A bit previous?

Given we’ve been told that the review is due out today, wonder why the BBC has just published this :Register call for home educators

A review of home education in England is expected to recommend a national registration scheme for home educators.

It is also expected to say local authorities should have the right to visit any child taught at home.

Have they had privileged access? Why does everyone except the ppl most effected by this, the home educators, seem to know what is going on? Was it really a foregone conclusion all the way?

I think fighting against the idea of a register would be very difficult, can’t see many of the non HE population seeing any problem with it, and there are various HE families who may well welcome it too.

Now I’ve said elsewhere that I wasn’t going to worry about this tonight, so I’d better make good on my word and go to bed.


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4 responses to “A bit previous?”

  1. Michelle avatar
    Michelle

    grump about the whole thing

  2. It’s what my LEA man was coming on Tuesday, but i don’t know if he knew anything.
    I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that if it turns out to be, for example, a compulsory register balanced with a right to free GCSE’s, we’ll probably have got away lightly. I don’t have much inclination to GCSEs but i know lots of people would find that helpful – and i’m known to the LEA so i don’t have a lot to lose, though i know plenty of people won’t see it that way. I’m finally coming to the conclusion the person who reported me all that time ago actually did me a favour!
    If it’s anything else, i think we are in the poop.

  3. Sadly this whole thing is one of the many many things that has affected our decision for my two to be attending school in the near future and I know of a few others who feel the same way.

  4. i am so annoyed about this,too. just found you searching for more info.

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