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Heavy week

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Jax Blunt
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Is it really only Wednesday? It feels like it should be Thursday, although I know it can’t be, as if it was, I’d be on a first aid course. Well, halfway through a first aid course, I’ve got to do two evening sessions to make up for the Saturday I missed as it was the Saturday after Katrin died. Weird how that is still causing such very direct ripples through my life.

Anyway, so far this week, there was a Monday, which I think was fairly standard, but tbh I can’t remember much of, then yesterday I spent the day on a Contactpoint training course, which was a farce, as there is no system yet, so it wasn’t really training, it was kind of advertising. I nearly fell off my chair when they said parents had been widely consulted with – my straw poll of parents since then says that I’m the only one who has ever heard of it. Oh, and while I was there, a guy asked an awkward question about home educators, and I leapt in and pounded the guy who answered, so even if it looks like I’ve gone over to the darkside, I’m still out there fighting for all our rights 😉

Then after that I came home and ate, then went to school to do the parents workshop part 3. Only one more to go. Got to do more and more presentations, and then was a bit floored to discover that I’m probably getting a new pupil on Monday. Jolly dee. Home about 10.30, so slumped around for a bit, then went to bed far too late.

Today was a Wednesday, for some reason it’s one of our heaviest evenings in terms of children not going home. Just as well that Tim can pick up the kids for Brownies as there’s no way I could get away to do it. So home by about 18.30, Tim fed me a healthy snack, and now I’m about to go tell the children to go to sleep and get a curry.

I’m so tired!

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6 responses to “Heavy week”

  1. tbird avatar
    tbird

    You’re still a home educator….. you still educate your own children, you just do it in a room supplied by someone else and get paid for the privilege!

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  2. Sarah avatar
    Sarah

    so know the feeling, I have wanted it to be Friday since about Monday.

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  3. Gill avatar
    Gill

    “You’re still a home educator….. you still educate your own children, you just do it in a room supplied by someone else and get paid for the privilege!”
    I like that – it’s true! And very clever of you, Jax 😀

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  4. Gill avatar
    Gill

    PS what was the question about home ed?

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  5. Jax avatar
    Jax

    The question about home ed was related to the de facto registration of all home educators – given that this is a national database, if you don’t have a place of education against your child as their data is uploaded, then you are immediately going to be outed. At this point, apparently if you’ve been vetted by EWS (educational welfare services) you’ll be alright, but other parents will be “investigated” which was the word I leapt on and punished.
    I think though, that the numbers are going to swamp them, at least to begin with, but there will be no more home educating under the radar, and data is being uploaded already in the Early Adopter authorities, which will have overspill to surrounding authorities, including those in West Yorkshire. That’s if they ever work out how it’s really going to work, it’s roll out has rolled back so many times now it’s quite dizzying.

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  6. Gill avatar
    Gill

    Oh I see, thought it must have been along those lines. Oh well, all that rolling (backwards) is good news for us, isn’t it? Long may it last! Every day’s delay is another day’s freedom for some of us here.
    I’m just starting to learn the difference between monitored HE and the unmonitored variety. Unmonitored allows better education provision by far.

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