Unschooling mother of two on the Southern English coast.
England, United Kingdom
Joined July 2018
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Hey @wizzair , how come your system fucked up my booking, but there is no way to contact you about it or get you to fix it without paying more money? Seems to me like there's incentive for your to mess up customers' bookings
Exciting!
Our own Rahel Berman is due on @TimesRadio with @mariellaf1 to chat about the judicial review at 3:15pm, you can listen live here:
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So lovely to see actual home education reflected in the media, messy and creative and social and beautiful!
Brilliant coverage of our judicial review by @itvmeridian itv.com/news/meridian/2021-1…
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Another LA has broke data protection again & can't be bothered to do their job correctly. Sent letters & personal information to the wrong address. Yet had the correct address to doorstep! Ask again why we do not want or need any such register for home educated children!
Parents who take no interest in their child's development send them to the free babysitting service provided by the state. No reason to punish us for the sake of imaginary children
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What do you make of this @CommonsEd @halfon4harlowMP theguardian.com/uk-news/2021… #FairHearing4HomeEd #notsafeinschool
That would be peanuts for the DfE. The question is, do they want good data, or do they want control?
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@drcarolinej this is a school mindset question, but it makes as much sense as asking why we are not testing children's ability to walk. We all accept that children just want to walk! Reading in a literate society is the same, unless they actively learn to hate reading
In a literate society, children naturally want to learn to read - at their own pace. If you don't teach them that learning is a dreaded chore, they are not scared of learning, as they are in school
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Learning to hate and fear reading is a problem created by school, not solved by it. I strongly recommend reading Harriet Pattison's book "Rethinking Learning to Read"
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You are giving hostile LAs tools to harass community advocates
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We were maliciously reported to social services by the EHE officers because of my community advocacy. Imagine the potential impact on my children, who are autonomously educated and have never been to school, if this rule was in place
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We were maliciously reported to social services by the EHE officers because of my community advocacy. Imagine the potential impact on my children, who are autonomously educated and have never been to school, if this rule was in place
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Victor Shafiee from @Ofstednews thinks children on protection plans shouldn't be allowed to be home educators. This opens a door to clear abuse of the system, where EHE officers can report families to social services only to prevent them from home education
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So important to understand this distinction! A register gives the LA more power over home educating families, with little accountability; proper academic research is obligated to ethical standards and is voluntary.
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@CommonsEd wants to know why there is resistance to a register when we are calling for more information. A register is not ethical research, data isn't protected and consent isn't sought
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If your child is suffering at school, protecting them is a great reason to home educate. It's good parenting to move your child to a more suitable learning environment!
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Victor Shafiee from @Ofstednews believes children protecting their children from bad schools are a "bad reason" to home educate. It isn't, and there is no evidence the reason for home education have any impact on the quality of education provided
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Entirely predictable
Why are we not surprised?..
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@LAsBadly shows exactly why people would not want to engage with LAs. They can’t be trusted to have policies in line with current guidance, so how can they be trusted in their advice?
Yes please! @CommonsEd
Can we call for a session with young people and previously home educated adults? #FairHearing4HomeEd
It really is. This is by definition a population of children for whom school did not work out well, how scaring them back into school with no individualised support be anything but harmful?
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Absolutely chilling that there's an official giving evidence to the @CommonsEd saying that taking families to court is a 'good outcome' and that 'school is the best place'. It really isn't for many families. And families in Portsmouth are being taken to court maliciously.
This is a terrifying prospect. Some LAs are going to abuse this horribly.
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How dare Ofsted suggest children on Child Protection Plans can't be home educated #FairHearing4HomeEd
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Thank you! Using SAOs to scare parents away from doing what is best for their child- how on earth can that be described as a success?!
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Victor Shafiee from @Ofstednews believes that SAOs are effective because their threat bullies families out of home education. This is not a positive outcome for children! Those children were deregistered for a reason, and received threats instead of support. This is a failure
And many examples of cases where LA involvement is actively harmful to children
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@halfon4harlowMP asks how LAs can be sure they are contacting all home educators "according to DfE guidelines". Those are not the guidelines, and there is no evidence that LAs knowing about children contributes to their welfare in any way
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This is a hostile LA that shouldn't be making any decisions about home educated children. Discriminatory and unacceptable
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In fact, @portsmouthtoday have actively blocked our children's access to resources, such as the gov funded 14-16 collage provision
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