Dare to Know

An admirably persistent home educator has kept on at the DfES until he got some result from his many FOI requests for information about DfES...

...looks to have been blasted out the water if this letter is to be believed. Thanks ARCH . Cheering to read a bit of plain speaking first ...

Suggestions for completing the consultation on the draft Home Education Guidelines We have included some draft responses which we hope you w...

It seems it isn't just Runescape that can teach you the basic principles of the market place. This stock-dealing home schooler started...

Education Otherwise have the following to say on getting those responses in now : "We must not think that the threat to our freedoms ha...

...via Action for Home Education , we hear that the shadow DfES team "...believe that parents should be free to choose the best educat...

What an unholy mess this one is. One can only conclude that people in the DfES who really should know better, haven't got a clue about ...

Ok , peeps, stay with me on this one! I do know how boring I've become on this issue, and I also personally know how very easy it is to...

Sarah and family are moving to New Zealand. We wish them every happiness and will be keeping an eye on their musical progress here .

Looks to me as if Action for the Rights of Children should be talking to Andrew Sullivan about getting the word out.

Dd and I are feeling rather like Alfred Russell Wallace (whose monument we chanced upon in Usk the other day), or Ernest Duchesne in that...

I love this patch of the garden so much. Credit is due to Dh for sticking with the idea when I had most definitely lost the faith! All nati...

If you can cope with a stream of fatuous remarks, you can see how a couple stoically attempted to deal with Dr Phil's misperceptions abo...

Here's Blogdial's take on Contactpoint, aka: The Information Sharing Index/Children's Database: "Parents have the absolute...

A group for young people who have been home educated and who are now in further education can be found through the search facility in Facebo...

Jonathan Dimbleby hosts a panel-led studio debate on the raising of the school leaving age in which Jim Knight (Schools Minister) implies t...

Blogdial is on fine form in his response to Blair's oblique attack on bloggers. What next, it makes one wonder? A Google Thames Barrier...

From what we saw in France, I would say this article about parenting style is just about right. The level of violence towards children fro...

Below a response to the Raising Expections Consultation. Please do use and adapt for more responses. = = = = = = = = = = = = Consultation Q...

and Joy Baker who nearly lost their kids . Aspie Home Education has a link to a YouTube story of the injustices that were faced by the ho...