Recognising Media Rhetoric – a Must Read
What’s been said? Personalised Education Now published a new piece of research by Wendy Charles-Warner on 1 April, Home Education and Child Abuse: How Media Rhetoric Drives the Myth. The full document …
Avoiding Scrutiny?
What’s been said? On 6 April 2019 A Baker submitted a Freedom of Information Request [FoIR] to the Department for Education [DfE] asking for “copies of the draft versions of (Guidance to …
Children Responding to the Current Consultation
What’s been said? Who reads the small print? Who reads the T&Cs when buying on-line? Very few of us can be bothered, but there are times when it is wise to do …
Once Bullied, now a Champion of Personalised Education
What’s been said? On 25 April the Star (Sheffield) carried a report where home education in the form of private tuition became the solution to repeated bullying of a year 9 pupil: …
Evidence or Hearsay
What’s been said? On 13 April, V Colvin submitted a Freedom of Information Request [FoIR] to the Department for Education. In it Colvin quoted two statements from the third paragraph of the …
Two Sides of the ‘Registration’ Argument
What’s been said “Home-schooling is just another way for controlling parents to dominate and diminish their children’s lives” cries the headline in the Independent on 5 April 2019. The article, written by …