Kelly's blog, in case you haven't discovered it before, is here:
http://kellygreenandgold.wordpress.com/
She is talking about notification which is a scary concept for me, and I wondered why. Then I thought if I am a sovereign being why do I have to notify anyone when I make a move?
It's simple. If I and I alone am in control of my child's education, why do I have to allow a school to let the local authority know that I am removing my child from their register?
Doesn't letting the LA know imply that the LA is in charge of my child's education?
Yet the law makes clear that it is me who will be sued if my child believes she has not been offered an adequate education for her needs. So what has the LA to do with my child's education?
If we visit a doctor, that doctor may prescribe and advise, but that doctor is not in charge of my child's health. I am. I can choose to procure the prescription for my child and listen to his advice, then again I could leave that doctor's list to find someone else. Or I can opt to employ a homeopath to help with a health problem. I could do many different things to ensure that my child becomes and stays healthy.
That an LA can look into the provision of education, and has the power to deny me the right to home educate seems, to me, to make a mockery of the fact that I am controller of my child's education.
Completely contradictory, isn't it?
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It is contradictory. Just say NO!
ReplyDeleteHiya D ,
ReplyDeleteyes it is wrong isn't it , i do find that mr normal public doesn't even realise that we ARE in charge though .>>.. i've had people say things to me like "well you've had a good run haven't you? isn't it time they went back to school?" and another "How do the home education people check up on you?" and I've even had a pediatrician say "The home education support team will work with you " !!! well who are they then? I had to explain the law to her and she still doubted me and told me we must have had to be 'okayed' before we started to home ed !!
People don't seem to expect us to have freedom of choice at all levels.
*rolls eyes
Unbelievable, isn't it? The law's been in place all this time and yet so few people even in the educational sector have a grasp of it.
ReplyDeleteshepherdlass says-Unbelievable, isn't it? The law's been in place all this time and yet so few people even in the educational sector have a grasp of it.
ReplyDeletewhy would there have a good grasp of it.This law was not meant for Joe public it was for the rich to be able to home educate! What has happened is that working class people are taking this up and it scares them you can have home education so long as not to many people do and the right type!
dawny say-How do the home education people check up on you?"
ReplyDeleteyes we had this said to us to! people think because there school is checked up on you should as well! in fact most people do what you should say to them is but this will cost tax payer money that could be spent on your children school! i find this works!