The always-eloquent Carlotta at Dare to Know apprises us:
The argument from the DCSF seems to be that because home educated children are not necessarily seen regularly by statutory services, that they are therefore necessarily at risk.
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Is this the future for home educating families everywhere in England? It would seem a little unfair when you consider that the only statutory service that school children necessarily come across is their school. The idea here is presumably that teachers will reliably be able to spot abuse.
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Perhaps social work departments shouldn’t just be picking on HE families. Perhaps they should go knocking on the doors of every family in England.
That it could one day come to that doesn’t seem much of a stretch.
If you’re curious to learn more about home education and children’s rights (not to mention civil and privacy rights) in the UK, the Dare to Know archives would be an excellent place to start.
- Educational Anarchy . . . um, yeah!
Many thanks to Imperceptibility for the graphic, and to the California Teachers Association for the labelThe Evolved Homeschooler Wiki
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