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Jimmy Reid: when will we see your like again?

Friday, 20th August 2010 | Education, General

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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, . . .

Beware of the flowers

Saturday, 7th August 2010 | Civil Liberties, Education

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 . . .

Class Barriers

Sunday, 23rd May 2010 | Education

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 . . .

Open letter to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Home Education

Friday, 5th March 2010 | Civil Liberties, Education

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 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 . . .

Why I will ‘Just Say No’ to a forward plan

Monday, 30th November 2009 | Education

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: By Barbara When it comes to the practice of elective home education, many people have had the wool pulled over their eyes by so called independent expert Graham Badman, whose task earlier this year was to produce policy based evidence so that his paymaster Ed Balls could continue his . . .

The Badman effect on Scotland: a résumé

Friday, 6th November 2009 | Education

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: By Schoolhouse As Scotland’s national home education support organisation, Schoolhouse continues to be deluged with enquiries from home educators throughout the UK who are concerned about the implications of the Badman review for home education north of the border. While some Engish families are thinking of relocating to Scotland . . .