MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'education news'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:03 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3298518&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fmps-error-over-home-education-vote.html MPs are debating the Bill that would give the assembly the power to make laws in the field of home education.Tory MP Graham Stuart has tabled an amendment to to block this part of the Bill.Mrs Randerson said: "My colleagues in Westminster subscribed to this amendment in error and will be removing their names from this Tory amendment."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3298518 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:41:00 +0100 3298518 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3298519&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fdont-stifle-home-schooling.html Neil Fernandez explains, here, how the proposals to register children educated at home would subject families to the misguided whims of local authorities.Jeremy Wright, MP for Rugby and Kenilworth, explains why he voted against recently debated the Government’s Children, Schools and Families Bill here.Socialization and Homeschooling: When my husband and I first considered homeschooling our two children, the most common response from friends and family was: “What about socialization?” It’s a legitimate question. Read it here.USA: Homeschooled kids honored at state contest: A local team has managed to put together an award-winning performance during its first year of competition in FIRST Lego League. Homeschooling mum Jennifer saw the competition as a great opportunity for her son an... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3298519 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:58:00 +0100 3298519 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3287938&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fon-news.html School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at homeHome Team Advantage: If your ADHD child struggles in school—and dreads going every day—help him shine by teaching him at home. Read here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3287938 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:02:00 +0100 3287938 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3239752&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fwhats-on-news-today.html Jayne, who educates her three children aged nine, 12 and 15, said: “A lot of us feel the proposed changes are not about benefiting the child but about control. As the current legislation stands we have a very free system and that is a good thing. We want to protect it for people who need to make that choice in the future.” Read more...Plans to force home-schooling families to register their children with local authorities are “not a good use of public money”, according to a member of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board. Read more...Rising numbers of parents are being fined for taking children out of school for cheap term-time holidays. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3239752 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:27:00 +0100 3239752 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3236015&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Four-children-have-been-nationalised.html Gerald Warner reckons that the German homeschoolers' political asylum in America exposes the EU Gulag:Why did the German homeschoolers not seek political asylum in Britain? Because our rulers subscribe to the same tyrannical statist philosophy, is the answer. Every possible obstacle is put in the way of homeschooling parents in Britain.The mentality is that the state – not parents – is the natural controller and shaper of children’s lives and beliefs. When a schoolgirl can be given an abortion without her parents’ knowledge, we know that, while public utilities may have been privatised, children have been nationalised. Read more...ALSO on the news: One of the growing number of children who are being taught at home, for Archie there will be no dreaded Sats exams and when the time is... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3236015 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:57:00 +0100 3236015 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3227949&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fare-home-educated-children-better-off.html Parents who choose to educate their children at home are concerned about Government plans to force inspections on them. Cambridge News speaks to one local family who have shunned the school system. Read it here.Today, 19:30 on BBC One (Cambridgeshire, East only): Dave Hough educates his son at home because he thinks schools are too regimented, offer a poor standard of education and tolerate bullying. The government is planning to introduce much stricter regulations on home schooling with inspections by Ofsted. Dave Hough and many other home educators claim this goes against their right to educate their children in the way they see fit. David Whiteley asks who really is best-placed to ensure the child's right to a good education, the state or the parent? As seen here.Also: Are Home Educator... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3227949 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:59:00 +0100 3227949 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3216782&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fhome-educators-house-swapping-holidays.html 11-year-old Ruaridh finds the whole experience exciting: “Well, if you think that it’s hard, its not,” he said. “You just forget what you did at home and consider it as something new and something different. Home education really does teach you that you can make your own decisions about that, you’ve just really got to think what you want to do; it gives you an opportunity to do anything you want to do.”Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3216782 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:06:00 +0100 3216782 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3212514&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fhomeschooling-family-granted-political.html “This decision finally recognizes that German homeschoolers are a specific social group that is being persecuted by a Western democracy,” said Mike Donnelly, staff attorney and director of international relations for Home School Legal Defense Associaton. “It is embarrassing for Germany, since a Western nation should uphold basic human rights, which include allowing parents to raise and educate their own children. This judge understood the case perfectly, and he called Germany out. We hope this decision will cause Germany to stop persecuting homeschoolers,” he added.Read more here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3212514 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:18:00 +0100 3212514 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3172145&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fnh-home-schoolers-protest.html "New Hampshire home educators protesting proposed government regulations making NH the most difficult state to home school. It is a short account of why these ordinary families came out in frigid New England weather to voice their concerns to the New Hampshire legislature. A suprising mix of people with differing political, religious and social views gathered in a unified stance against their representatives." (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3172145 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:13:00 +0100 3172145 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3163983&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fon-news.html Children's Secretary Ed Balls has defended plans to force home-educating parents to register with their local council as "very light touch indeed" [dismissing] Tory claims that the plans would "alienate and antagonise" home educators. Read more...Here, Lord Lucas shares his "close interest in home education, in the Badman Report, and in the bill now before the Commons, which sets out to demolish people's right to educate their own children" and his difficulties when trying to get answers to his questions.Meantime, in the USA, home schooling soars in Central Florida... the number of kids sitting for lessons in their kitchens and living rooms surged 20% last school year. Read more...While in New Hampshire home school proposal too strictParents portray the legislation as state interference in... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3163983 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:27:00 +0100 3163983 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3159925&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fhome-education-and-children-schools-and.html * The Guardian, Monday 11 January 2010We believe that schedule 1 of the children, schools and families bill represents an unacceptable imposition of state control over families. Although it is aimed at children educated outside the school system, it has implications for all families.Most parents would not make home-based education their first choice; but any family might need it if school seriously failed their child. Currently, this choice is lawfully available to all parents. If enacted, the bill would – for the first time – transfer responsibility for a child's education from the parents to the state. We believe this is a matter which should be of great concern to everyone.A change in the law is unnecessary. Parents are already required by law to provide an education suitable to the... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3159925 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:53:00 +0100 3159925 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3153559&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fhomeschooling-couple-arrested-for-not.html In a move designed to send a message to parents, a New York couple were arrested and ticketed for homeschooling their children and failing to register their them with the school district. Read more here.Watch more on the same story here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3153559 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:42:00 +0100 3153559 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3153560&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fhome-ed-14-yo-offered-place-at.html Cambridge University offers place to home educated 14-year-old - find out more here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3153560 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:25:00 +0100 3153560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3124664&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fitv-anglia-news-home-education.html ITV Anglia News 8/12/09 (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3124664 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:02:00 +0100 3124664 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3115236&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fhome-ed-news-around-world.html USAMom turns to homeschooling to avoid 'experiments' on autistic child The school psychologist wanted to put the child in a room and expose her to known triggers to see how quickly she escalated and what her behavior would be.SwedenCourt endorses 'kidnapping' of 7-year-old - Social services allowed to keep custody of homeschooled child"Any nation that severely restricts the ability of parents to choose alternative forms of education, including home education, in the name of creating national unity, cannot call itself a free nation. Freedom necessarily requires the individual to have the liberty to think differently and believe differently than programs instituted by the current rulers of any nation. Educational freedom is the cornerstone for all freedom of thought and conscience," said Mic... