"But then when we look a little closer we find that she has done little to teach her children apart from take them away from school and on holiday. Their education has been by osmosis. Clearly all that guff about different learning styles means nothing. Learning is about osmosis. Osmosis is all it needs.

I feel maybe the education system need no longer tremble."


What the f*ck are you talking about Dave?   

You do realise that you've become totally obsessive about me, don't you?

I have no wish to share anything with you, let alone information on how I educated my children.

YOUR system 'educated' my daughter for 10 years, and failed, miserably. I did one helluva lot better.....and nope, you ain't gonna get a detailed lesson plan from me, because, unlike you, I'm not up my own arse about lessons.

I've two intelligent, kind, compassionate children. One had a job at 13 earning the money for his computer, on which he finds out anything he wants to know...The other has been headhunted by The National Trust, who knew she had chosen to not take any 'school exams' but were very VERY happy to employ her despite that fact. She now has two jobs and has recently bought her own car, paid for her own driving lessons too.

And your problem with my children is WHAT, exactly?

Your problem with *me*, of course, is that you have never got over the fact that I spilt the beans, way back, when you PMd me to say how much you liked the photo of me that Sam had put on his site.

Hell, hath no fury like a man scorned, eh?

Now, get off my back...and accept that for me, for my children, Home Education has been a great thing.

If I had my time over again, I would NEVER send my kids into a highly antiquated, patronising, de-sensitising system, but that is just my own personal choice.

Oh...and Dave...maybe you like to send children into a school where the teachers all have walkie talkies, where they have a 'Cooling Down' room for children who've been marched out of the classroom by teachers, due to the violent disruption they're causing. Maybe you, like other teachers, would choose to put the most disturbed pupils next to my gentle daughter, in the hope that some of her personality would rub off on them...maybe you think it's OK for every teacher to have a 'panic alarm button' under their desks.....maybe...

Maybe you think it's OK for older pupils to stand at the top of stairwells and pour boiling hot chocolate drink down onto the younger ones (ho ho ho, what a larf, eh!).....

I happen to think it's all a load of crap.

This is because I'm 54 and remember a time when school was NOTHING like it is now....and those things mentioned above, all happened, in Tavistock College and Sidmouth College too.

Maybe you think it's OK for gentle children, and girls at that, to be hit in the face by other girls. I don't.

I'm not gutless. I don't believe in ignoring the blindingly obvious....nor do I believe in accepting crap from other posters in here, Spleen Cringe, who also have an axe to grind over me, because I refused to accept their Myspace page on mine....

So, fellas, you can take you high fallutin' attitudes right away from me, because I've been through BOTH systems, school and FREEDOM...and I KNOW which one works!

So, put that in yer pipes and smoke it!

(Sorry, Joe...but Dave's had this coming for a long time!)