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

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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...

that is my fear. that my life will totally spiral out of control if school doesnt go well for DS. well it is one of my million fears.

Hereidraw, well I can usually distinguish between ignorance and piss-taking- the latter is fine and to be encouraged even when I am the target. FFS I'm a morris dancer, something plenty of people see as highly amusing. ANd you are welcome to do so, because I know I'm having more fun than you. So while I utterly defend the rights of those who want to HE to do so, whether they are self-obsessed hippy twats, flat-earthers, dysfunctinal social phobics with an elevated sense of their own importance, or just people who, for whatever reason, find the mainstream education system doesn't suit them or their DC, I defend my right to laugh at them and everyone else.

SGB fair enough. I am in no mood to argue. Am confused how you can know you are having more fun than me... ? Very likely true my life is fairly hard at the moment. But a personal attack on me isnt nice or something to be very proud of.

No, hereidrawtheline, it won't spiral out of control -promise
I felt the same initially, when dd was suffering and we had to remove her. But there are good schools who will support your ds. And if school didn't work out, there are always others to try. I think it's really fear of the unknown -I was the same before dd started school.

The trick is to try to get support in place before he starts.We didn't do that, because dd initially 'seemed' to cope. Hindsight is a wonderful thing!

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?

rofl at you being a morris dancer

I would rather eat my own labia - with horseradish

really dont see why people are getting worked up on this! op is asking what % of home edders are hippy chicks- there is a % that are! and so what? the OP is a joke! humour?

i was gonna home ed. DS has special needs, i went on a home edders trip. put me off for life tho that was years ago - im sure that now there is a much more diverse cross section of families that do choose to home ed but i really cant see the need to get so offended by the OP!

(morris dancing is much funnier!)

Would you really rather eat your own labia with horseradish than be a morris dancer, Greenie? The former does sound excruciatingly painful... Serious sense of humour failure from some of the HEers on this thread, I must say.

am on page 3 and did just LOL at 'banana trousers'

thank you!

Any other MN archetypes to be found in Viz cartoons?

Bit of mileage in Spoilt Bastard, I'd have thought...

And I knew a vicar who used to swear like Paul Whicker.

lol unquietdad!

in my YOOF i used to read viz....i loved the top tips section.

Well there's 8-Ace, for twunt DHs/DPs everywhere...

I went on a stag-night out in Newcastle in 1998, about 10 years after first reading Viz. I was ready to have my stereotypes challenged - but it was full of "The Fat Slags" and "Sid The Sexists", in person!

Tasha Slapper and Tasha Slappa's Mam, of course.

I'm sure I've seen Finbar Saunders and his double entendres about here somewhere.

He's passed into popular discourse, hasn't he? People who would once have said "oo-er, missus" now say "fnarr fnarr." Even if they haven't read Viz!

A friend of mine is planning to HE because the only catchment secondary has gone drastically downhill since it was turned into an academy against vociferous local opposition. The academic standards have hit rock bottom, they have had riots, 29 staff including the headteacher left in one week, there is no homework, there have been serious problems with teachers not turning up for lessons and pupils being left to entertain themselves. My friend does not want this for her children. And funnily enough, all the other local school are suddenly crammed to the gills, with parents stampeding to get their children in.

What I would like is a suitable category for the plonkers who let this happen.

I'm a home edder and I think it's hilarious! I'm of the more hippie type in comparison to mainstream society but I'm incredibly straight compared to some home edders! And I do have to chuckle inside at some things, like the time they had to break out a first aid box at a hall we rent and there was no lavender in it! Or someone's child absolutely refusing to go to a camp even though her friends are going because she would be forced to have vegan food AGAIN.

Besides I think it shows a certain social acceptance if you've moved from a slightly freaky and suspicious group to one people are happy to take the piss out of!

We don't have Modern Parents in our group, it's uber lentil weavers or slightly bemused regular folk.

There is a bonkers element though

Well there are people who home ed because they are complete maniacs. Certainly in the US home ed is popular among the more deranged Christians - oh, and the white supremacists. SO it's not unreasonable to consider that some HE parents may be taking their DC out of school because they don't want them being taught along side too many non-white DC, for instance.

Oh, and if you are demented enough to interpret that post as 'Waaaah, SGB says all home edders are racists and I'm not' then I really really hope you are getting someone else in to teach your DC basic reading and comprehension.