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Home ed a place to really let rip and debate

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singingmum · 09/07/2007 12:21

OK so it seemed needed so I'll start.
I HE.It is best fro my dc's in my opinion and that of my dp.
Why? Well a number of reasons really.I'll be short as have tired fingers from posting on other HE threads where anyone who wishes can see the full story.
My dp,my brothers,my friend and myself all attended the same comp over diff years.It was crap.
I actually became bored of learning the same stuff over and over again.My dp and brothers were pigeon holed for having learning difficulties(ie dyslexia)and were taught very badly and left to rot.My friend could learn much but was often left to it and did not do as well as she could.
My son had mega probs caused by nursery and am not putting either of my dc's go through that as my ds is bright but may have aspergers and my dd has dyslexic tendencies.
So as everyone has been letting rip indiscrimenently(bad spelling sorry)I thought I'd put it all in one place.
Let rip ladies and gents

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lionheart · 09/07/2007 19:23

HC That's horrid and so sad.

NKF · 09/07/2007 19:23

How many do home ed because of religious beliefs? I know that in the States that's often stated as a reason but are there any statistics for the UK?

Blandmum · 09/07/2007 19:23

SM, I'm sure many HE do, but I lost one kids to fundimentalist parents who objected to him learning anything other than christian beliefs. I'm not putting money on him learning about any other religion

Saturn74 · 09/07/2007 19:24

He's a happy, confident, funny, witty, crazy and LOUD little dude now though.
And he can read and write!

fillyjonk · 09/07/2007 19:24

I had a great time at school

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singingmum · 09/07/2007 19:25

Well said Humphrey .I'm to knackered also to be too controlling
{did your boys get my ds's latest e-mail?It took him a while to write.Have set him up with his own address but am unsure wether or not the e-mail was sent properly as keep typing addresses wrong}

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lionheart · 09/07/2007 19:25
Grin
Blandmum · 09/07/2007 19:25

HC

Saturn74 · 09/07/2007 19:25

Was referring to my DS2 there, not MB's former pupil, btw.

fillyjonk · 09/07/2007 19:26

"How many do home ed because of religious beliefs? I know that in the States that's often stated as a reason but are there any statistics for the UK? "

I don't know many, tbh.

Sue does, I think?

I know one woman in rl who does.

Among around 50 HEs of my aquaintance, thats it. Its NOT prevalent in the UK.

Saturn74 · 09/07/2007 19:26

SM - they replied this very afternoon, I do believe.
(Actually, I know full well they did, as I did the typing whilst they dictated it to me! )

lionheart · 09/07/2007 19:27

I would have thought HEs would also include a high proportion of independently minded

parents or people who embrace supposedly alternative lifestyles as well as right-wing, conservative fundamentalists?

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singingmum · 09/07/2007 19:29

Funnily thats the way most things my ds wants typed ends up being done.Thanks ds will be v.happy.Hopefully he will reply quicker this time.

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Saturn74 · 09/07/2007 19:30

They all seem to have similar interests, which is great.

Blandmum · 09/07/2007 19:30

LH, that rational doesn't hold in he states. There are lots of fundimentalists HE over there.

It just depends if you HE to be 'free to' as opposed to being 'free from' I think

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singingmum · 09/07/2007 19:33

will check back later to see where this is going as parents have turned up

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ahundredtimes · 09/07/2007 19:33

ooh I like that distinction MB, you're so great. I wish you were my teach.

I was seduced here by the promise of letting rip. There doesn't seem to much of that going on, just ds's emailing each other about their interests and mild mannered exchange of views on fundamentalist christians.

Saturn74 · 09/07/2007 19:36

I think Home Ed is fab, and anyone who doesn't do it is..................
quite strange.
Ha!

fillyjonk · 09/07/2007 19:37

in the states there is a very vocal group of fundementalist HErs

The whole situation is different. You have MORE HErs. The religious fundementalists are a very powerful lobby, in education as elsewhere.

The history of HE in the US vs the UK is very different, largely because they have had to fight for the right to HE in many states, and so the more left wing, non-fundementalist parents have NEEDED the right-wing fundementalist lobby-Raymond Moore and so on-who iirc are often bankrolled by the republicans-in order to get anywhere. So they do dominate the HE community for historical reasons.

In the UK the situation is very different. It has always been legal to HE, but the people pushing it in the 60s/70s were hippies and early green activists-John Holt, the father of HEing, definately falls into this category.

I really would say that fundementalists are rare, but crucially, they are not really separate from other HErs. There aren't seperate camps of HErs, you just muddle along with everyone.

ahundredtimes · 09/07/2007 19:40

lol. You're all too damned nice, and I don't have any axe to grind so I'm no good, except, except, perhaps. . . .

I'll think of something in a minute.

CodinaKag · 09/07/2007 19:40

is there no letting ripthen

Saturn74 · 09/07/2007 19:41

ripping in public is just so unseemly.

ahundredtimes · 09/07/2007 19:41

No. They're all very reasonable and rather charming and their ds's email each other. Not even a fundamentalist christian in sight.

SueBaroo · 09/07/2007 19:43

Hey now, I bath the dc's and when I come back the thread steams on ahead of me.

Yeah, one of our under-pinning reasons for HE is religious. We be dem scaree fundieMENTALists Very much in a minority in the UK, but that's OK, I rather like the diversity of opinion and style in the UK HE community.

We are waaay over-protective by modern standards, I guess. I'd love to be more controlling than I am, then we might actually see the carpet by the end of the day.

works up some foam to complete the kerazee stereotype

lionheart · 09/07/2007 19:47

There are three different spellings of the f word on this thread.

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