funeral took place yesterday and whose life was celebrated by the great, the good and the ordinary. Reading the many eloquent tributes, and in particular Joan McAlpine’s  Go Lassie Go this morning, prompted me to set down some . . .

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Date of Post  20 August 2010 |

Post Category  Category: Education, General |

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Beware of the flowers

By Alison In the wake of some seriously misguided media coverage, and following on from yesterday’s post, let me ask once more how, exactly, ‘tightening the rules on home education’ might have saved the Riggi children. It is a serious question aimed at those who have jumped on the blame bandwagon over the past few . . .

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Date of Post  7 August 2010 |

Post Category  Category: Civil Liberties, Education |

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Speculation before the facts

By Alison As news broke of a ‘gas explosion’ in Edinburgh on Wednesday afternoon, no one could have anticipated the truly tragic story which was about to unfold. All of us in Scotland have been deeply shocked by subsequent revelations that three young children were stabbed to death in their own home, reportedly by their . . .

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Date of Post  6 August 2010 |

Post Category  Category: General |

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Class Barriers

By Veteran Home Educator As a relatively new home educator back in the 1990s, I recall an education officer’s astonishment that a nice middle class parent like me should be perturbed by her department’s particularly shoddy treatment of a family living on a local council estate. “People like that can’t be allowed to home educate”, she . . .

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Date of Post  23 May 2010 |

Post Category  Category: Education |

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Open letter to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Home Education

By Neil T I am responding to a report, from memory, by a home educator of a recent meeting with the APPG for elective home education, so if I have misrepresented the gist of what was conveyed I apologise in advance and would be happy to be corrected. This is a message from an angry . . .

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Date of Post  5 March 2010 |

Post Category  Category: Civil Liberties, Education |

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