Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: A response to the DCSF CON-sultation on proposals for the registration and monitoring of law abiding home educating families. 1. Do you agree that these proposals strike the right balance between the rights of parents to home educate and the rights of children to receive a suitable education? Disagree . . .

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The Learning Freely Network (LFN) is a website designed as a worldwide collective of people, groups and organizations from locations throughout the world supportive of “learning freely” environments, which include ideologies known as “Natural Learning”, Un-schooling”, as well as other home based education environments, which incorporate autonomous learning, sometimes . . .

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: By Ali P Interviewing a school refusing child and her mother on GMTV this morning, Lorraine Kelly told a blatant lie several times over: “It’s the law, you must go to school until you’re 16.” Emphasising the point to the child, she added: “Your mum could be in serious . . .

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: A review of Teach Yourself Home Education by David R Grant Deborah Durbin, Hodder Education, 2009 It is excellent to find that the topic of Home Education has now made it on to the list of the well-known ‘Teach Yourself’ series. The personal experiences of the author and those . . .

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard the Titanic, the world’s first unsinkable ship. Whether you are travelling as first class passengers or in steerage, we are all sailing together on this voyage of discovery to a new land of opportunity. The finest engineers in the world have built this vessel, . . .

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Robert Burns summed it up nicely in 1791 when he described as a “parcel o’ rogues” the Scots bourgeoisie, who, in ratifying the 1707 Treaty of Union contrary to the defining principles of the Declaration of Arbroath, sold the autonomy, independence and sovereignty of the people of Scotland in . . .