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Thread #127613   Message #2863779
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
14-Mar-10 - 06:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: £800 fine for low school attendance
Subject: RE: BS: £800 fine for low school attendance
My children are/were home-schooled. Their thoughts are their own. The lives are their own. They have complete freedom to learn. They never abuse that freedom. They are happy to talk to anyone of any age or background. They do not want to be part of the herd. They are far happier with being home educated, as opposed to System educated.

As I have said many times over, my daughter would have been accepted immediately into college, had she chosen to go, because Exeter College is very happy to accept home educated children, finding them intelligent, polite and very willing to learn.

She welcomed with open arms. However, the art teacher who spoke to her said she felt it only fair to let her know that there are many young people in college who do not want to learn, who are merely there to pick up the money they now get paid for staying in further education. So, if she (my daughter) thought it would be different to school, it wasn't, due to many disruptive pupils.   It angered the tutor, left her feeling helpless in the face of students such as my daughter, who want to learn because they have a deep love of learning.

The pressures inside The School System nearly killed one of my children and started my younger child on the road to giving up wanting to learn anything, because of the humiliation he was dished out by his form teacher.

Home Education set them free.


There are controlling home educating parents, there are also very controlling school educating parents. One is not worse than the other, they are equally as bad. Parents of school pupils abuse their children, so do some home educating parents. To make out that one is more inclined to do so than the other, is rubbish.

My children were born FREE. They were put into The System, by me, for way too many years...and the damage those within that System did to both my children was appalling.

They are now back to their natural state...

FREE