Ed Yourself - The Home Education Consultancy. Welcome to Interhigh School - A fresh approach to learning. Teaching Copyright. Home educating children with Asperger syndrome. Family Educator Commons. Groundbreaking books, such as The World is Flat and A Whole New Mind, have suggested that a whole new kind of educational system is necessary to prepare today’s students with the 22nd century skills necessary for the emerging global knowledge economy.
However, even the most innovative experiments within the public school system, such as charter schools and virtual school networks, are trapped within the antiquated institutions designed for the 19th century industrial economy. Teachers are forced to work within the assembly line structure imposed upon them: classes based on identical ages rather than abilities or interests, and run on a specific timeframe that requires everyone to use the same curriculum to produce an identical outcome at the same time to pass high-stakes tests.
As a result, nobody within these institutions can fully implement the radical educational programs developed by our leading futurists. These principles apply to family educator communities we know and love.
This parody of the nanny state helps neither children nor adults. I'm afraid that the government has not gone far enough in its efforts to protect our children.
It is not sufficient for the newly established Independent Safeguarding Authority to vet every adult who comes into regular contact with children outside the home. As we know, most cases of child abuse occur within the extended family or at the hands of family friends. Therefore the state needs to get inside the home to ensure absolute security for every child. Fortunately, building on the pioneering all-round security work done by the government of Tony Blair, and by the Metropolitan police under Ian Blair, we can now implement an excellent proposal made some years ago by the political analyst Eric Blair.
Ahead of his time, he suggested that the state might install hidden round-the-clock monitoring cameras in every home to watch out for any signs of deviance and nip it in the bud. Main Section > Grasshopper Toys Ltd. Scapegoats and scaremongers. I've been away for a while - trying to focus only on what I have to.
Lots happening and will do a catch up post soon... However I am moved to write today following the ridiculous media and government response to the court case about the awful death of 7 year old Khyra Ishaq. A large section of the home learning community have been waiting for this to happen - but it still doesn't stop you feeling extremely angry and upset. Why? Well blatant lies usually make me get upset... as do attempts to take away freedoms and rights that are important to me and my family. That is because there are many eleoquent people doing it on our behalf. Some of the British media (notably the BBC and the Times) have responded as expected to the news of Khyra and have focussed on the home education issue. They also rarely point out how the current legislation for England would be adequate if Local Authorities understood and followed the guidleines appropriately. so all I'm asking today is this..... Untitled. DCSF News.
Home learning resources. Home learning organisations. The Idler (Issue 41) HEdMap - Home Education Groups in the UK. Roundhouse Journal. There is in fact nothing that horrifies the schoolmaster so much as those strange creatures, precocious boys in the already dangerous period of adolescence.
Further, a certain element of genius had already seemed unwholesome to them in Heilner, for there exists a traditional hiatus between genius and the teaching profession and any hint of that element in schoolboys is regarded by them with horror from the very first. As far as they are concerned geniuses are those misguided pupils who never show them any proper respect, begin to smoke at the age of fourteen, fall in love at fifteen, go to pubs at sixteen, read forbidden books, write scandalous essays, stare at their teacher with withering scorn and are noted down in the school day-book as trouble-makers and candidates for detention.
Herman Hesse pg85-86 (1977) Penguin: Middlesex Yes, the tone of this piece is bitterness and resentment, and we should all acknowledge how much our experience of education is painted in such dark shades.