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

120 replies

SolidGoldBrass · 16/07/2009 15:18

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...

OP posts:
JohnDory · 16/07/2009 20:03

would you use a slipper?

Greensleeves · 16/07/2009 20:03

only if you really really deserved it dory

GarconsSontCommeDesChiens · 16/07/2009 20:03

Greeny how you feeling now mate?

JohnDory · 16/07/2009 20:04

not YOU nobboid.

harpsichordcarrier · 16/07/2009 20:04

lol JD
do you know I am a qualified teecher now?
I love home edders
some of them even have a soh

Greensleeves · 16/07/2009 20:05

a bit better actually boys/dogs, thanks for asking

fennel came over and brought me cake and talked to me about things not related to snot, that helped

and I have wine, lots of it

the kids are making cards for their teachers (paint, glitter, genocide)

dh is asleep

life is good

JohnDory · 16/07/2009 20:05

you still havent told us wot your subject is.

RemusLupinInAWizardsuit · 16/07/2009 20:06

Yes. I seem to recall the yoghurt days were when they all buggered off to live in N Wales. In Manc, it was all about squatting and housing action groups and Rock Against Racism and reclaiming the streets.

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the kids were left in a front downstairs room with a bare mattress and a Banda machine to learn with, while the beardies were plotting in the back room.

Heady days.

And you wonder why I'm now obsessed with Grammar Schools

Greensleeves · 16/07/2009 20:07

congrotulations HC

I miss you fancy meeting up in London over the summer?

JohnDory · 16/07/2009 20:07

lol.
plus ca change

LadyGlencoraSnape · 16/07/2009 20:08

We'll put you in the Frustrated Classicist camp then Fennel.

Morloth · 16/07/2009 20:08

Greensleeves You should try lemon juice, honey and rum. It doesn't actually do anything, but if you put enough rum in you don't care.

Greensleeves · 16/07/2009 20:09

it sounds delectable

dory

email

or face my wrath [nails]

Greensleeves · 16/07/2009 20:09

I like you Morloth

harpsichordcarrier · 16/07/2009 20:09

yeah I do, or I could come to Where You Live
if they take the red cross off your door

Morloth · 16/07/2009 20:10

No you don't you think I am an intolerant snob!

Greensleeves · 16/07/2009 20:11

yes, yes, come to Where I Live

those of us still affected will be good and dead by then

I warn you though, my house is the size of your fridge

Greensleeves · 16/07/2009 20:12

Yes, but I also think I am a sanctimonious immature hot-headed nobbo

and I still like myself

it's not that simple, is it? I can disagree violently with somebody and it doesn't preclude friendship

JohnDory · 16/07/2009 20:19

greeny
cant remember your rl name

Bumperslucious · 16/07/2009 20:20

Do HEers count as a minority group?

Can I be in the unhealthily obsessed with Sex and the City, West Wing and X Files minority group (after all how many people would be obsessed by all three?) or the

Public Sector Workers Who Like To Crochet And Have An Allotment Group

Or the Stuck At Home With Tonsilitis While Looking After A Two Year Old Group?

Greensleeves · 16/07/2009 20:20

bugger

I remember your first name and surname, it's what comes after I can't remember

JohnDory · 16/07/2009 20:22

use first name at second name.com
[email protected]

hereidrawtheline · 16/07/2009 20:32

SGB I feel I have to point out that you would likely have a go at someone if they took the piss out of, say, people who did not believe in monogamy or similar. I mean, I am sure I have seen you get het up over what you perceive as some people's "ignorance".

I think the thread was probably intended in a lighthearted way but sometimes it feels like people get kicked while down.

For the record I have no intention to HE as I am desperate for some level of break from my SN DS but if his school proves unsuitable because of his SN I will bite the bullet and HE him. I wont have him ostracised and bullied, he already has next to no emotional resources to fall back on.

hereidrawtheline · 16/07/2009 20:33

bloody hell the thread gained over a page while I was typing that. are you all on coke or something?

siblingrivalry · 16/07/2009 20:35

That's exactly what happened to dd, hereidrawtheline. We are finding it so hard to give her everything she needs and to cope with education/OT/ CAMHS etc and I don't need to be criticised on top of everything else.