tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post7229926702070998897..comments2024-03-20T00:30:11.702-07:00Comments on Home Education Heretic: Maintaining the illusion of widespread opposition to the registration of home educated childrenSimon Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10865289865412656573noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post-72355250421290115232016-07-24T07:06:22.630-07:002016-07-24T07:06:22.630-07:00Hmm, no one else seems to want to join in this so ...Hmm, no one else seems to want to join in this so here I am again. First of all, certainly down here increasing numbers are already known to the LA. This is partly because families gain something from coming forward (ie exam funding) but mostly as an increasing % have come out of schools and so the LA was notified when they left. The Bradford article is I think linked to the same "campaign" ( if there is one) as this in Portsmouth. <br />http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/education/home-school-register-is-welcomed-by-portsmouth-education-boss-1-7433446<br /><br />to which I replied (as myself you will be pleased to note). Registration is not what the LAs want - they want monitoring ( except here is Hants where we seem to have reached a happy and workable compromise.<br /><br />Most of the parents I meet on a daily basis are already fairly unhappy with how their children's education has turned out - some have been attending schools where they have been taught by a variety of supply teachers, some are at schools in special measures,., some are from schools where there have been teacher "sex scandals". Some (primary children) are home educated as there are no schools with places that are commutable on public transport. In some cases it is easy to blame the schools, in other cases it is the complexities of modern life (especially low level bullying on social media) that is to blame. Whatever the back ground home education offers a safe and effective alternative to main stream school - why did you home educate your daughter unless you felt you could do better? Most of the home educators I meet feel the same.<br />Yes there are a few "not very educated" young people out there - mostly I suspect off rolled by schools or pressurised because of truancy fines, but even when they were in school they were still the "not very educated" - is this really so bad it is worth putting the thousands of hardworking home educating families through a load of tedious hoops.<br />Finally the awful tragedies- and yes there are some; but in every case ( even the laest one) there seems t have been opportunities to have saved them which social services somehow missed. Has there ever been a case of an HE child where there was no referral to ss? I am not anti schools or social services (I have worked for both) but I do know that in the most local HE SCR to me (not in HCC and no one died)... the social workers didn't see the children as they were too scared of the dogs.....Julienoreply@blogger.com