Nazi education law backed by Ofsted

[Ali Admin]

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Nazi education law backed by Ofsted

Ofsted has called for the introduction of a Nazi inspired law in England in a report on home education published today, apparently in defiance of a moratorium instituted by the new coalition government on the work of all government quangos in the children and young people's sector.

Commissioned by the now defunct DCSF to ‘complement’ the discredited Badman report, whose recommendations failed to make it into legislation (either by hook or by crook), the report calls for the forcible registration of all home educators and compulsory access to children by strangers without their parents present.

[Debs]

Very nicely said, Alison.

[Earthtracer]

Is there to be no end?
The DCSF has a 'tell us what you think' box on their web-page. I am sitting here gnashing my teeth and shouting expletives at my poor dog, just so that I don't write a tirade of abuse - which however satisfying to me, would not advance the downfall of these slithery creeps one iota.and
I have the fortune to have an SNP MP, so he will not intervene on a solely E&W matter (SNP party policy and mostly I agree with that aspect but it does make it difficult when one wants to help our friends sotb).
I wonder if I could borrow Martin McGuinness's Thompson....?

[Diane]

Well, no, there is to be no end UNTIL the state has complete control over every child.

Of course, they totally ignore the fact that the more you force someone to do something the more that person RESISTS.

The Tories are merely Labour in other suits. Not forgetting that the load of over-paid squidgy fat civil servant cats in their golden offices at the towers of Parliament hate our guts and want us castrated.

Diane

[Earthtracer]

Diane, to share your view would be to commit moral and mental suicide! The glass is always half-full! No matter how depressing it sometimes gets. However eternal vigilance will always be required...

[Elaine Kirk]

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What qualifies you as an Ofsted Inspector? well a record of child abuse seems to be a pre requisite.

[Diane]

Earthtracer, I think I'm justified in saying what I said. They ARE still trying even though the Coalition government has made it clear they are not funding rubbish like OFSTED's weird fantasies (like LAs being responsible for home educators).

People resist when they are pushed like home educators did when Balls tried to colonise our homes and children. People don't just lie down and stretch out to become doormats for the jackboot. They resist, and conquer.

There's nothing much negative in that.

Diane

[s836apg]

Hey Diane, are you going to post an official retraction after G Stuart's statement?
:-) R

"The Tories are merely Labour in other suits."

[Diane]

No, I think I'll stand by what I say. I've been reading John Pilger. I saw David Cameron welcoming Margaret Thatcher to Downing Street recently.

The Tories are quite keen for home edders to spend their own money educating their own children and be responsible for them. They know that most people will choose schooling for their kids, and that we are a small group at the moment so can be, more or less, ignored. The Tories, like all other rich people, are doing what they do to keep themselves and their kind rich. You can see the writing on the wall with Frank Field having been asked to conduct a review (sigh) on poverty. Frank Field went to Chile where employed Chileans pay into a welfare fund; the unemployed pay nothing and get nothing. Pilger posited that Field was trying to implement that system in Britain.

But, yes, I agree that Mr. Stuart is rather splendid.

Diane

[ouinon]

Hi!

Been away for a while, since last November when it looked as if the draconian new homeschooling laws proposed by Balls etc were definitely going to be implemented. I gave up on my plans to return to England with my son, and dropped out of the whole scene because it was simply so depressing.

My son, now 11 years old, actually went to school for the last five months of the last academic year, because we were getting worried about the approach of secondary school and increased Academic Inspection pressure, and we had found a tiny local private catholic primary school ( sub'd by the church so nominal fee only ), and my son actually enjoyed it, in a class of 19 of two years combined.

But he just tried two weeks at the local public college this new academic year and !!!!!!!!!! bored out of brain etc, ( no time to do anything else either ), so he's home-un-schooling again.

This time I am a lot less worried about the Academic Inspection "Controls", because my son did so phenomenally well at the little primary school, ( top of class in maths, near top in science, history and geo, and french etc, aswell as top in english obviously :lol etc ), despite his having done little or nothing in the way of regular school-work for the previous year and a half, and only about an hour a day for the previous three years on a corr course.

But home-un-schooling with less fear, ( as a result of the above ), with greater clarity about how little *use* school really seems to be, ( in educational terms anyway as opposed to producing compulsive consumers and classifying people for the great pecking-order/heirarchy which is work ), I can see why so many people react with so much hostility to homeschooling/ers, because if school is so useless for learning, school which is such a central part of our society, ... it's like the emperor's new clothes ... it's almost bizarre, disorientating.

Anyway, that was intro ... yesterday I was suddenly looking, out of curiosity, to see what the reactions to the new laws had been in the HEd communities, ... came on here, and found that they weren't passed after all!!! :lol ... so if the Inspection here in France do start getting heavy again we could still come to the UK ... but then I read the above ... :? :? :?

Is homeschooling/home-education in England likely to remain relatively unpoliced or isn't it?

What's the prognosis?
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