Diverting the State Steamroller
History of Scottish home educators’ defence of their parental freedoms recounted on a global stage What’s been said? The Global Home Education Exchange Virtual Summit 2020 took place in the week 9-13 …
Category: Scotland
Scottish Home Education Forum keeps up the good work
Calling out intrusive data sharing, challenging human rights impact of GIRFEC, and demanding equal exams access for independent candidates What’s been said? Whilst English elective home educators have been fully occupied with …
More Scottish Parents Choose to Home Educate as Schools Reopen
One parent comments, “It’s been the one positive thing to come from the pandemic (which is weird but true).” What’s been said? Lockdown and attendant school closures have made life even busier …
Vigilance still Needed
With the spotlight on pandemic schooling at home and the problems of reopening schools, it is helpful to be reminded that state distrust of home education has not evaporated. What’s been said? …
Home Truths on Home Education in Scotland and Elsewhere
The Scottish Home Education Forum’s investigation of local authorities’ relationships with home educating families provides vital insights for other parts of the UK What’s been said? On Monday 10 March, the Scottish …
Scottish “State Snoopers” Reappear in Different Guise
Astounding workaround of the Named Person scheme reported in Scottish press What’s been said? The title of our October 2019 Byte, Named Person Scheme pronounced dead, but its Spectre lives on, has …