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

How kind of you.

>>>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.<<<<

If you have ever really bothered to read my posts, Emma, you will find, that I have said, over and over again, that I have the utmost respect for BRILLIANT teachers! Ones who inspire their children, who make them feel precious, wanted, needed, intelligent and that they can achieve so very much, if they try hard enough. Ones who do not criticise or belittle, but who know instinctively a child's strong points, their skills....and do all they can to encourage that child.

I have no time for spiteful prats though, who...because they hide behind the title of 'teacher' think they have the God Given Right to humiliate, wound and verbally abuse......


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Home Educators are checked one, or twice a year. Once if they're labelled 'satisfactory'....twice if not, more if the EWOs are worried.
Unless your child goes to private school and is withdrawn, in which case, they're not checked up on at all..Hey ho.

My kids, and many other home educated children, usually end up talking the socks of their EWOs..who often delight in coming to see kids who *haven't* been switched off from learning, because they're not *forced* to learn things they have no interest in. What the hell is that all about, forcing kids to learn something they hate? Haven't teachers worked out yet that kids won't learn something they don't want to learn? It's hardly rocket science.

Take up the Home Educators children being marked down as 'at risk' with 'Education Otherwise', Emma. I'm sure they'll be able to help you.