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Thread #123900   Message #2733257
Posted By: Emma B
28-Sep-09 - 12:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Childcare Help could be illegal UK
Subject: RE: BS: Childcare Help could be illegal UK
Lizzie do you ever actually bother to read the content of other people's posts or are you too far up in the clouds on your high horse?

What I posted that you find so patronizing was a quote from another member although, in fact, I would agree with her that all home educators should be registered and the education their children received monitored.

However the purpose of my post was to point out that this registration process has nothing whatsoever to do with the 'at risk' register.

Whatever fallacies you seek to print, the simple fact remains that home educators are not now, or under any proposals of the Badman report - should they pass into legislation - routinely placed on an 'at risk' register any more than UK teachers are instructed to educate shildren in anal sex as a form of birth control - an allegation you stated as 'fact' on the forum some time ago.

I gave you the benefit of the doubt to suggest that this was merely a misunderstanding on your part.

Whatever you think of teachers, and I think you have made your very strong and insulting views evident many times, nevertheless they are accountable and subject to rigorous inspection.
I would not expect any less accountability of edcational standards from home teaching.

May I suggest before you make any further inaccurate statements you read the report
Review of Elective Home Education in England

You may note that the report concludes that 'The diverse characteristics of home educated children make it difficult to generalize about their academic performance'
and
'Evidence offered to the enquiry on the propoertion od home educated young people who are not in education, employment or training was inconclusive'