tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post537756812154445138..comments2024-03-20T00:30:11.702-07:00Comments on Home Education Heretic: Maire Stafford still getting all her information on home education from me!Simon Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10865289865412656573noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post-77673866730813535232013-11-14T14:59:34.336-08:002013-11-14T14:59:34.336-08:00Well, if the last APPG was invitation only, I fai...Well, if the last APPG was invitation only, I failed to notice that - and in fact took my husband with me 'cos I thought he might find it interesting ( he was in fact somewhat puzzled by the whole thing and found the windowsill he sat on somewhat painful to his (ancient) posterior).<br />I went because we were given the date at the one before - and the topic was ( again) exams; so my contribution was to moan about how the D of Ed exam checking exercise ended up with the school we currently use being saddled with the HEers GCSE results in their league table - with disastrous result for the school. I went to get that point across for the school -and GS did delegate somebody from a Govt body to look into the issue. I also waffled on about our attempts to set up an exam centre as a home ed group.<br /><br />The trouble is that there are some home educators out there who only value LA bashing as worthy of merit. I spend my week in real time- rather than internet -contact with literally hundreds of home educated children and parents. The issues that concern them are often far from the big issues that others are fighting about, but that doesn't make their issues less important. I have repeatedly said that I am not in favour of more<br />legislation, - and I don't think this latest idea of GS is a particularly good idea, but I will continue to fight over the things<br />which concern the people I know - exams is one of those, but it isn't the only issue.Julienoreply@blogger.com