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3115236 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:33:00 +0100 3115236 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3111624&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fprotect-children-but-dont-abandon-civil.html Home educators were incensed that inspectors would be coming into their homes to check on the welfare of their children. In general, I am on the side of those who oppose more state control over our lives. I do not think social services have a role in home education - though I do think it reasonable for the quality of education children receive at home to be monitored. Read more.School dissatisfaction leading to rise in home education... the "legal option" for parents to opt for home education is often not promoted very strongly. Read it here.On Milwaulee, local families choose homeschooling: The object of admiration, suspicion or even derision, home-schoolers -- like all families -- are not easily categorized. There are nearly 20,000 home schooled kids in the state and each family has its ... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3111624 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:35:00 +0100 3111624 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3108507&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fhome-educated-princess.html Lenska said she was born in New Jersey as the youngest of six children. Her education came entirely from homeschooling after the age of 10. She said she did not grow up thinking of herself as a princess. Instead, her family chose to keep its lineage private because Leszczynski was not a popular king and her family found the history painful. Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3108507 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:21:00 +0100 3108507 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3106854&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fkiddicare-news-homeschooling-on-up.html Ann Newstead, spokesperson for Education Otherwise, said: "People are finally becoming aware of the fact that home education is a legal option in this country which is something nobody actually flags up to parents." Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3106854 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:31:00 +0100 3106854 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3105220&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fhome-schooled-pupils-fall-off-radar.html The education of at least 150 children in the Black Country has slipped off the radar. The figures come after Dudley released GCSE results for 101 home-educated children which raised concerns over achievement. Read more...Also on the newsThe Detroit News Wants to Regulate HomeschoolingHigh-Flying Home-Schoolers (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3105220 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:35:00 +0100 3105220 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3097007&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fschools-ministers-response-to-csf.html Schools Minister Diana Johnson said: We’re disappointed the Select Committee’s press release has a negative headline, but...Read the rest here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3097007 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:54:00 +0100 3097007 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3083157&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fhome-education-socialization-not.html Since the re-emergence of the home-school movement in the late 1970s, critics of home-schooling have perpetuated two myths. The first concerns the ability of parents to adequately teach their own children at home; the second is whether home-schooled children will be well-adjusted socially.A new study should cause many critics to rethink their position on the issue of socialization. Not only are home-schoolers actively engaged in civic life, they also are succeeding in all walks of life. Many critics believed, and some parents feared, that home-schoolers would not be able to compete in the job market. But the new study shows home-schoolers are found in a wide variety of professions. (...) this new study clearly demonstrates home-school parents are on the right path.Read it here. (Source: As... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3083157 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:27:00 +0100 3083157 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3082571&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fthoughts-on-home-ed-bill.html Jo Coulter, who educates her child at home, said: “I am absolutely horrified at the thought that in the name of child protection, thousands of children in my country would be subjected to this degree of exposure to strangers, within their own homes. Such treatment I thought was reserved for those suspected of committing a crime. Indeed, why stop at home educating families? Why not extend these measures throughout the land to cover all homes? After all, if school children only spend around seven hours a day in school, this leaves them out of ‘school protection’ for nearly seventeen hours a day, on week days, forty-eight hours at the weekend and many more over holidays. Indeed it is questionable if children are at all safe anywhere, even when they are in school. It is deeply offensive... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3082571 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:57:00 +0100 3082571 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3079513&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fhome-ed-at-portisheads-victorian.html Parents interested in offering their children home schooling will have a chance to talk to people who are already doing so, at Portishead's Victorian Evening. The North Somerset Home Education Group, set up in 2001, is taking a stand at the fair to allow people to find out more about the group.It is made up of families from across North Somerset who have chosen to teach their children at home. The group meets regularly for social activities and to take part in physical activities with the children like gymnastics and ice skating. They also organise educational workshops.Group member Sarah Souter said: "Some parents decide to home educate because they believe it's the best way for the child to learn and grow. Other parents turn to home education when school placements haven't worked out for... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3079513 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:27:00 +0100 3079513 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3063421&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fgloucestershire-woman-opposes-education.html A home education supporter fears legislation could stop many children being taught away from schools. Fiona and her husband Rob are happy to have taught their three children at home. However, they fear the Government's Children, Schools and Families Bill could restrict educational freedom and lead to youngsters not being well educated. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3063421 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:03:00 +0100 3063421 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3039959&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fnow-we-must-undergo-criminal-records.html Parents who teach their own children at home must undergo criminal records checks, say Government education inspectors.Read more Parents and children are speaking out against proposed changes to the home education system which could see youngsters cross-examined for hours on end. A petition was handed over to MP for Lincoln criticising the Badman Review which called for stricter regulation of home schooled children.Read more (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3039959 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:54:00 +0100 3039959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3037053&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fhome-ed-news-from-bristol.html A Bristol mum-of-four, who teaches her children at home, has helped to collect what is set to be the largest number of parliamentary petitions ever recorded and asked her MP Doug Naysmith to take part in the presentation of the 200 petitions, as part of a national campaign to draw attention to the law governing the home education of children. Continues here.And here's Doug Naysmith's reply to my request for him to join the All Party Parliamentary Group on home education and to sign the Early Day Motion 1785:I already belong to more APPGs than I feel I should, as I do not like to belong to a Group unless I have the time to make a useful contribution to it. Also, my initial views on Badman's proposals are not as critical as those expressed in the EDM. I agree with the first part about the ex... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3037053 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:35:00 +0100 3037053 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3017184&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fmp-to-receive-petition-over-home.html YEOVIL MP David Laws will this morning receive a petition from families across his constituency protesting against draft legislation regulating home education. Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3017184 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:56:00 +0100 3017184 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3008309&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Ftesting-times-for-home-educators.html Five months after Graham Badman's report was published, the inclusion of some of his findings in the Queen's speech makes it clear that the system faces changes.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3008309 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:56:00 +0100 3008309 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2999747&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fblake-hannah-on-unschooling.html Barbara says that her method is actually described not as "home-schooling" but "unschooling". "My approach is not linked to a set curriculum," she says. "I used a freestyle method led by my son's interests."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2999747 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:38:00 +0100 2999747 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2995966&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fhome-is-where-school-is.html When he was 15 years old, Peter Heuer and a friend he met at astronomy camp started building a cyclotron, an experimental physics device that smashes atomic particles together.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2995966 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:03:00 +0100 2995966 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2989338&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fhome-ed-art.html ART with a message is on show at an exhibition in Sheffield city centre - created by children educated at home instead of school.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2989338 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:52:00 +0100 2989338 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2977494&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fhome-ed-on-ioi-education-forum.html Tuesday 24 November: This will be a joint event with the Parents Forum at which mother and author Jennie Bristow will argue for home schooling while father and educationalist Toby Marshall will put the case against.Is home schooling defensible? Why can’t parents be free to educate their children in any way they wish? Should the state regulate those who chose to home school? Are their occasions when, for the social good and children’s own good, the parents’ desire to do their own thing should be overruled? For further details or to register, email, or ring Dennis Hayes on 07791200341From here. Podcast may become available here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2977494 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:44:00 +0100 2977494 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2977495&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fhome-ed-news-ofsted.html "Asked by Lord Lucas - To ask Her Majesty's Government why Ofsted has decided to investigate a sample of 15 local authorities about their provision for home educators; which 15 local authorities it will investigate; and how they were chosen. "Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2977495 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:28:00 +0100 2977495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2970361&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fridiculous-rules-for-home-schools.html My six-year-old daughter is educated by me, at home. Are we about to become the state's latest scapegoats?Read more...Here, a reader asks whether home schooling their child will be beneficial. