A while ago, home educators watched (if they could bear it and weren’t too busy packing ready to claim asylum in the US) the reading of the latest Education Bill as it went through the House of Lords. We had some fairly strong support, which was heartening and said a lot for the people who […]
Open Letter to Fern Britton & Jeremy Vine
I write to you regarding your shameful coverage of the Khyra Ishaq case on the Jeremy Vine Show on Friday. While the interview was conducted by Fern, it was done in the name of JV and quite honestly, you should both be ashamed. Fern, to be a journalist is many things; there is, without doubt, […]
You may say i am mentally ill. I couldn't possibly comment.
Münchhausen’s By Proxy – that weapon of war against mothers. Used to vilify women in all sorts of scenarios and now, thankfully, largely dead in the water after Dr Roy Meadows was discredited for using it to bring to their knees the mothers of children who fell victim to cot death. I do not have […]
Dear Ed Balls & the DCSF – no thank you.
Inspired by Helen and Jax. You have conspired to question whether my children are safe in their own home, with their own parents, without any evidence of justification for doing so. My children are my children, conceived and grown by me, fed and clothed by me, nurtured and loved by me, taught to walk and […]
Where have all the Guidelines gone?
In a curious twist of fate and in a moment of data loss that will no doubt be of extreme concern to Mr Ed Balls MP and the DCSF themselves, these Guidelines For Local Authorities on Elective Home Education, have gone missing from the DCSF website. This is a strange thing; these guidelines were thrashed […]
Equations = Power
Fran and i have been learning equations this last few weeks. I never liked equations; as a child, i struggled to see use for much of what i learned in maths and because i couldn’t see why or how to use them in real life, i didn’t really learn how they were working or why […]
Utopia?
I ask you to imagine the unimaginable. I ask you to imagine a country where the fabric of society has broken down. I ask you to imagine a place where crime is rife, where the young people roam the streets and schools with knives and guns in their pockets, where the disaffected gather on street […]
