(Guest post by missdisco)

Ministers today unveiled plans for a major toughening-up of the regulation of home education, forcing families who opt out of schooling to register annually with their local authorities, submit learning plans and undergo regular inspections. If they fail the inspections they could be made to send their children to school.

A lot of people, noticeably home-educators, seem to be up in arms about the notion that they may have to register their children as being home-educated and have lesson plans and such examined. A controlling draconian state, big brother blah blah blah.

Some of these people need to just shut the fuck up.

I was home-educated between 1993-2001. It was an appalling experience. My mother was a manipulative bitch, who actually never bothered to teach us at all. It was a whim for her for about a year, but then i think she just lost it and just couldn’t be bothered with anything, except keeping us in the house. As a child i barely left the house except maybe once a week. I didn’t do science, languages, PE, art, music, or anything interesting. My interest in English Literature arose out of being a Manic Street Preachers fan, otherwise i suspect i would have never had that.

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