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2970361 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:00 +0100 2970361 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2959005&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fhe-art-project.html ART submitted by home-educated children from Sheffield and across the country, in a bid to share the reasons why they love learning outside school, has been put in the shop window for the public to see. After a month-long exhibition the He-art project will go on a national tour.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2959005 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:41:00 +0100 2959005 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2948435&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fhome-ed-womens-blogging.html Taken from here:Women bloggers inform as well as entertain. Grit, who home-educates her triplets in Britain and writes the excellent, spirited, funny and indescribable gritsday, is a case in point. “I started the blog because I was leading a bizarre life, the sort where fact and fiction blend into each other,” she says. “I was mothering triplets at home in a bomb site when my husband flew in from the West Bank. He changed his trousers and passport, then flew off to Jordan. Six weeks later he’d be in China and I’d be at home making trucks out of cardboard. Through writing I’ve come to terms with situations, and I can honestly say I like where we are now and I feel comfortable. And I’ve learnt that, for us, bizarre is normal.” Grit also blogs specifically to enlighten people ... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2948435 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:53:00 +0100 2948435 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2923408&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fcouple-of-news-items.html Regulating home schooling: Does mother—or nanny—know best?for the overwhelming majority of parents, this is bullying bureaucracy at its worst.Government home ed plans 'deeply sinister'The Government is taking its powers “a step too far” if officials are allowed to question children without their parents present, warns Philip Johnston:“For the first time, local councils will have the power to enter family homes and question young children without the presence of their parents – something even the police are not allowed to do unless the parent is the suspect”. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2923408 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:45:00 +0100 2923408 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2912389&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fevangelical-need-monitoring-eheing.html BBC slurs evangelicals in home school debateSome evangelical parents need monitoring by the state because they may ‘intimidate’ their children with ideas about God, sin and hell, a BBC radio host has said.Tough lesson for home-educatorsKarl Meyer, from Cambridge Home Educating Families (Chef), said it was "a bizarre logic" to suggest that a parent who wanted to spend time with his or her child was someone to be questioned and queried. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2912389 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:09:00 +0100 2912389 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2908831&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fwhats-on-news.html If home-schooling is good for our children it is for us to sayHow much more evidence does the Government need before the penny drops: that excessive interference from the centre is causing irreparable damage to our society?And in one of the many comments:"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler; the Ralph Manheim translation published by Houghton- Mifflin, 1943. pg 403.St Albans couple's worry over changes to home education The couple worry the intrusion and shift of power from them to the local authority would have a massive impact on their children... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2908831 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:17:00 +0100 2908831 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2905056&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fwhat-it-feels-like-to-be-homeschooled.html Alex Dowty, a student at Oxford, describes his unusual education here.No lesson plans? No problem! La Plata family finds unschooling a perfect fit. Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2905056 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:13:00 +0100 2905056 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2901791&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Ftes-repeating-unfounded-allegations.html here. If you read the article, make sure to read comments.Elsewhere:Is Unschooling a Better Kind of School?Homeschooling can be a valid option (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2901791 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:57:00 +0100 2901791 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2894702&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fhome-educators-mass-lobby-of-parliament.html From here: [Two days ago,] over 450 Home Educators and many supporters lobbied parliament today to protest against the Review of Elective Home Education chaired by Graham Badman. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2894702 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:35:00 +0100 2894702 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2886657&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fhome-educators-slam-government-response.html The government's response to Graham Badman's review of elective home education "is not worth the paper it's typed on" according to home education charity Education Otherwise.Read it here.The Children’s Secretary gave the green light for youngsters to only have to attend school for certain lessons if their parents agreed to ensure they received the rest of their education at home.Read more (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2886657 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:33:00 +0100 2886657 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2879740&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fsuitable-and-efficient.html The government is to commission a review into what a "suitable" and "efficient" education means for home educated children in England. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2879740 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:47:00 +0100 2879740 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871933&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Ffrench-police-grabs-home-ed-kids-on.html Four children of a family that fled Germany to avoid further fines for homeschooling have been snatched from their home in France by police and accused of "being alone," according to a report today on the ongoing war against home education across the Continent. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871933 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:12:00 +0100 2871933 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865857&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fhome-ed-quality-of-life.html 'Ideologically I've been behind home education since before I had kids, but obviously you don't know in advance whether you're going to go for it," says Léan. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865857 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:55:00 +0100 2865857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2862680&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Flessons-al-fresco-for-epsom-students.html While most children were cooped up in their classrooms a group of youngsters enjoyed a picnic in the fresh air in glorious sun without being accused of truanting. - from here.Roman Legions and Celtic warriors in Chard: A history lesson came to life when legionary Valerius Genialis and Corius the Briton visited students from the Home Learning Centre to demonstrate what life was like nearly 2000 years ago. Throughout the morning, the home-educated youngsters heard what life was like as an Iron Age Briton, how the Romans really invaded and discussed how they would react to the invasion. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2862680 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:38:00 +0100 2862680 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2858739&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Feducation-packs-for-home-educators.html Country parks in South Somerset will launch National Curriculum-linked education packs for use by schools, youth groups and home educators wanting to go further than the traditional textbook approach. The aim is to get children learning outside of the classroom. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2858739 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:21:00 +0100 2858739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2857543&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fletter-to-independent.html The Government wants parents, at the earliest opportunity, to hand all child-rearing responsibility to the authorities. Enclosed with each child benefit award is a leaflet about childcare; nurseries can accept babies from the age of six weeks; our school starting age is the lowest in Europe, and our working hours are the longest.House prices are such that two average incomes are needed to buy even a modest property. Where does that leave our children? On top of this, if you do decide to take responsibility and look after your own children, you are seen as an anachronism; there are no stop-at-home mums on CBeebies, though every other walk of life is represented.Worse, if you take responsibility to home-school your children rather than send them to state school for a tick-box education, a go... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2857543 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:54:00 +0100 2857543 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2851986&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fhey-badman-leave-our-kids-alone.html Home educators are outraged at Graham Badman's recommendations to impose new regulations on them. Nancy Rowntree finds out why they feel victimised - here.And the guidelines for LAs on elective home education seem to be back - here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2851986 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:17:00 +0100 2851986 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2846565&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-schooling-best-for-us.html HOME school families from across the Island gathered in Newport to raise concerns about a national review. Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2846565 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:23:00 +0100 2846565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2842720&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-ed-newsround_29.html A group of parents who teach their children at home claim the school system is broken and lets children down. Read more...Home educating parents are not ‘refusing to send their child to school’. The law makes parents responsible for providing an education suitable to the age, ability, aptitude and any special educational needs of the child by attendance at school...or otherwise. We are part of the ‘otherwise’. Home education has equal status in law. Read it here.Jamaica: Tricia and Julian made the decision a year ago to pull their children out of conventional schooling and educate them at home. Ten months later, they have no regrets and are pleased with the progress their offspring are making. Check it out here.Australia: Kerri isn't sending her children back to school, despite thr... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2842720 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:49:00 +0100 2842720 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2839121&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-educated-young-scientist.html Wilf Bond and his innovative apple picking machine are the stars of a children’s television programme.Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2839121 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:55:00 +0100 2839121 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2855713&cid=t_176583_115_f&fid=34678&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.catscanman.net%2Fblog%2F2009%2F09%2Fnchrh-draft-bill%2F … To overcome the acute shortage and uneven distribution of human resources in public health delivery system, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare aims at overhauling the current regulatory framework. Toward this end, it is proposed to set up a National Council for Human Resources in Health as an overarching regulatory body to achieve the objective of enhancing the supply of skilled personnel in the health sector. The general public is invited to go through the report of the Task Force and the draft bill and sent their comments / observations on the suggested provisions by the 15th October, 2009. … Related Post: Support the NCHRH Bill (Source: scan man's notes) scan man's notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2855713 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:46:50 +0100 2855713 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2834399&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-ed-ongoing-war-with-authorities.html A judge in Germany has left a teen in the custody of his parents – for now – a big win in their ongoing war with authorities over the legitimacy of home education practices. (...)One of the first acts by Adolf Hitler when he moved into power was to create the governmental Ministry of Education and give it control of all schools and school-related issues. In 1937, the dictator said,"The youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but wil... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2834399 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:32:00 +0100 2834399 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2834400&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Ffuture-trends-homeschooling-will.html The kind of society Americans know and support cannot continue, said James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Long Emergency", a book about the issues future generations will face regarding the oil crisis, global warming and living in suburbia. (...) In the future, there will no longer be centralized school districts, or as Kunstler calls them, "pupil sheds." Homeschooling will replace public schools, he noted. From here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2834400 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:13:00 +0100 2834400 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2834401&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-education-newsround.html Brits tighten screws on home schoolingFamilies protest against proposed changes to home schooling: FAMILIES staged a protest in Stratford Park, Stroud against proposed Government reforms which they fear would make home education too similar to school. Parents and children from across Gloucestershire enjoyed a picnic and covered the bandstand in messages in opposition to Graham Badman’s independent review of home education. Read it here.What happened next with the 7 year old boy snatched from plane in Sweden 3 months ago because the parents wanted to home school him? See here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2834401 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:26:00 +0100 2834401 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2824369&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-education-is-best-answer-for-some.html NOT many parents would take on the challenge of home educating their children, but Mick and partner Sylv felt they had no choice. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2824369 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:30:00 +0100 2824369 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2812529&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-ed-newsround.html Home-schooling must be brought under Government control, says a Government-backed report. More here.Laignee is the only home-schooled student in this year's freshman class, and just one of 25 who applied. Read it here.Alaska — If Alaska parents want to home-school their child, no paperwork needs to be filed, no phone call made. No one need be told. As for the student, no specific subjects need to be studied, no number of hours need be logged behind a desk, no tests taken. Should Alaska join the ranks of other states by tightening its home-schooling laws? Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2812529 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:00:00 +0100 2812529 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2812530&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fand-couple-more-news-items.html Graham Badman, author of the government review into home education, has made an urgent request to councils in a bid to reinforce his report with extra evidence. In a letter sent out to directors of children's services last week, Badman said: "I would like to strengthen my statistical evidence in advance of the select committee hearing so that it is more extensive and statistically... Read it here.Home educators today reacted in astonishment to news that the covering letter from DCSF admits that the evidence on which the 28 recomendations were based was a "small sample" and that they needed to show "more statistically rigorous" information to the Inquiry. Results from Freedom of Information requests has shown that only 25 out of 152 local authorities responded to the earlier request. More h... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2812530 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:50:00 +0100 2812530 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2807806&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fbad-regulations-for-home-educators.html Graham Badman asks local authorities to identify the number of home educated children who currently fall into categories as stated in the attached letter by 1 October 2009.Other news:How Much Should Government Regulate Home Schooling?Sweden—the Next Germany for Homeschoolers? (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2807806 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:56:00 +0100 2807806 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2807807&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fnot-back-to-school-picnic-news.html Picnics celebrate home education: a nationwide event has been staged by the supporters of home education to highlight its benefits. Around 40 picnics were held in locations across England, including Kent, Sussex and Surrey. Read it here.BRISTOL families who educate their children at home met for a picnic yesterday as part of a nationwide campaign to challenge people's views of home schooling. More here.OXFORD home schooled children and their parents came to the centre to protest against a Government review they said threatens to burst their bubble. Read it here.On BBC Radio Oxford there's an interview with a local home edder and her teenage daughter - listen here (29mns on).CAMBRIDGESHIRE: Hundreds of children are educated 'otherwise than at school' be it in a structured school at home set... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2807807 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:29:00 +0100 2807807 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2800620&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fsouth-devons-home-educators-will-be.html SOUTH Devon's 'home educators' will be joining more than 30 other picnic protests across the country as they blow bubbles and talk to anyone who wants to know more about home education. There are around 100 families in the Teignmouth, Totnes and Torbay areas who educate their youngsters outside the mainstream schooling system.Read it here. adverts.addToArray("sky", "120x600,160x600"); London: Parents today attacked government plans to impose new controls on home schooling. Families were handing out leaflets and taking part in street theatre to "spread the message" about learning outside the education system. The event coincides with International Freedom in Education Day, which promotes learning at home.Protest organiser Elizabeth Lil, who... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2800620 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:21:00 +0100 2800620 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796685&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-ed-protests-and-growing-numbers.html As protesters gather in London today to campaign against tighter restrictions on home schooling, our writer, educated in a council house with her seven siblings, gives a learned riposte to those who doubt its benefits.Read it here.Homeschooling numbers growing in Gaston: Will, Ian and Neal Kirkpatrick get up each morning and get ready for school. Instead of hopping on a school bus bound for public school, they head to the dining room table for their home school lessons.Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796685 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:16:00 +0100 2796685 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2793361&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-ed-whats-on-news.html After finishing his three-year course, he set up his own business at the age of 22 – at the same time establishing Shed 2 Studios with a group of fellow graduates. His achievement is all the more remarkable for the fact that Mr Radford has dyslexia and from the age of 13 was taught at home.Read it here.A protest against proposed changes to home schooling across Britain will take at Stratford Park, Stroud on Wednesday, September 16. Read more here.With the high street full of Back to School advertising, home educating families in Norfolk are joining together for “Not Back to School” picnics in Norwich and King's Lynn.Read it here. West End: Parents who have chosen to take their children out of mainstream education are set to hold a “not back to school picnic” in Paddington Street ... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2793361 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:49:00 +0100 2793361 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2793362&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fprotest-at-inspections-for-children.html Thousands of parents are prepared to go to court over plans to limit home schooling.Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2793362 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:11:00 +0100 2793362 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2793363&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-education-news-in-india.html Jaipur: John Holt is the strongest advocate of unschooling or homeschooling. The term homeschooling is used to describe all those arrangements and methods of education that are not pursued for institutionalized learning. In other words children receive education in a family environment based on their interests and parents take an active part in facilitating activities and experiences conducive to learning.Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2793363 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:11:00 +0100 2793363 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2790378&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fbnp-will-oppose-interference-in-home.html The British National Party has come out firmly against Government proposals to interfere in the rights of parents who home educate their children.Read more here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2790378 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:39:00 +0100 2790378 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2789146&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Ffor-unschooled-everywhere-is-classroom.html Unschooling allows children to follow their passions and learn at their own pace.A byproduct of home-schooling, unschooling incorporates every facet of life into the education process, allowing children to follow their passions and learn at their own pace, year-round. And it assumes an outing at the park can be just as valuable a teaching resource as Hooked on Phonics."Interest in unschooling has skyrocketed," said Pat Farenga, president of Holt Associates, a organization that carries on John Holt's work.Read more here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2789146 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:32:00 +0100 2789146 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2789147&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fits-not-back-to-school-for-all.html Across the country picnics are being organised for families to meet with old friends and make new ones, dispelling the myth that home educated children do not get a chance to socialise.Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2789147 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:20:00 +0100 2789147 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2786220&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-education-news.html What happens when your child doesn't get into the secondary school of your choice? Sarah Freeman reports on a group of Bradford parents who decided to start their own.Read it here.Want to help a student with a school phobia? Suggest home education. "Clearly, the assumption that school-phobia can only be treated in school is fallacious; primary socialisation and learning are the domain of the family, and it is primarily there that children learn the necessary skills to thrive in adult life."Read it here.Out of the classroom and into the living room Read it here (pg 12-13)Katharine Jackson decided it would be best for Michael Jackson’s children to continue their home education and stay out of the public eye.From here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2786220 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:28:00 +0100 2786220 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2782250&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Ferykah-badu-homeschooled-her-son.html Erykah Badu, the 38-year-old singer says she felt compelled to homeschool son Seven Sirius, 11 ½, through kindergarten and first-grade. “I wanted to give [him] special attention academically, to give him an advantage,” she said.The results? Seven “learned how to solve problems in a nontraditional way” which has served him well now that he is enrolled in a traditional school. Source: here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2782250 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:21:00 +0100 2782250 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2774836&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-education-on-news.html "What is it like going back to school if you don´t actually go to school? Our reporter meets 2 families who homeschool..."Listen here (fast forward to 2h52mns - last 5 mns of the programme) (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2774836 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:01:00 +0100 2774836 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2774837&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhome-learning-picnic-in-evesham.html "A NOT Back to School Picnic for home learners and their families is taking place in Crown Meadow, Evesham, next Wednesday, September 16 from 11am."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2774837 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:04:00 +0100 2774837 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2772670&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Five-never-been-to-school.html Flora has never been to school. But last week she opened her first ever exam results - and is now the proud possessor of several grades in GCSE maths and English.Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2772670 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:20:00 +0100 2772670 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2770213&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fhomeschooling-natural-learning-key-to.html "(...) home education is natural learning. It allows people to work from strengths, free of unnecessary blocks to learning. With a wholesome, supportive atmosphere, the students can explore subjects with open minds, free of worry that short-circuits the brain's natural learning process."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2770213 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:48:00 +0100 2770213 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2768795&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fbest-of-both-worlds.html "The relationship between state schools and the home education community can be tense, but a collaborative venture providing a bridge between the two systems is helping to overcome mutual suspicion."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2768795 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:43:00 +0100 2768795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2766225&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fi-learn-at-home.html "Press Packer Samuel has been taught at home since he was seven. Find out what he thinks about being home schooled..." here (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2766225 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:41:00 +0100 2766225 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2766226&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fparents-home-school-fears.html "Thousands of Leicestershire children start back at school today – but for others it is just another day at home. Scores of youngsters will not need to worry about making new friends in the playground, fitting into a new uniform or getting used to a new teacher because they are educated by their parents."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2766226 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:39:00 +0100 2766226 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2766227&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fincrease-in-home-education-places.html "The number of children in Gloucestershire who are registered as home educated has risen this year by more than 50%."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2766227 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:38:00 +0100 2766227 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2766228&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Ffrom-home-schooling-to-unschooling.html A byproduct of home schooling, unschooling incorporates every facet of a child's life into the education process, allowing a child to follow his passions and learn at his own pace, year-round.Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2766228 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:42:00 +0100 2766228 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2762091&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fstroud-protest-over-home-education.html "Bubble-blowing families will have a serious message for the Government when they picnic in the park to object about suggested restrictions on home education."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2762091 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:43:00 +0100 2762091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2748104&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fhome-educated-girl-lands-11-top-gcses.html A girl who has been educated at home for the bulk of her life has achieved 11 A* GCSEs and an A grade A-level two years early.Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2748104 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:49:00 +0100 2748104 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2748105&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fhome-educated-aspies-on-news.html "United by a love of dogs and photography two autistic siblings have worked together to make a special canine calendar. The siblings, who both have Asperger's syndrome, are home-schooled by their mother, who explained: "As part of their home education I believe it is important to do an annual project to raise funds and awareness for a good cause."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2748105 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:45:00 +0100 2748105 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2745602&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fhomeschooling-outstanding-results-on.html "There is new research showing that the average home-schooler who takes standardized achievement tests is doing very well. (...) In a sentence, home-schooling is a recipe for academic success."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2745602 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:11:00 +0100 2745602 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2744262&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fhomeschooling-lessons-learned.html "When Denise started home schooling her two children five years ago, she thought there was a right way to do it and that she had to be extremely organized and scheduled. “That lasted a whole six weeks,” Denise said with a laugh. It took that long for it to sink in with Denise that there was no single right way to home school. Now, with her son in ninth grade and her daughter in fifth, she is comfortable with the relaxed style of school her family has adopted."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2744262 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:26:00 +0100 2744262 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2744263&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fstate-could-take-custody-of-teen.html The real issue is the right of parents to control the upbringing of their childrenA critical hearing is scheduled in Germany in that nations' war against homeschoolers to determine whether a family can continue to control the education of its high-performing son, 14.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2744263 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:56:00 +0100 2744263 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2741545&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fcourt-orders-home-schooled-girl-into.html U.S.A. - The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has asked a New Hampshire court to reconsider its decision to order a 10-year-old home-schooled girl into public school.Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2741545 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:01:00 +0100 2741545 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2737963&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fis-summer-bad-for-your-childs-brain.html What about the rest of the year?It was the summer between my son's reception year and year one at primary that set us on the path to Home Education. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2737963 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:17:00 +0100 2737963 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2727355&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fself-taught-aspie-now-at-cambridge.html Alex Goodenough, an Asperger’s sufferer who taught himself at home after his local school rejected him because of his condition, has won a place at Cambridge. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2727355 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:52:00 +0100 2727355 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2727356&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Ffamilys-whiz-kids-are-home-schooled.html "We taught our children how to learn. We taught them to love learning by making it fun and interesting. Then they knew they could learn anything."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2727356 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:38:00 +0100 2727356 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2725194&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fhomeschooling-mom-thinks-big.html We started homeschooling over the summer, and so far it is working beautifully. Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2725194 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:31:00 +0100 2725194 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2716160&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fresisting-illegal-government-requests.html A family in Kent County, Michigan had their ability to homeschool questioned by their local school district.More here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2716160 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:13:00 +0100 2716160 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2712304&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fhomeschooling-news_19.html Home-Schooled Student Receives National Honor: The National Society of High School Scholars has announced that home-schooled student Ryan D. Turnewitsch, of St. Clairsville, has been recognized for superior academic achievement and selected for membership.