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Why is the UK government persecuting home educators?
A little more than a year after the last consultation on home education they've launched another one. This time with no warning and giving home educators a single month to reply. The standard is 12 weeks but they are allowed to get around this "in exceptional circumstances, such as where Departments need to respond quickly in the best interest of the public." When did home ed become such a dreadful threat to the British public?
If you're interested in reading it the 'consultation document' is very, very short http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/consultations/index.cfm?act...
It's hard to dream up a benign excuse for this, in fact I've so far totally failed to do so. The only possible reason is that the government want to bring in new powers to monitor, regulate and control home eduction and hope that they can rush them through before we have time to mount a defence.
@Sasha, and naturally you reported both cases to the authorities the very moment you became aware of them and action was taken, right? Because laws and systems already exist to deal with these things as long as people who know something is wrong don't just turn away and ignore them. Nothing to do with home education.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I wish you luck with this one firebird because unless you can get it asked in parliament I don't think you are going to get an answer. The governments stock answer should be that they are not trying to victimise genuine home educators but to catch cases of abuse. Why when they don't have any statistics to back it up they target Home Educators as high risk I have no idea.
Another way to ask the question could be "Why does the provision of education seem to be linked to abuse in the minds of our politicians?" May be because of their experiences at school?
- sashs.geoLv 71 decade ago
It's not home education that is the problem it is the parents who pull their kids out of school to do housework / look after younger siblings or send them abroad to get married under age.
You might thing these things are far fetched but I have experience of seeing two of these happen.
