So, no-one's answered me yet...

Phew, Lizzie! Quite rightly so I expect. My children are now all grown up so I can be objective about kids in and just out of school. Looking at what you have just said though, if I had kids at school or just out, I would absolutely furious and incapable of answering with any modicum of retraint.

You say - IF schools are doing this wonderful job, why is the country so dumbed down? Why are employers always complaining that kids can't do this, can't do that..? Why are so many kids at University who er...aren't really bright enough to be there? Why has a degree now become almost meaningless, as in 'everybody's got one of those'?

What other way do we have of reading this apart from young people currently coming out of education, including higher education are not particularly bright. Please note that you have not qualified that with 'some' children or 'in my opinion'. You have just alienated evry single parent in the UK who sends their children to school. Can you not see that? Can you not see why people shout at you? Anyhow, pressing on...

Home Educated children are actually seen as different, in a very positive way, because they're outside The System and more often than not, think for themselves, think differently, don't run with the pack mentality.

Home educated children are better than school educated ones. Including yours I suppose. School educated ones cannot think for themselves and just 'run with the pack'. Not only have you put in the knife. You are now twisting it.

Just another way of looking at things.......

I've spent the last 30 minutes looking at the kids my daughter went to school with, on Facebook photos..They're all interchangeable. Everyone's partying till they drop, drinking till they drop...

I feel I've suddenly started living inside HELLO magazine! It was spooky and depressing, because I remember those children when they were little..and they were very different back then..but then, that was before they were sent inside The System for near on 13 years.....

..,..then, when they came out...............

"There's a pink one, and a blue one and a green one and a yellow one....and they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same..."

The kids your daughter went to school with are off the rails. Note - Not some kids - just 'the kids'. They are 'all interchangeable'. They are all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same. It reads like every single kid out of the standard schooling system is to be tarred by your brush. Not only have you twisted the knife. You are now chopping up the livers.

And don't tell me that I am reading the wrong message from your words. It is plain for all to see. Children educated in schools = bad. Children educated at home = good. Never mind that you have previously said schools are good for some kids. This is NOT how this latest tirade reads.

It has been mentioned before that your posts do lean towards the outrageous. This one absolutley takes the biscuit but I will say one thing. If what you wanted was to keep me away from your postings you are well on the way. I am now not just worried, but but positively afraid. And not in a good way.

If you cannot see how offensive your post is toward a HUGE number of decent parents with decent kids in state education then I am afraid there is absolutely no hope of reasoning with you.


Dave