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2712304 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:59:00 +0100 2712304 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2703933&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Finspecting-home-educators-is-fair.html By Ravi Chandiramani, EditorGraham Badman's review of home education has created an unrivalled storm of protest on CYP Now's online discussion forums in the past couple of months. Scores of parents are livid at his proposals.Unfortunately for them, the government has said it will implement these in full. Mindful however of the army of home educators opposed to interference from the state, the Department for Children, Schools and Families has put them out to a public consultation first.Badman's recommendations would mean parents who choose to educate their children from home become regulated like never before. Chief among the proposals are a compulsory registration scheme; annual statements outlining parents' educational approach and objectives for the coming year; and the right for local a... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2703933 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:17:00 +0100 2703933 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2702470&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Feconomist-home-schooling-on-rise.html The Allens are home-schoolers. Instead of sending their children to a public or private school, they teach them at home. They are far from alone. A generation ago, homeschooling was rare and, in many states, illegal. Now, according to the Department of Education, there are roughly 1.5 million home-schooled students in the United States, a number that has doubled in a decade. That is about 3percent of the school-age population. The National Home Education Research Institute puts the number even higher, at between 1.8 million and 2.5 million.More here... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2702470 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:39:00 +0100 2702470 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2699821&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fwe-dont-need-no-state-education.html Parents who educate their children at home are meeting in Bradford to sing “we don’t need no state education, we don’t need no tougher controls”.Their cover of Pink Floyd’s 1979 hit, Another Brick in the Wall, is being recorded in protest at recommendations made in a report advising closer monitoring of home-taught children. Read more...Home Schooling: Pros & ConsSherrie Ferrari is mom to 4 girls. She's been home schooling them for 5 years, teaching them about literature, computer skills, even music. Sherrie says, "For me, the biggest thing initially was just ‘cause I wanted to spend more time with them." But she soon noticed other benefits too: test scores skyrocketed.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2699821 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:25:00 +0100 2699821 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2699823&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2F4th-annual-home-education-fair.html The Home Education Fair is a terrific opportunity to find out all about home education: how it works, what researchers say, find a home education group near you, young people who were home educated and hear about the imminent government plans to limit your freedoms with regard to education and how to help fight this.Saturday 19 September 1-5pmWestbourne Grove Church, Westbourne Grove, London W11. (corner of Ledbury Road and Westbourne Grove) 5-10 minutes walk from Notting Hill (Central, Circle) Entrance: FreeThere will be talks by academics in the field of home education about its theory and practice as well as talks about the imminent government plans to limit freedoms with regard to education. There will also be workshops on various areas of home education and a panel of young adults who... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2699823 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:39:00 +0100 2699823 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2691718&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fhomeschooling-study.html A study has found that home educated children score well above mainstream school kids.Read the news here, or he report here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2691718 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:01:00 +0100 2691718 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2688849&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Ftotalitarian-home-education-plans.html ... drive families north to Scotland: Home schooling advisers say they are being swamped by inquiries from parents who want to move to Scotland.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2688849 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:03:00 +0100 2688849 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2683971&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fhomeschooling-news.html With back-to-school season in full swing, many parents are reflecting on the educational choices they are making. Although the vast majority of parents still send their children to public schools, 10% to 12% of parents choose private education. One part of private education is the estimated 2 million children who are home-schooled, accounting for at least 3% of the school-age population. More here...For more kids, home is where the school is: numbers have steadily increased over the course of the past 5 years ... as more parents and guardians decide to keep their children home for the academic grind.More here... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2683971 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:48:00 +0100 2683971 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2682087&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fwhy-im-not-sending-my-daughter-to.html I have chosen to home educate my child because she deserves a better chance than I believe the current system can offer her.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2682087 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:33:00 +0100 2682087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2682088&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Ftrue-worth-of-home-schooling.html I read Simon Webb's Comment ("We must get tough on home schooling", 30 July) with interest. Most home-educating families find that home education is a journey which we take alongside each individual child. Some find that a formal approach works best for their child, others an entirely hands-off approach. Many of us find a middle road. One thing that most of us would say is that children do learn best by teaching themselves. All they require is a loving adult to answer questions, provide information and experiences and (sometimes) to show them how to do things. And, yes, it can take some children longer than others to master reading, but that is true of school children, and at least HE kids aren't made to feel like idiots if they don't master a sunject to a government-set target. I'm surpri... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2682088 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:30:00 +0100 2682088 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2682090&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fhomeschool-news.html While the freedom to home-school in America continues to expand, the opposite is true in Europe.Read more...The Allens are home-schoolers. Instead of sending their children to a public (non-fee-paying) or private school, they teach them at home. They are far from alone.Read more...In this economic test, some private school parents eyeing their investment in education are considering new sacrifices and a surprising alternative: home school.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2682090 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:10:00 +0100 2682090 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2678810&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fbrighton-families-stand-up-for-home.html Shoppers in Brighton were greeted by a colourful sight as children filled the streets with bubbles as part of a protest. Boys and girls of different ages, many wearing T-shirts saying “The world is my classroom and life is my curriculum”, took part in the “flash mob” event to protest at proposals by the Department for Children, Schools and Families which would change the way they learn.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2678810 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:53:00 +0100 2678810 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2667630&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fschoolhouse-press-release.html Ms Preuss, spokes person for Scotland's national home education support organisation, said:"It will be a sad day for English citizens if they are to be persecuted for choosing to care for and educate their own children in accordance with a long established legal right. If MPs do not reject these draconian proposals when they come before the UK Parliament, Schoolhouse anticipates an influx of home educating refugees from south of the border. England's loss will be Scotland's gain as we have plenty of room for well educated, motivated and enterprising people who place the same high value on freedom that we do."Read it here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2667630 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:10:00 +0100 2667630 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2664086&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fsave-money-homeschooling.html In Australia, Cassandra has become something of an expert in finding ways to save while raising her seven children. She and husband Joe, 35, who together own a real-estate agency, save some money by not needing day care, with Mrs Parker home-schooling all her children. Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2664086 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:51:00 +0100 2664086 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2664087&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Flouisiana-parents-opting-to-home-school.html As schoolchildren throughout the Shreveport-Bossier City area return to classes in August, so too will Michael and Paula Bottoms' children. Their learning, however, will take place from home. And the Bottoms aren't alone. Hundreds of families home-school in northwest Louisiana.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2664087 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:27:00 +0100 2664087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2662615&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fin-governments-hands.html Last week, British homeschoolers were alarmed to find that the British Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families accept a report on British education created by Graham Badman, a former Managing Director of Children, Families and Education in the County of Kent.The report recommended that the national government forcibly register all children that are not attending class in state schools and also suggested a mandate that homeschools be further regulated. Additionally, it was recommended that the state assume the power to enter the private homes of homeschooled children in order to make sure that government strictures are being observed.The underlying source by which Badman claims legitimacy for his report is the UNCRC. According to the Home School Legal Defense Association here ... