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Thread #123935   Message #2734298
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
29-Sep-09 - 01:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Home Education UK
Subject: RE: BS: Home Education UK
Hey, have some of you forgotten???????

Your children are YOURS, albeit for a short time!

YOU are the ones who taught them everything they knew, before they went to school! YOU taught them to talk, to walk, to eat, to laugh, to smile....

Why the hell have you all given up, because 'someone' decided that only an 'official' teacher can teach!

We are ALL teachers! And THAT is what has been so desperately overlooked for so very long.

ALL you have to do is teach your child a LOVE of reading and the rest...is history!

From books they will find the world, from walks they will find the world, from talks they will find the world, from the internet they will find the world....from LOVE they will FIND the world....

And it will NOT be a world filled with alcohol, and yet more photos of in yer face drunken nights at yet another partyparty...but something that we used to have, so long ago, something that we have lost.....

Wonder, Time, Amazement.



Yes, for some, school is absolutely right, because they need competition, facts, figures, tests, absolutely thrive on it....but for the rest of us, it's shite, and most of us can recall only one or two brilliant teachers that we not only liked, but loved. Why? Because they treated us like people, made us feel wanted, made us feel intelligent, made us feel we could reach for the stars...and touch them...


Here, a Myspace page that's a little different to the 'many'...one that belongs to a Home Educated child, who nearly gave up on life after 10 years in The System.

Nonny Isabella


So, please, don't give me this shite about Home Ed parents all being nutters, abusers, thickos, who can't add 2 and 2 together. We simply choose to never live within the parellel lines of life that have been laid down for so many.

Yes, there are a few Home Ed parents who are a little odd, but then there are also many In The System Ed parents who are also odd. It's life. But most of us are doing this out of love, and desperation too, because without doing it, some of us would have lost our children to suicide and depression...and NO-ONE, NO 'INSTITUTION' has the right to cause that, just because so many of us have become so indoctrinated into never being able to see 'another way'.

Education Otherwise