Dare to Know

So how do you go one step further away from state control than autonomous home education? You simply don't deign to designate your life...

Of course, every solution presents a new problem, and a problem that can arise from the solution of the adoption of the theory of parental f...

One of the more common explanations for why parental bullying is, if not optimal, at least morally permissable, is that it simply impossible...

In recognising that the bullying culture in schools extends beyond that which children do to one another into the reaches of the fabric of t...

Realistically there are constraints that make home education either a doddle or a struggle, but in a bid to present the best possible world,...

The friends of Nathan Jones, the boy who committed suicide as a result of bullying at school, have had their website closed down because of ...

And now for the real reasons why one should home educate: http://makeashorterlink.com/?U11646EEA

Here's a reason to make quite sure your kids know that they could home educate if ever they want to, and that they needn't even tell...

http://education.independent.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=629847 'April 2005. A 12-year-old boy found hanging at his family home was drive...

David Brooks of the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/opinion/17brooks.html?hp&oref=login writes: "The fact is, sex ...

OK, so this whole entry is triggered by a below-the-belt suspicion. There is no real reason to suspect Paul Johnson, long-term Spectator co...

Saturday night and a combination of workable car, perfect music, fine company, the dark river, super novae sky and OK, just a few Cote de Be...

Roger Scruton is one of those writers, (like Paul and Boris Johnson, but unlike Mark Steyn who is pretty consistently right), whose argument...

There are out-takes and there are out-takes. We found this one again this morning, when looking for something else (of a much more obviously...

Uncontrolled corpsing is not, sadly, confined to TV land. I think I may owe someone a signficant apology since there is a reasonable chanc...

A wonderful day at an HE meeting, with over forty people present. There was not one, NOT ONE even minor instance of bullying there, not betw...

What do hamsters and marijuana have in common? I'll tell you. They are both perfect examples, should anyone be in any doubt about the ma...

The beeb, with characteristic false self-deprecation, seems to be quite happy to promulgate the oldest urban myth around...ie: that TV viewi...

The best that can be said about the situation in schools as portrayed in this programme is that at least severe bullying is at last being ta...

Ouch...Have lent my laptop to the wonderful individual who periodically restores our computers to a reasonable standard of health whenever D...