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, . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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