my photoshop skills are really not too good. If anyone wants to take the idea and make it look better, format it better, change the photos to their own etc etc or if anyone wants my photos to just do a better job, please feel free. I like the idea, but my execution isn’t very good and i doubt i can make it better!!!!
EXCELLENT IDEA!! All bloggers could take it and add their own pictures! Brilliant – can I add it to facebook rally thingy?
I was struggling to avoid spitting chips at that woman, so mild sarcasm was the best i could manage!!!!!
Tech, yes of course 🙂
I like it. Very powerful!
I also loved your: “.. if you think there’s some arrogance involved in taking home a baby in the first place,” on the radio the other day 😉
That’s great! Is it 4 consultations in 2 years? Which ones are we counting? Love the idea, in any case – I may pinch it for a paper leaflet to give out at local groups.
LOVE IT!! I could add a million other reasons but those are short and to the point – good one Merry 🙂
i think it looks brill. i would suggest chris do one for our front window [where the school kids waiting for the bus can see it] and maybe for the library.
so do you have a template you could send me, so we can just change photos??
It was all a bit ad hoc really, if you can do it better, please do – i’m really all at sea with photoshop.
dani, i just used what was being quoted on the facebook site, not really up on all this yet, but they’ve been saynig 4, so i assume it is!
The stats are Tech/ahed’s – i just added the slant, the questions and the photos.
thats fantastic, well done :o)
Can I pinch the wording of it to use on my blog?
Love the poster – great idea! Is the data about 1 million children truanting accurate? or is it 1 million truant days/year?
Oh–I’ve been on a fact finding mission as well! Already posted a few to some local groups. I think the only way ahead is the facts. Over 26,000 children were abused at home last year-I bet less than 10 of those were ‘real’ home educated children. If they want to check on my kids in my home-then they have to check on everyone else’s kids. Equal rights and all that!
I was trying to find the links between the consultations and the children like the Spry girl that were killed while in social services care. Anyone found that yet? Do they all coincide at the same time, or are the consultaions a result, like this one came right after Baby P.
By the way–loved the ‘poster’!
I assume it is truanting days, i nicked the info from ahed’s bullet points of data – ask Tech!
I’d have thought so. More the better i imagine.
Fantastic!!!!!
I like it too. Honestly sometimes I wish we were still HEing … presumably I can still respond to the consultation even as a non HEor?
That is inspired. I love it. Loved what you said on the radio too.
very proud sister 🙂
this is awesome. I’ve totally stolen it and put it on my blog (with a sitation) hope that’s ok!
Too right you can Sarah – any aunties, uncles, grannies, grandads, friends, former HEers – we need all the replies we can get as the gov are putting their warped ideas into in house journals in the hope of getting lots of responses in their favour this time.
All the figures are correct and mainly sourced from BBC news items.The truanting info came from ARCH figures IIRC and IIRC it said that was the number of children truanting.
Oh and you might be interested to know that when those figures were used in the anomaly campaign, not once did the gov question or deny them 😉
Great!
great idea, will have my own bash when we got home.
Would pick up on one comment in this thread – Elizabeth, what do you mean by: “Over 26,000 children were abused at home last year-I bet less than 10 of those were ‘real’ home educated children.” What’s a real home educated child? Implies there are some who are fake, and how would they be found out without the kind of intervention govt are working towards?
I responded to something in just October of last year. I am more than slightly annoyed I need to do something again so soon.
Great poster btw. I’m not quite brave enough to do my own and put on village notice board in front of the school . . .