Tag: Stealing your freedom
lookee who I found
in the Telegraph, Revealed: new teaching methods that are producing dramatic results Innovative headteachers at schools around the country are abandoning traditional chalk and talk teaching methods in favour of widely differing visions of an educational future. Judith Woods enters a world of spaced learning, praise pods, flexible Fridays and sixth-formers in business suits. This…
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…
A voice of reason.
On the day that it became illegal to take pictures of the police an interesting report was released: Anti-terror measures worldwide have seriously undermined international human rights law, a report by legal experts says. After a three-year global study, the International Commission of Jurists said many states used the public's fear of terrorism to introduce…
Yet more email addresses to contact.
One of the members of the facebook group working against the current home education consultation (what, you haven’t filled it in? where have you been? Off you go, now!) has received a letter from her MP as follows: Had another letter back from my MP who has forwarded a letter from Sarah McCarthy-Fry, Parliamentary Under-Secretary…
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…
Home education consultation.
From the econsultation website: Email Alerts We are experiencing problems with the email alert functionality on this website. If you have requested to be alerted when consultations, or results of consultations, for which you have registered an interest, are published, we cannot guarantee that these will be issued. We are investigating ways to overcome this…
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…
Baby P: Ed Balls admits new child protection law would not have saved his life – Telegraph
Baby P: Ed Balls admits new child protection law would not have saved his life – Telegraph Anne Marie Carrie, the director of children’s services for Kensington & Chelsea in west London, was applauded for suggesting that the £224million being spent on setting up the ContactPoint database could have been used to fund more social…
A manifesto for IT education in the internet age.
Bebo kids will value privacy when they see adults do too | Comment is free | The Guardian To remain safe and free, we must raise the next generation to understand real risk and security. Let’s give pocket money based on how many CCTVs our kids can photograph on the way to school. Let’s assign…
BBC NEWS | UK | Prosecutor's security state fears
BBC NEWS | UK | Prosecutor’s security state fears But in his final speech, Sir Ken called for “level headedness” and restraint to uphold hard-won freedoms. “We need to take very great care not to fall into a way of life in which freedom’s back is broken by the relentless pressure of a security state,”…