Posts Tagged ‘government’
Victory for Home Education in England
The British government's plans for a series of oppressive regulations on home education are all washed up today. And home educators there are rejoicing, albeit with caution. The nasty requirements for unsupervised and unannounced interviews with home educated children, and security checks and registration for home educating parents have been [...]
On Homeschooling and Child Abuse
I’ve been putting off writing about the difficult topic of child abuse. My time is at a premium right now. Abuse is a difficult topic. And it isn’t a life learning topic. But some people keep trying to make it one. So I have posted my thoughts and some background on my personal blog. What finally pushed me to write about this is [...]
What’s Wrong With the Schooling Mentality
The marketplace of ideas has become monopolized by corporations and institutions, and our coercion-based education system is used to create a society of consumers rather than one of thinkers. For almost twenty years (since he resigned from teaching while he was New York State Teacher of the Year), John Taylor Gatto has been writing and [...]
It’s Not Progressive to Force Regulation by a Dinosaur
There’s been an earnest new academic journal article published entitled "The Harms of Homeschooling." (Note, January 2010: I have removed the link to this article for now due to difficulties downloading the file.) Author Robin L West attacks the lack of regulation of homeschooling (she doesn't mention or indicate that she understands [...]
Fight the Government, Not Each Other
Many readers of this blog will be aware of what’s been happening regarding homeschooling in the UK over the past six months. We hope to publish an article in Life Learning documenting the situation. But for now, see my posts at my personal blog Challenging Assumptions for background: June, July and October, or do a google search for more [...]