MPs deliver petition against Home Education Report (From Daily Echo)
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MPs deliver petition against Home Education Report
6:00am Wednesday 9th December 2009 in
TWO HAMPSHIRE MPs last night delivered petitions of thousands of signatures against proposals to tighten the rules on parents who educate their children at home.
Fareham’s Mark Hoban and Romsey’s Sandra Gidley presented part of the protest against the Badman Report into Home Education.
The report, which called for closer monitoring of home educators, including a compulsory annual registration scheme and a right of access to people’s homes for local authority officials, has been accepted by the Government.
But critics say the plans are an affront to privacy and would represent an “invasion of family life by the state”.
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now in the north
says...
5:21pm Wed 9 Dec 09
It is unlikely that these people would not badly educate their children if they have taken the time to investigate home schooling.
This new legallity (not law) also ensures they have access to your home and everything in it while they come to do their "investigation"
essexman
says...
6:25pm Wed 9 Dec 09
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now in the north says...
5:18pm Wed 9 Dec 09
When he then argued that he thought global warming was a scam he was asked to show why...he did...and then the emails were released days later.
When he was then asked to write an essay about it, he was told just to write what they told him at school and nothing else.
I called and was told even the exam papers only say "some scientist believe" (at yet we are about to be taxed on breathing due to what some scientists believe)
I have always taught my child to look at the bigger picture and not just at what he is told as people are not always honest and dont always know what they are talking about themselves.
These new plans are to ensure that children only learn what the government want them to learn. Despite all children being different, and no teacher knowing a child as well as a parent does, they still insist they know whats best for your child.
Parents should be allowed to teach their children what their children need for the future. If we learned less in school about the "highly selective" bits of WW2 and more about things like tax returns or social acceptance then the world would be a slightly better place...but they dont want your child to know that, as it reduces their control over the population as it grows.