Emma, if the 'penalty' for having a mobile phone had been death, would you still agree to the 'sentence' being carried out, purely because 'we have to be seen to be obeying the rules'??????

Yeesh!

We are in Orwell's 1984 here, as can be demonstrated by all of those who demand the home educators must not be free to do as THEY want, but tied in to the rules of the very place that has almost destroyed their children...

"But it has to be education, it has to be structured (in whatever you way the home educator thinks might be best or appropriate) and it most certainly has to be measureable in some way or other.

Really? WHY?

Actually, it is measurable. It is measurable in my daughter's Myspace page, Dave, if you'd care to take a look way back in this thread....It's there in the photos, not of stupid face slugging back beer on drunken nights, but of children being free to be who they are, doing what they want, not through peer pressure...free to walk the fields, visit ancient buildings, play, laugh, have fun.

You have all become so up your own arses with rules and regulations, charts, tick boxes, measuring sticks, examinations...that you have all forgotten your basic product.

School SHOULD be turning out the next generation, a generation of happy, kind, compassionate young people, who know how to laugh, how to heal, how to take care of their planet and each other. They should be filled with an absolute LOVE of learning, for the rest of their lives through.

Instead, so many of them are filled with alcohol, drugs, depression and debts.

I'll take my tutoring, thanks Dave, over yours...because my kids have had a special time in their young lives, freed of factory farm pressures poured down upon them by Slave Drivers, who would rather stop a child from going to their school than dare to see common sense.

After all, school's about making a statement, innit..and that statement is 'WE are in charge!"

'their' school? If children thought school was theirs, they'd have a whole different outlook. School isn't. It belongs to the teachers and the politicians.

"If you don't think education should be structured or measureable, and it is clear that some people don't, then why call it "education"? Home or otherwise?"

Education as it has now become, Sucks.

Learning is there for life...and we learn every single day of our lives.

This week school started injecting it's 14 year old girls with the Cervical Cancer jab...en masse...and my heart died a little bit more, not only because they have no real idea what this jab will do, its side-effects on children so young, but because cervial cancer is so on the increase in youngsters, because they are having sex when their bodies aren't ready for it, let alone their minds...

But hey, do NOT get me started on the paedeophilic sex education that so many youngsters are receiving these days, with their parents knowing nothing about it....Even teachers feel uneasy...and if I told children what teachers are telling them, I'd probably be arrested, but...no matter, line the little girls up and stick a needle in them, give them the cervical cancer jab and we'll worry about the side-effects later....

'We know it works, and it's safe, 'cos the medical companies have assured us it is!'

Yeah, right...............

And another Corporate company smacks it's lips in glee from the profit they've made out of our children...just like the Corporate Examination System is doing....

Chilling, huh?


(Then Lizzie sat back and watched them all cry out in unison that none of this was true, that school was the best thing on the planet for all children...and that home educators should be trussed up with rules, same as the rest of 'em!.

...and she wept....for the children.