Acid, balls and phloem down the village hall

Don't tell me that home ed kids sit miserable and alone at the kitchen table everyday, worn half dead with the hourly parental beatings.

Or how their spooky hippie-creationist-evangelical-abducted by aliens parents keep their children at home as psychological props because, well, because they're all mentally ill.

We heard that crap already.

We were very composed in our response. No-one ever swung by with baseball bats and an assault rifle, did they?

No. We merely demonstrated in blogs like this what a fantastic mixed bunch of humanity we are. We simply showed you ourselves, and how there are many ways of forming a home education experience. We told you where we meet, how we get together, and how you can see bits of us washing up routinely inside your local village hall.

Next time you pass, peer in through the dusty windows, and see what we're doing.

Alright, it's possible you do see a goat, so I won't entirely rule that out. It's Marvin, who likes to bring his animals. But I bet you won't see any type of strange goat slaughter or naked dancing druids while a bloke bangs an antler with a stick. You won't see that. Any stories about that happening are made up, OK?

You might, of course, see what looks like a terrible bloodied breast, emitting acidic volcanic lava. I'll give you that one.


And the horrible ritual slicing of eggs. It is merely curiosity. No baby quails were sacrificed in the ordeal.


Alright, you might see some balls being thrown about. There was a bucket.


And I admit there was a small amount of fire. But we had an extinguisher.


And the phloem. Mustn't forget that.


I could include the fruit batteries, the fake meteorite, the demonstration of light waves passing through water, the bug table, the aeroplane test, the egg in vinegar, and the crystal growing and slime, made from borax, glue and water.





You might see all of those things.

You might scurry on past the village hall, and conclude there is something weird going on, and those home ed types are probably shape shifting lizards in disguise.

Hmm. Thinking about it, maybe you should believe that. Yes. Better stay away!

Then I don't have to tell you that it's a home ed Science Fair. If you knew that, everyone might want to join in, and there aren't enough teabags to go round.