Comments on: Home Education Laws

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:03:13 +0000

Thank goodness the whole lot of those proposals got thrown out!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:13:33 +0000

I can see both sides, I was home educated , went to College at 15, University at 18 and have a Degree in Computer Science with Robotics and Intelligent Machinery.

I feel that the education I received from my parents was excellent as tutors where hired for areas that they could not cover.

The government has an obligation to ensure that this route is not abused and miss used but they also have an obligation in my opinion to ensure parents are treated fairly, given notice and ensure children are not put at risk by 1-2-1 interviews with strangers.

It will be interesting to see if they bring in the same rules that they now propose for those people who share the school run on a morning in relation to being vetted and a licence issued?

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:41:04 +0000

I can see your point, but I can also see the argument “well if you have nothing to hide, what’s your problem”.

Remember, sadly, there are circumstances where the home education right will be abused, to the detriment of the child.

By: Angela Thompson

Angela Thompson — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:01:31 +0000

This is a very important issue. I have been educating my children of different ages over a period of 21 years. One is at Oxford. I have met many, hard-working home-ed families. There is just no need for such blanket intrusion into our lives. Are all schooled children to be thus interviewed to ascertain if they are “safe” either at home or in school? I wonder what the real motives for these new proposals actually are.