Tag: political stuff
Swimming and MMORPG
Small spent most of Tuesday expanding his understanding of RPGs. Every now and then he needed to regroup and spent some time back with CBeebies, mainly on tikkabilla 🙂 He got lots out of fusion fall, and then eventually, I dragged him out of the house for his swimming lesson. That meant that we walked…
Next, the under fives.
The introduction of a compulsory annual visit by a health visitor or trained advocate is suggested to ensure that the most at-risk children (about 68 per cent of cases involved children from birth to four) can express concerns to a professional. No, it’s not scaremongering or thought provoking posting from a home ed related blog…
Wondering how Ed Balls thinks the rest of us cope
his twitter post this morning: on the way to Cabinet… 9am start not v family-friendly… Thank good ness for grandparents… So school isn’t family friendly, business isn’t family friendly, working in a shop isn’t family friendly, in fact, pretty much the whole working world isn’t family friendly. Well, glad we’ve got that sorted then. Looking…
Democracy in action?
Tonight I am feeling betrayed and let down by a man who in all reality has no responsibility to me at all. Lord Lucas has placed an amendment against the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill as follows: 311 Insert the following new Clause— “Support for home education Support for home education (1) The Secretary…
Home education review, what can we do now?
Lord Lucas asks To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, as required by the Code of Practice on Consultation, they have published an impact assessment to accompany the “Registration and Monitoring Proposals” consultation following Mr Badman’s report on Elective Home Education; and, if so, whether they will place a copy in the Library of the House.…
Broad and balanced v intrinsic motivation.
This review does not argue against the rights of parents as set out in Section 7 of the Education Act 1996 outlined above, nor their deeply held convictions about education. I believe it would be wrong to seek to legislate in pursuit of an all embracing definition of “suitableâ€. However, such is the demand and…
Aged five and on flexi-time
Well, the publicity is continuing post Badman review, with an article in the Guardian today about flexi-schooling with the tagline “New regulation for home educators could mean a rush to take up part-time schooling, a parent writes”. I have commented as follows: Just because the review was accepted in full by ministers does not mean…
Excluding four year olds
Schools need not expel under 7s In the report, The Exclusion From School of Children Aged Four To Seven, Ofsted said most children “responded well to the school’s expectations”, but a few found this difficult. In the BBC report on tv about this, the reporter said something about looking into why these situations occur. I’ve…
Irony
From Every Parent Matters Letter from then Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, March 2007 Parents and the home environment they create are the single most important factor in shaping their children’s well-being, achievements and prospects. We know that the overwhelming majority of parents want to do the very best for their children. We know that the…
My letter to my MP, John Gummer about the home education review.
Dear John Gummer, I am writing to draw your attention to the review of home education carried out by Graham Badman and presented to the government on 11 June, last week. Ed Balls stated that he accepted all recommendations from the review, and immediately launched a consultation into changes in how home education will be…