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For most, home education is far more like university than school. It's about
curiosity. Formulating a question or thought and researching it. The parents
roll is not to formally teach but to facilitate that journey. It doesn't really
matter too much what the child is curios about, the trick is to develop and
facilitate curiosity, kindle it like a precious flame, and ultimately develop
those critical thinking skills necessary to formulate new ideas for so it
becomes a raging inferno. That sounds complicated perhaps, but it's really not.
It's what all parents do for their children especially when they're small. Every
time a child asks a question you start a journey of discovery. If parents see
themselves not as teachers but as facilitators in this way, they will see
progress they didn't imagine possible. It's exciting and fun but it can also be
scary. Scary because as a parent you've been led to believe children need to be
steered along a certain path, that there's a set of knowledge all children
should have. But if that's not the child's path, or if it's a part of a journey
your child has not yet encountered, you're effectively imposing ideas on the
child and run the risk, along side millions of other children, of alienating
your child from the learning process, suppressing their own intrinsic curiosity
for the imposed ideas of others. How often has a child asked "what's the point
in this?" Far too many I suspect. Spark a child's curiosity, facilitate their
journey of discovery, put the child behind the wheel and they will take
responsibility for their own course and progress, because they will be
intrinsically motivated to satisfy their curiosity. For the overwhelming
majority of parents, this is the beauty of home education. By answering
questions they themselves pose, they retain what they learn because it's part of
their own journey. Something they questioned themselves. Covid-19 Home Schooling
Support We have created a support section entirely for those caught up in the
covid crisis. We also have a FB Forum just for you. Experienced home educators
are on hand to welcome you and help with issues relating to your child's
education at home. We can't promise to answer every question, but many of the
issues you will face will already have been dealt with by home educators who are
the experts in educating in the home. The group is the Home Education UK School
Closure Support Forum. now with over five thousand members The Supremacy of the
Family - & Why. “The totalitarian state tries to separate the child from her
family and mould her to its own design. Families in all their subversive variety
are the breeding ground of diversity and individuality. Hence the family is
given special protection in all the modern human rights… The child is not the
mere creature of the State.” Baroness Hale, President of the Supreme Court 11th
June 2008 LG Ombudsman rules against routine visits The Local Government
Ombudsman ruled that councils must be clear with parents of home educated
children whether a home visit is routine or triggered by concerns following
Leicester City's attempt to initiate actions based on anticipating, future
government proposals currently being considered Download a Free Poster Many
parents remain unaware that home education is legal, or if they are aware, where
to find support. This poster could be put up anywhere parents and children might
benefit. a3 poster download Download a poster today, print it, pin it. Help
other children learn freely A4 Poster download Educational Heretics Press EHP
publishes books and kindles on many topics related to home education and
learning systems that are alternative or complimentary to state schooling.
Including books on how and why home educators home educate. book cover A great
introduction to alternative education. Many EHP books are available as Kindles,
at low prices and you don't need a kindle to read them, there are app's for all
brands of smart phone and tablet. Build your own library of 'read anywhere Home
Education - a Human Right "The respect of parent's freedom to educate their
children according to their vision of what education should be has been part of
international human rights standards since their very emergence." (The Special
Rapporteur to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights 8th April 1999)
Parents are responsible for the education of their offspring regardless of
whether they are in school or out of it. In law the right to an education is an
obligatory right, it may neither be denied to, nor refused by, a child. Thus
since children may not refuse education and there is no academic consensus on
what constitutes an effective education, we believe that the state must be
flexible in defining what a 'suitable' education is. While the law expresses the
right to home educate as a parental right, it is my belief that, in the same way
that young people have the right to decide upon medical procedures, a specific
education should not be imposed upon them. This is not only right in principle
but in practice, since intrinsically motivated learning will most readily
"achieve that which it sets out to achieve". Learning cannot be imposed.
