to wonder what percentage of Home Edders are basically the Modern Parents out of Viz?

[SolidGoldBrass]

I have been enjoying reading my friends' blog about their holiday at a special camp for Home Ed families. It sounds rather nice, on the whole. But every now and again I just get this urge to go down there and hand out Happy Meals to the DC...

So was it actually free? In monetary terms? Not just in spirit.

A sort of cooperative home ed system? (Someone tried to rope me into plans for one of those recently. Due to my lentilweavery image, I think).

My DS was bullied out of the school system, and HE is the best thing that ever happened to us. We would never return to school, and my others have the choice to come out tomorrow if they wished.

But I am still not bothered that people think it is weird. We HE'ers know the truth, that there are people from all walks of life who do it for all manner of reasons, and also HE in many different ways.

It is a fact, that some people appear a bit strange, but equally you get a great many of those at the school. Their parenting can differ hugely as we all know.

Now, I would be offended if they said we were unable to teach our children as well as in school. That I would have a problem with, but this thread, no.

fuck me fennel, who could possibly look at you and make such wild assumptions?

oh fgs
WHY do home edders boys always HAVE to haev long hair?

haha
at being offended by being called drippy by someone who hasnt even seen you!

poopscoop as I understand it nobody is actually saying you shouldn't home educate or you must be XYZ if you home educate

It's an option I keep open, certainly for ds1 if things turn nasty

Isn't a tongue-in-cheek ribbing OK though, as long as there is no real malice involved? I don't mind people taking the piss out of me as long as I know there is nothing really nasty underlying it.

fuck off fishwits

my boys have beautiful long golden tresses (on my profile )

although one MNer did say ds1's made him look "a bit special" - does that mean he looks home educated?

I dunno actually (about whether Free Schools were monetarily free....) I assume so, since all the people we knew in Manchester at the time were poor students and radicals and activists and youth workers etc, so I'd be very surprised if money changed hands.

I think they were, as you say, a kind of co-op. It was very much in the post-commune spirit of sharing resources and ideologies. Quite a sane kind of idea in many ways, but a bit misguided in its ideological focus.

I shall ask my mother.

so if i said

" are men who wear yellow cords wankers"
youd be all offended wended woo woo if you were a banana trouser man.
or would you think "Hey! i love my cord colour choice"

like a NOrmal Human been

John - They don't, but those that do do so because they have high enough self-esteem to be able to have their hair the way they want it rather than the way it is cool to have it. I see it as a very positive thing.

I'd tell you to fuck off

and it would add a little frisson of warmth to my otherwise uneventful day

greensleeves - I said I was ok with the thread

NOrmal human been.

Wot, like a has-been?

JohnDory, you make me laugh. Thanks for passing on the email btw - very helpful convo.

JohnDory, the point is, why do you feel the need to be so unpleasant? What's the point?

no like a human bean
is age old phrase.
In the magna Carter.

( after that terrible thread about the poet laureate i cannot stop laughing at)

I agree, Greensleeves, but the tone of SGBs' comments are unkind, IMO. There is definitely malice there and that's what has upset me.

I'm far from the stereotypical home edder, so it's not a case of her touching a nerve or anything. However, I object to the nature of some of the comments and to the assumption that minority groups are fair game.

so I see poop

I read the first line or so and freaked

[wrings hands]

[despicable]

dory dh has funted up our computer and I have lost your email address

ok
FESS UP

who is clicking madly on profiles

I really, really fail to understand why people say or write spiteful things - does it actually achieve anything? Does it give you pleasure?

malice??
oh come now, hardly

wothca harpy

I didn't think so either HC

but the reaction is a bit scary

[cuddles up to HC]

You have to take greeny with a pinch of (organic low sodium free range) salt, she's been stuck at home for 3 weeks with swine flu.

I would rather like a leftie Mancunian coop. Round here in Yurt Valley all the home edding (and there's lots of it) is focused on baking bread and getting back to nature and nurturing those indigo children.

I would consider home ed if my children were miserable at school but I know, being me, it would be with a fiercely academic approach. No bread baking. Lots of classical literature and extra maths. The poor children are probably better off at school.