Tag: political stuff
Politicising the offspring.
This afternoon Big and I have wrapped IT and civics together by sitting down to talk through and complete her response to the current review on home education. Her identifier was 1103, so the numbers are climbing steadily this week, good. Tim and I have had several conversations about it all, and it’s pretty much…
Answer from the department.
My MP has forwarded a letter from Sarah McCarthy-Fry that I’ve seen dotted about the internet. It’s a standard letter and doesn’t address any of our individual concerns. My MP says “if there are any points you would like me to pursue further, please let me know”. Oh, where to start. How about the first…
Disappointed by the select committee
Dear Jax The Chairman has asked me to thank you for your e-mail of 26 January, about the consultation on home education. There are no plans by the Committee to hold an inquiry but I shall ensure that the points which you make are borne in mind in relevant work by the Committee. Yours sincerely…
Disappointed by the LibDems.
I wrote to David Laws, the education spokesperson, as follows, a week ago. Dear Mr Laws I am writing to you in your capacity as Lib Dem spokesperson for education and children’s matters, to inquire as to whether you have come across the Government’s latest consultation on home education. This is the third consultation in…
Just in case
Can’t think that anyone who reads here will have missed hearing about the petition against the consultation, but just in case some of you haven’t, it’s here. And have you all responded to the consultation? Or written to your MP? We’ve also got good responses from the Conservatives who’ve been mailed so far, and Michael…
My letter to my MP
Found it! Dear Chris McCafferty, I wish to complain about the government’s current consultation on home education which can be found here http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/consultations/index.cfm?action=consultationDetails&consultationId=1605&external=no&menu=1 This consultation does not appear to follow the code of practice for consultations, as it is only running for 4 weeks, not 12, and can only be responded to online, thus excluding…
That home ed review.
Have you written to your mp yet? If not, you can use this site, Write to them, it will tell you who your MP is and give you a nice little form to do it. There are template letters on the facebook group, though I would always suggest, as write to them do, that you…
Just shoot me now
Spurred by Helen’s complaint to her MP and anyone else she could fire it at, I thought I’d tootle along to my friendly Lib Deb website, look up the education spokesperson and see if I could get their opinion on it all. I came across this gem: School is one of the most important parts…
If you want to be scared
it would probably be wise to know what to be scared of. I first started writing this back in November and never finished it. I thought that it may be time to publish it though, given that I spent a while the other evening going through this for a friend. There may be other ppl…
This is a good one.
Garden Organic outraged at plans to charge schools and community groups for composting I am frequently very annoyed that homes are practically blackmailed into recycling, sorting out waste, composting and all the rest, and you go to work or school, and there’s just bin loads of stuff being tipped into biffa skips. According to the…