grit's day: Out of office autoreply

Wednesday 28 July 2010

Out of office autoreply

Maybe if I spend all the free time of my day reading the comments unroll over here, the house will pack up by itself. The laundry will put itself on, the floor tidy itself, the privet trim itself, and Shark might go shopping and cook for everyone, all day long.

8 comments:

sharon said...: Oh my! I read the first 50 comments. It would appear that any pro Home Education article really brings out the ignorant bigots. Sad, very sad.; 30 July 2010 at 02:18
Grit said...: read on, sharon! the comments become longer, more carefully expressed, and many issues are raised.

what i do find astonishing is that after such careful explanation of some key points about home ed (eg the education, well-being, happiness of the child at the centre of it all) we still can get the odd commentator who concludes 'school is best and you're all a bunch of freaks'. i should thank them. they make me laugh.; 30 July 2010 at 02:59
Big mamma frog said...: I confess I've been avoiding reading it. Just don't have the stamina or stomach for it any more.; 30 July 2010 at 05:02
Slugs On The Refrigerator said...: holy smokes, batman! that is some article!!!! dumfoundingly scary!!

have to almost laugh at some of it...almost; 30 July 2010 at 07:16
Deb said...: Yeah, OR you'll go mad and want to hide in a closet to escape all the ignorant mean people.

SERIOUSLY - Parents should not be the sole decider in their child's education? Do these people even hear what they are saying?

Idiots. Scary, scary, idiots.; 30 July 2010 at 09:21
Grit said...: i just look on it as added material. xx; 31 July 2010 at 00:56
kelly said...: I didn't want to read it, but I had to.

So, so depressing. The Pro-schoolers don't even come up with a good arguement. They post personal comment and then run away.

We are all a bunch of freaks though, admit it :); 31 July 2010 at 01:06
MadameSmokinGun said...: How do these people put one foot in front of another with so much poison in their systems?

I am SO glad I am not in THEIR world. I am in THE world. And I can see and hear and feel and taste and smell with total freedom of thought.

These people are the result of school education!

But so am I!

I am the result of looking out of the window at the world when I was supposed to be listening to the teacher. SO glad I did!; 31 July 2010 at 04:12

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This blog is a record of a home education
writ for parents thinking about home ed
writ for the LA who need an education about home ed
writ for Grit's friends and relations who drop in once a year
and writ for Grit's sane and lovely mind.

But maybe you were right all along.

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Eek. Let's learn how to kill imagination.

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. Philip Pullman.

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'Home educators are renowned for their strong opinions and independent spirit. They come from all faiths and none. They have as many approaches to education as there are children. They rarely agree on anything. And yet they are remarkably united in their opposition to these proposals. There is great concern that their way of life will be legislated out of existence.'
--Response to the Badman Review of Elective Home Education in England and reaction to the Select Committee hearing.

The problem with home educators is that they are impossible to define. The only things that links them is respect for their children. And did the state just stagger foolishly across that line?
Are we sandal wearing tree huggers who let our kids run wild or control mad Jesus freaks who don't want them learning about sex and evolution? Are we hot housing or leaving them to watch TV and play computer games all day? -Firebird.
The UK government suggested that we home educate our children to cover up our abuse.
On that issue, would you like some statistics?

'The Department [for Children, Schools and Families] is aware that attempts are being made on the Internet to vilify and harass the author of the review. It is the Department's view that, whilst dealing with each request on its merits, this situation will have to be taken into account in dealing with any relevant FOI requests. ... we anticipate the need to consider whether it is in the public interest to release information likely to intensify any such campaign, or to lead to harassment or distress to individuals.'
Hello DCSF. Vilify: to make vicious and defamatory statements about.
Like putting it about that home educated children are abused by their parents? Isolated? Unsocialised? Denied an education?
And the latest one, that their mothers have Munchhausen's Syndrome by Proxy, and benefit from their child's suffering.

Go and visit Renegade Parent

... compulsory registration, entry to the home, inspection according to external standards, and power to see the child without the parent present.
By implication this applies to anyone who has their child at home with them: particularly parents with under 5s, but also those with school-aged children who are at home in the evenings, over the weekends, and throughout the summer holidays. Think on: the possibility of parental inspection, with or without your presence, based on the very human whim of a local authority officer.
Is that okay with you?
Renegade Parent on the implications for all parents from the Badman review of home education.

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