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2662615 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:49:00 +0100 2662615 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2660882&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fhome-ed-kids-challenge-badman-review.html Home educated children have set up their own youth council to challenge the recent findings of Graham Badman's review into home education.Chloe Watson, HEYC chair said: "The DCSF have a duty in law to listen to children's opinions on matters which concern them, yet no effort has been made to secure a representative opinion from home educated children in this consultation. Those children who have been consulted have often been dismissed as being a mouthpiece for their parents."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2660882 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:54:00 +0100 2660882 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2660883&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fshould-home-educators-face-greater.html Two parents put forward contrasting views on home education plans.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2660883 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:52:00 +0100 2660883 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2657856&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fmother-who-set-up-new-school-for-her.html "Eighteen months ago, Freddie Buckner's schooldays were often spent washing up mugs in the staff room after being excluded from mainstream lessons for lashing out at teachers and his fellow pupils. The eight-year-old's complex behavioural needs, including autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia, meant that teaching him alongside other children in mainstream schools was deemed impossible. So the search began to find him a suitable school."More here... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2657856 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:50:00 +0100 2657856 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2657857&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fhome-educators-encouraging.html A NOTTS family is encouraging others to get involved in local conservation projects. The Martin family, from Ollerton, near Newark, Gracie, 11, Harvey, nine and Roscoe, seven, all have home schooling.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2657857 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:39:00 +0100 2657857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2653956&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fsimon-webb-we-must-get-tough-on-home.html ... says Simon Webb:"Most people, if asked about home education, would probably picture a child being tutored at home by his parents; perhaps working at the kitchen table rather than sitting in a classroom. This was indeed the case with my own daughter whom I have taught since she was a baby. Sadly, this image is very much the exception in British home education."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2653956 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:29:00 +0100 2653956 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2649215&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fforced-to-teach-their-children.html "A group of parents claim there are so few pupil places at Bradford’s secondary schools that they have been forced to teach their children themselves."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2649215 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:25:00 +0100 2649215 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2649216&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fballs-defends-badman.html Children's Secretary Ed Balls has felt the need to defend a review of home education in England following messages people have sent him.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2649216 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:34:00 +0100 2649216 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2645490&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fdo-parents-have-right-to-educate.html News from the U.S.A.: "A crucial question will soon face parents if present United Nations initiatives gain acceptance in the United States: Who inherently has the right to educate your child, the state or the parent?"More here... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2645490 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:52:00 +0100 2645490 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2645492&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fbradford-parents-choose-to-teach.html "Having been denied their choice of school, some angry parents in Bradford have decided to teach their children themselves."Watch the video clip here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2645492 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:37:00 +0100 2645492 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2645493&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fhome-education-now-legal-in-catalonia.html Home educating families in Catalonia have a big reason to celebrate. As from last week, due to a few references in The Catalonia Education Act, home education is no longer ilegal!As seen here and here. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2645493 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:03:00 +0100 2645493 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2639689&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fhomeschooling-in-south-africa.html The story of how the freedom to home-school was established in that country is not well known. Leendert Van Oostrom said he and his wife decided to home-school in the waning years of the old system, "when it was strictly verboten, and home-schoolers were prosecuted and stuck in jail."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2639689 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:20:00 +0100 2639689 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2634602&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fhome-education-news.html "Prompted partly by complaints from angry home educators , the committee will examine how the government conducted the review and its related consultations. They will also scrutinise the recommendations made by the review."More here..."The Children, Schools and Families Committee is to undertake a short inquiry into the recent review of elective home education commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. The Committee invites written submissions on: • the conduct of the review and related consultations (e.g. the constitution of the review team; the scope of the terms of reference for the review; and the nature of the consultation documents).• the recommendations made by the review on elective home education."More here..."... a striking testimony to the failings of... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2634602 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:05:00 +0100 2634602 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2616825&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Ffor-many-benefits-flow-in-schooling-at.html "As politicians argue over school league tables and teaching standards, parents are increasingly taking their children out of the school system."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2616825 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:22:00 +0100 2616825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2606173&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Finspection-of-homeschooling.html "Education is first and foremost the duty of the parent rather than the state.... Parents may delegate this educational responsibility to those whom they trust, but this delegation in no wise removes their responsibility for the education of their children.In other words, Badman has his priorities reversed. It is not that homeschoolers should submit to education authorities - it is that, if parents choose to send their children to a collective school, rather than educate them at home, the school must still educate them according to the wishes and direction of the parents. The teacher is in loco parentis."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2606173 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:23:00 +0100 2606173 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2591647&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fhome-education-learning-platform.html Businessman launches new ‘school in a box’"A BUSINESSMAN is so passionate about modernising education he’s spent ten years and millions of pounds creating an online “school in a box” for parents and children.The Help – Home Education Learning Platform – is for youngsters who have been expelled from school, are off due to long-term sickness, or for parents who choose to educate their children at home."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2591647 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:09:00 +0100 2591647 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2584344&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fidle-parent-home-education.html "It's time to teach the meddlers a thing or two about home education."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2584344 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:49:00 +0100 2584344 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2517372&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fhome-education-news_26.html This clampdown on home education doesn't help childrenFundamental changes to the law affecting the rights and the freedom of about 80,000 children may be sneaked into a bill going through parliament, after the review into home education by Graham Badman (Report to crack down on home schooling, 6 June).The parenting policeParents are hitting back at plans for what they believe are Big Brother-style powers to inspect home schooling."What [Graham] Badman recommends policing is not simply home education but parenting. Under this government parents are considered unfit unless checked and approved by an ever growing list of 'professionals'.""So what has happened to the basic right of every citizen in this country to be assumed innocent of a crime unless proven otherwise? Under these new proposal... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2517372 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:13:00 +0100 2517372 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512532&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fhome-education-on-news_24.html Parents condemn plans for councils to 'police' home educationThere are about 750 children in Kent who are currently educated at home. Alexander Roarke, a Kent-based trustee of the charity Education Otherwise, said: "We reject the disproportionate and unreasonable recommendations set out in this report for compulsory registration and invasive monitoring. Someone from the local authority is now allowed to enter my home, take my children and interview them without me being present...that is a power that only the police have."Parents' anger at home education recommendations growsParents who educate their children at home are up in arms over the recommendations of the government-commissioned review into home education in England. Home educators are using CYP Now 's forums to lobby the governmen... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512532 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:57:00 +0100 2512532 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512534&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fbringing-olympics-back-home.html Nearly 50 children aged from four to 15 took part in the sports day organised by the Home Education Centre, which provides group activities for home-educated children.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512534 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:08:00 +0100 2512534 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512536&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Ftreehouse-welcomes-governments-review.html TreeHouse, the national charity for autism education, welcomes the acknowledgement within the government’s review of home education that children with special educational needs (SEN) are disproportionately represented among the population of children who are educated at home.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512536 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:33:00 +0100 2512536 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512537&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fhome-education-on-news_18.html Hey parents, leave those kids alone! Home education is not better than school, says CAROL SARLERLessons to be learned from home schoolingCUMBRIAN parents who educate their children at home could face inspections under new plans to ensure youngsters do not fall through the net. