Home Educators Equated with the American Gun Lobby
What’s been said? When Martin George wrote a report for the Tes (31 October) on Amanda Spielman’s letter to the Public Accounts Committee, he chose the type of sensational headline with which …
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Baby P, David Cameron and Home Education
What’s been said? A week after the English EHE Call for Evidence was published, blogger Sue Gerrard published an article rather unimaginatively entitled Home education: politics. However, it’s an important article which …
Police track hundreds of ‘invisible’ home-schoolers
What’s been said? On Saturday 28 April, The Times published a report with the above headline. It states that “For the first time officers have begun conducting welfare checks on homeschooled children …
Could Mediation Help?
What’s been said? Recently we considered one aspect of the Isle of Man’s Department for Education, Sport and Culture’s [DESC] draft of new EHE Procedures. Here we reflect on the matter of …
Asking Poor Questions Receives Poor Answers
What’s been said? Learning to ask the right questions is an important skill. Ask a poor question and one will receive a poor answer. Similarly asking an uniformed person will result in …
Mission Creep in the Politics of Education
What’s been said? Following her open letter to Lord Soley, Martine Cotter has started her own blog where she published a second post on 11 March, Home Education – The Last Stop? …