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 …
Tag: Alison Preuss
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 …
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 …
Obfuscating Officialdom called out by Scottish Petitioners
Public inquiry into GIRFEC human rights impact: parliamentary petition update What’s been said? The problem of non-consensual inter-agency information sharing being faced by Scottish home educators and the objections raised by Alison …
When Good Parents Do Nothing
What’s been said? In the early 1950s one parent, Joy Baker, stood up to officialdom in order to exercise her right to educate her own children rather than let the state decide …