Tuesday 22 February 2011

Another school for home educated children

http://www.witneygazette.co.uk/news/wgheadlines/8864814.First_bid_goes_in_for__free_school_/
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 February 2011 at 12:17

    No Simon - it's not a school for home educated children. That would be an oxymoron. It's a free school. For families that want to send their children to a school.

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  2. Simon Webb22 February 2011 at 13:32

    'No Simon - it's not a school for home educated children. That would be an oxymoron. It's a free school. For families that want to send their children to a school.'

    I rather assumed that readers would be able to read the article and work out what I meant by the heading. I am sure that those whose literacy skills were too poor to manage this are grateful to you, Anonymous.

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  3. Anonymous24 February 2011 at 11:17

    In many ways, this school already is a 'school of home educated children'. About half its pupils are HE'd kids who opt in for one a single subject (a couple of hours a week) or more. It's very popular among the HE community locally. Even more would use it in that way if it was free.

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  4. Anonymous25 February 2011 at 05:13

    And that would be a form of flexischooling......

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  5. Anonymous25 February 2011 at 23:20

    Not really.

    Two hours a week doing Drama at a Montessori school is more or less the same as two hours a week spent in a piano teacher's house learning the piano, or 2 hours a week in sports classes at the Leisure centre. Lots of HE kids do that sort of thing and no one calls it 'flexi-schooling'.

    When those 2 hours are spent in the company of other HE'd kids, being tutored in a specific subject at the HE'ing parent's request, it's simply part of HE, no matter whether it occurs in a village hall, someone's home, a sports centre, a school or a farm (in this case both school and farm).

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