You can't hear the jackboots, but this is still oppression

Ali Admin · #1 14-06-09, 17:05

Peter Hitchens' article in the Mail sums up the prevailing HE sentiment.

You can't hear the jackboots, but this is still oppression

Quote:

This is our all-powerful State's angry response to a growing rebellion, by mothers and fathers who are sick of seeing their children bullied, neglected and miseducated in the state education system, and rightly think they can do a better job. How can the commissars in charge of the Western world's worst schools be fit to judge how well a parent is teaching her own child?

The pretext for this invasion of privacy is a baseless suggestion that home education could be used as a cover for child abuse. Well, so it could, and so could piano lessons, dentistry or newspaper delivery rounds. But these are not subject to Comrade Balls's new inquisition. Why not? Because they don't challenge his desire to march all children into egalitarian comprehensive sausage machines, notorious as they are for violence, ignorance and drugs.

OrganisedPauper · #2 14-06-09, 17:46

If you go here comments are enabled.

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co....ppression.html

smaller url

http://tinyurl.com/nhmdof

BWs Elaine

Diane · #3 14-06-09, 23:07

I've commented. There are some awful, prejudiced people around.

Diane

Renegade Parent · #4 14-06-09, 23:30

OP - thank you for being so busy and efficient. Diane, thank you for being you.

I think I am going to have to psyche myself up before reading some of the comments on there- although I bet I could take a good guess at what they will say already!

raq23 · #5 15-06-09, 00:18

I commented on that hours ago. I'm getting fed up with going to these sites and waiting hours for some moderator to put my comment through. The Times is the worst but The Mail aren't far behind..oh no..also the BBC..oh bugger they all are just censoring me! ...no..no..The Telegraph are good..it posted straight away.