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512537 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:39:00 +0100 2512537 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512540&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fco-operative-backs-homes-education.html THE Home Education Centre in Chard has received a £745 boost from the Co-operative’s community fund. The money will be used to buy craft tables and chairs for the centre and the group’s chairman, Karen Turner, is delighted at the donation.“We provide support for home-educated children and their parents, giving them access to group learning and allowing them to develop friendships and a sense of community. We are very grateful to the Co-op for supporting our work and allowing us to buy this much-needed equipment.” Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512540 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:03:00 +0100 2512540 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512541&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fhome-education-news_14.html Home schooling vs. the stateThis Labour government has been especially bad at dealing with difference, and its latest stance against home schooling is indicative of this lack of tolerance and understanding.Parents who home educate children to be forced to registerFiona Nicholson, of support group Education Otherwise, said: "If they introduce a registration system, it would completely shift the balance of power. The state is coming into family life and trying to regulate it. It is an extraordinary invasion of the family."You can't hear the jackboots, but this is still oppressionPrivate life, the family home, freedom of conscience and action, have never been so menaced. But... we don't see it for what it is. It is time we did.There's no education like home schoolingInstead of hedging in home... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512541 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:04:00 +0100 2512541 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473921&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fhome-education-on-news.html Parents resort to home education because state schools betray their wishes Eric Hester: "The Government's intention to regulate – in effect, nationalise – home education is spiteful, dictatorial and simply anti-educational. There is no evidence that home-educated children do worse than those in schools. To suggest that home education might lead to abuse ill becomes a Government at a time when a state-regulated nursery is being investigated over horrific crimes."Home schooling to be monitored by govt database?Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said: "The whole purpose of home education, of course, is that people want to keep their children out of the clutches of the state and they should be allowed to do so if they want in a free country."Even from the edge of the... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473921 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:06:00 +0100 2473921 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473922&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fhome-education-news_12.html Home education clampdown 'an infringement of civil liberties'Parents could be banned from educating children at home in a move branded a "very bad day for civil liberties".A home educated teenager gives her viewI only did my first year in primary school, and all my memories of it are horrible! I used to get really badly bullied all the time.Voice welcomes home education reviewVoice: the union for education professionals has welcomed news that the review of home education in England is recommending a national registration scheme.Parents should educate children as they wishEven in its current decrepit state, the Government has not lost its unappealing appetite for control. ... it arrogantly assumes that state functionaries are better qualified than parents to decide what is right for their c... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473922 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:12:00 +0100 2473922 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469831&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fschools-minister-defends-home-education.html The new junior schools minister, Diana Johnson, has defended the government's stance on home education in her first debate in Parliament since taking up the post.She refuted claims made by Mark Field, MP for Westminster, who warned that the government is trying to destroy home education by over-regulating parents.Field said that the Department for Children, Schools and Families review of home education, which is being led by Graham Badman, could skew the balance between civil liberties and state intervention.He said: "The ability to be free from an all-knowing, all-seeing state's ideas of education, welfare and standards forms the fundamental appeal for many of those who choose home education for their children. Any attempt to alter what is very much a matter of balance would undermine the... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469831 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:17:00 +0100 2469831 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469832&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fgive-us-respect-not-suspicion.html "There are no plans to change parents' well-established rights to educate their children at home," says the government.Yet it has clearly decided that long-standing arrangements in England surrounding home education require closer attention.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469832 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:08:00 +0100 2469832 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464341&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fgovernment-home-school-report-due.html "There are concerns that a Government review due to report this week could recommend new measures to monitor home-schooling families."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2464341 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:25:00 +0100 2464341 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464342&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fattempt-to-make-vaccinations-compulsory.html ...is another real step towards the state controlling everyone. What will be the next step, requiring that people are sterilized after x number of children? Is it not time that the medical profession realized their "clients" are often intelligent people who have a right to make informed decisions? If it meant my child wasn't to get a place at school, so be it, home education is often a better bet anyway, but I would like to see what the European court of human rights thinks.From a letter to the Guardian (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2464342 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:24:00 +0100 2464342 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458392&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fhome-education-case-study.html the Crawsham family'One of the reasons I took Joe out of school was that the social environment was very negative'Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458392 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:16:00 +0100 2458392 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458393&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fget-tough-on-home-education.html to weed out abuse, says review"Campaigners claim the move would fundamentally undermine the responsibility that lies with parents to ensure their child is receiving a good education, and allow the state an unprecedented intrusion into family life.Fiona Nicholson, of support group Education Otherwise, said: "If they introduce a registration system it would completely shift the balance of power. The state is coming into family life and trying to regulate it. It is an extraordinary invasion of the family."Action for Home Education said: "AHEd members believe that the review has been composed in this skewed manner in order to attain predetermined answers for the purpose of supporting the government's desire to impose compulsory registration, monitoring and tracking of electively home-educated ... Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458393 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:36:00 +0100 2458393 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458394&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fhome-schools-out-forever.html "If Graham Badman's recommendations for home tuition are adopted by the government, a whole way of life is under threat.If this is the case, to a large extent it will remove from parents the responsibility for how their children are educated. For many, without the freedom to learn autonomously, the very reason for home education will cease to exist.We'll have to wait and see how far any new legislation will go, and how hard home educators will resist it, but let's hope we don't end up with a situation like that in Germany, where the ban on home education means for many parents the only option is to emigrate."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458394 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:37:00 +0100 2458394 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2453012&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fnspcc-sorry-for-home-school-child-abuse.html The NSPCC has apologised after a spokesman suggested that home schooling may be a cover for child abuse cases like that of Victoria Climbié:“I would like to apologise for the offence this has caused. Clearly there is no connection between home education and Victoria’s tragic death as she was not being educated at home."The NSPCC made clear that it is not opposed to home schooling and that parents have the right to decide what is in the best interests of their children.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2453012 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:52:00 +0100 2453012 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2453014&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fnspcc-apologises-for-home-school-abuse.html The NSPCC has said sorry to home educators for implying that children schooled at home are at risk of abuse.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2453014 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:17:00 +0100 2453014 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2448010&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Frecord-number-of-kids-being-taught-at.html The number of Lincolnshire children being educated at home has more than quadrupled since 2002, new figures have revealed.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2448010 Sun, 31 May 2009 10:10:00 +0100 2448010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442387&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fbig-rise-in-home-schooling.html MORE Sheffield children are being taken out of school and taught at home than ever before – with numbers having tripled over the last 12 years. Over 170 youngsters in 118 families are currently being home educated in the city, compared with just 50 in 1996, according to a report to councillors.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442387 Thu, 28 May 2009 10:24:00 +0100 2442387 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442388&cid=t_176583_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fhome-education-on-news.html A DOZEN friends and family of a young autistic boy took to the skies to raise £3,500 for his continuing home education.Read more...Alison was shocked when her five-year-old daughter Lily did not get a place at the nearest school, and education bosses offered her a place at a school two miles away, instead. She decided that she did not want Lily to have to travel unsupervised in a taxi, and began to give her home tuition.A council spokesman said: “We have provided guidance and information regarding home education grants."Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442388 Mon, 25 May 2009 18:28:00 +0100 2442388