Home education survives! (slightly late)
Apr. 20th, 2010 11:08 pmI have been a bit of a failure in keeping up to date with the Children, Schools, and Families Act 2010 - which had included all the Badman recommendations for the compulsory registration of home educated children and so on and so forth.
Turns out it passed into law on April 8th. With all the home educated stuff removed. Completely.
So, rejoice, rejoice, and remember: Education is compulsory, school is not.
I'll end with a quote from Lord Lucas on the matter*:
"We are considering a section of the Bill which will cost £20 million per annum, which is about £1,000 per home-educated child. These children receive no money to help pay the costs of examinations; no money to buy textbooks; no money to buy materials; no money and no tuition to help them over difficulties in education. Now the Government can find £1,000 for each of these children-and will spend it on auditing them. Not one penny will go to help the children; it will all go on auditing them. What have these people done to deserve that?"
* I really do not approve of the current state of affairs regarding the unelected house of Lords. However, they have swatted down and opposed so many absolutely stupid Labour policies in the past year or two that I have to feel a little bit grateful towards them.
For more information see: http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/csfbill.htm and http://www.education-otherwise.org/legal.htm
Turns out it passed into law on April 8th. With all the home educated stuff removed. Completely.
So, rejoice, rejoice, and remember: Education is compulsory, school is not.
I'll end with a quote from Lord Lucas on the matter*:
"We are considering a section of the Bill which will cost £20 million per annum, which is about £1,000 per home-educated child. These children receive no money to help pay the costs of examinations; no money to buy textbooks; no money to buy materials; no money and no tuition to help them over difficulties in education. Now the Government can find £1,000 for each of these children-and will spend it on auditing them. Not one penny will go to help the children; it will all go on auditing them. What have these people done to deserve that?"
* I really do not approve of the current state of affairs regarding the unelected house of Lords. However, they have swatted down and opposed so many absolutely stupid Labour policies in the past year or two that I have to feel a little bit grateful towards them.
For more information see: http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/csfbill.htm and http://www.education-otherwise.org/legal.htm