French Anti-Islamism Proposals Include Banning Home Education
Macron’s speech sounds a wake-up call for UK home educators to value the freedom they have, and do all they can to protect it! What’s been said? On 2 October home schooling …
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Children’s Commissioner Continues her One Woman Campaign against Home Education
Sally Holland questions Welsh Government’s decision to put HE guidance and database proposals on hold What’s been said? The official website of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales (Sally Holland) reports on her …
Is Education a “Public Good”?
Second Reading debate on Isle of Man Education Bill highlights why elective home education is under attack everywhere. What’s been said? Many readers will know that a new Education Bill has been …
Home Educated Candidates Ignored but Not Quite Forgotten
In the uproar over national exam results, there is a little encouragement for excluded HE candidates What’s been said? In recent weeks attention has been focussed on examination results, as governments across …
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 …
Some Positives and Negatives of Pandemic Schooling
Will home education now be viewed through the filter of negative ‘home-schooling’ experiences during lockdown? What’s been said? On 30 June 2020, shortly after the government abandoned plans to fully reopen primary …