LJ seems quiet with so many of my friends in Brighton yesterday for BiFestIt did sound rather fab and enticing, but I've been pootling along quite productively at home
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Which seems to be exactly the sort of thing that home educators are in favour of, and is certainly the way I managed to obtain a decent education in spite of school.
::amused::
yes indeed :-)
mostly parent-centric
Nothing to do with EO, but I also know a very good book by Grace Llewelyn (sp?) called something like "How to quit school and get a real life and an education", which is aimed directly at young people - say ages 9, 10 upward or so. It includes a whole section on how to broach the idea with your parents and reassure them.
This government consultation sounds like yet another bureaucratic disaster in the making
Yep, you're not wrong there. Aside from the direct effect on the home-ed families, it sounds as though the sheer scale of the inspecting they're thinking of doing would be a fairly monumental waste of time and money which could be far better spent elsewhere.
I'm finding it's actually quite a complex issue to argue about, though, partly because the ethical and practical balance between privacy and protection is always going to be a delicate one, and partly because most people don't really "get" the nature of autonomous education, so therefore they don't "get" how introducing regular external monitoring of the results would inherently undermine it. I'm doing a lot of thinking at the moment about (a) what I think myself about the proposals, and on top of that (b) what the clearest explanations might be for someone else who doesn't already have the background. At the moment it's still rather mixed up together in my head though. May post more on the subject later on.
::amused::
yes indeed :-)
mostly parent-centric
Nothing to do with EO, but I also know a very good book by Grace Llewelyn (sp?) called something like "How to quit school and get a real life and an education", which is aimed directly at young people - say ages 9, 10 upward or so. It includes a whole section on how to broach the idea with your parents and reassure them.
This government consultation sounds like yet another bureaucratic disaster in the making
Yep, you're not wrong there. Aside from the direct effect on the home-ed families, it sounds as though the sheer scale of the inspecting they're thinking of doing would be a fairly monumental waste of time and money which could be far better spent elsewhere.
I'm finding it's actually quite a complex issue to argue about, though, partly because the ethical and practical balance between privacy and protection is always going to be a delicate one, and partly because most people don't really "get" the nature of autonomous education, so therefore they don't "get" how introducing regular external monitoring of the results would inherently undermine it. I'm doing a lot of thinking at the moment about (a) what I think myself about the proposals, and on top of that (b) what the clearest explanations might be for someone else who doesn't already have the background. At the moment it's still rather mixed up together in my head though. May post more on the subject later on.
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