Tuesday 7 June 2011

Unreasonable behaviour by local authorities

One of the difficulties we face when trying to get some idea of a local authority's behaviour towards home educating families is that we often only hear second hand about the situation. The case may indeed be exactly as presented by the irate parent to a local group or on an Internet list, or there may be a good deal more to it than meets the eye. So I want to try an experiment.


Quite a few home educating parents come on this Blog each day and so I am hoping that we can hear some first hand examples of unreasonable behaviour by local authorities. In other words, cases where the person commenting feels that she has been badly treated by the LA and is prepared to answer intrusive questions about the circumstances in order that we might build up a rounded picture of what has happened. It would help if we could be given the name of the local authority as well. This will enable us all to get some idea of how things are working in a local authority which has supposedly behaved badly towards a home educator.


I want to try this, because in many of the cases which I see on Internet lists, I have an idea that things might not be precisely as advertised. So here is the opportunity for everybody to talk about the worst local authorities and what they have done which is unacceptable. No holds barred, guys; you can name names and give dates and see if others on here can shed any light on these LAs.

7 comments:

  1. Erm, what difference would it make if intrusive questions were answered and LAs were named? You would still have to take the person's word for it and I doubt if the LA in question would be prepared to verify the account to a third party.

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  2. Arrogant webb again.

    What makes you think that people would trust you as a fair individual to judge situations. You have perpetually demonstrated a naive bias towards your leftist state authoritarian Badmanesque and Ballsian friends.

    No one should rise to such a stupid invitation from this narrow minded egocentric fool.

    The Government have a dossier of examples of L.A. conduct. Read Hansard Webb

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  3. Where might I find this dossier. Could you please send a link?

    Thanks
    Ubuntu

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  4. 'Where might I find this dossier. Could you please send a link?

    Thanks

    Ubuntu"

    M.P. Graham Stuart has it and discussed it openly in the lower house - read Hansard

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  5. 'You have perpetually demonstrated a naive bias towards your leftist state authoritarian Badmanesque and Ballsian friends.

    No one should rise to such a stupid invitation from this narrow minded egocentric fool.'

    More news from the secretary of the Scottish branch of my fan club! The stilted delivery and use of expressions such as 'the lower house' rather than 'the Commons' leads one to suppose that this man is either German or Scandinavian. My money is on Alison Sauer's husband Ralph, who is currently working for Johnsson-Matthey in Edinburgh.

    Simon.

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  6. 'M.P. Graham Stuart has it and discussed it openly in the lower house - read Hansard'

    Yes I read Hansard. Whilst reading, I got the impression that this dossier is now widely available. My mistake.

    'My money is on Alison Sauer's husband Ralph, who is currently working for Johnsson-Matthey in Edinburgh.'

    This is pure speculation. I thought you were above these things Simon. Thought you were a man of hard facts?

    Where ever there are two houses of parliament in any political system they are also referred to as lower and upper houses. People heavily involved in politics sometimes use this expression to vary their vocabulary. My own MP uses that expression. The last time I looked he was neither, Scottish, Scandinavian or German. He comes from Dudley.....

    Ubuntu

    Ubuntu

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  7. I for one would like to know if the LAs are really out on a witch hunt to bring all home educators down. I read other HE lists and they would have you believe that if you decide to home ed you will live the life of a fugitive from the law. So, yes. I want to hear from families and their real experiences with their LA.
    Eli

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