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Climate Change, home education, weather enthusiast. Occasionally plays piano and enjoys walks in the wilderness. 🏴 🇮🇪 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧
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Or looking at a car manual together to find out how to access a fuse box, selecting the correct fuse to piggy back on and why, how to attach the negative to the frame of the car and why. Although potentially trivial it also builds a foundational knowledge but it's not structured, etc. Very informal.
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Unsurprisingly, yes 🙄
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What's the point in driving kids towards to the top outcomes if then they can't take the next steps as they can't afford it? Limiting our English kids opportunities
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If you create a system in which schools are judged on exam results, academic subjects are prioritised, curriculum is narrowed and zero tolerance approaches are promoted, you're basically creating a system that becomes less inclusive by design.
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Indeed, we wait in anticipation of what impact the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill will ultimately have. The government and others have been rather underhand in misrepresenting home education and associating child abuse/neglect cases with home education without supporting data.
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Hello from our home ed family in the UK!
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This sounds wonderful!
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I'm clearly ranting at this point so I'll stop with this... The aim of this bill is to get more kids back in school, there are quotes that say as much. This completely ignores that school is far more harmful for some children than home ed.
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Same here.
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Legislation changes have not reduced serious failures
Reducing funding has not reduced serious failures
Punitive punishment of families who are outside of normative cultural models has not reduced serious failures
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LAs are basically duty bound to think it’s in a child’s best interest to receive education by regular attendance at school. That doesn’t mean they’re right.
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In fact no; this is really worrying. The proposed bill applies the same test to withdrawal from special school and children under CPP/s47 and states the LA must refuse if the LA considers it would be in the child’s best interest to attend school. That’s not the same as would be harmed if they didn’t
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I remember on the west coast of Wales seeing -15°C on the car, and visiting Llanerchaeron with the river Aeron being completely frozen. It was extraordinary and fascinating. Truly memorable.
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Would love to see the background data for this.