"what We Know About Their Lives"

[pastafreak]

Regarding the shackled siblings...it doesn't bear thinking about. All I can think is "why?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/42741868/shackled-siblings-what-we-know-about-their-lives

[youngmafbog]

//People saw them and did nothing.//

Exactly, that is why the Authorities should inspect.

What exactly do you have a problem with regard to inspections?

[ummmm]

What could people do? A lot of people, including, are quite ignorant to the goings on around me. If I seen a skinny kids I wouldn't think they were malnourished, I'd just think they were skinny.

People are guilty of assuming people are as nice as them so excuse what is in front of them because it's not something they can comprehend.

I was really clumsy kid and spent quite a bit of time in A&E. No one questioned my parents about my injuries and how often they happened (my parents have never laid a hand on me)

[mikey4444]

YMB....the difficulty when dealing with Americans in this regard is that so many of them have an in-built mistrust of any kind of Government, as can be seen from the BBC link ....Impost it again ::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42712140

You can see that the "HomeSchool Association of California" are acutely aware of the dangers of kids being unreachable and completely off-radar.

Its a problem that California must be thinking very hard about at the present time, but like the stupid gun laws that they have, I wouldn't expect anything to be done, any time soon.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, I know Mickey and I agree this case is unlikely to change it.

It would also seem some have the same problem over here with inspections!

[ummmm]

Funding. Who is going to pay for all these inspections?

[Islay]

The labour government when they take over the World Ummm!!!

[melv16]

Saving children's lives doesn't come cheap, Islay.

[mikey4444]

Ummm...the vast majority of kids go to ordinary, everyday schools. We don't seem to have much of a problem funding all the visits made to them, so why should a small number of additional visits pose any problems ?

[pastafreak]

As of 2015 there were 36000 honeschooled kids in the uk. Even if inspected/visited every other year...thats 18,000 visits to be made. Hmmm...70 visits per weekday over 52 weeks...

[pastafreak]

...home-schooled...

[mikey4444]

Sounds like a lot Pasta, I will have to agree.

[pastafreak]

A more up-to-date figure...50,000

http://www.teacherstoyourhome.co.uk/articles/significant-increase-in-home-schooling-in-the-uk

[albaqwerty]

have no idea why they would do that to their children.
A psychotic fear of empty nest syndrome?

I hope each child/adult can recover as best they can

[Jackdaw33]

I've nothing against private tuition part-time; I had it briefly to ensure I passed the 11+, but I think one of the main disadvantages of home schooling is that it tends to deprive children of the opportunity to interact with other children on a daily basis. This is an important part of growing up.

[albaqwerty]

I think some of us imagine home-schooling as a solitary child in a room with a parent educating them.
I think (gawd, I'm doing a lot of that) that it's further from that, and broadening their minds more than a bog-standard school can achieve.

[Jackdaw33]

But unless the parents are polymaths, can they provide the full broad curriculum at secondary level?

[mikey4444]

Jack...they can't.

When its time for kids to start of their GCSE options, than I can't see any alternative to a proper school, unless you have the odd science Lab hanging around the house.

I could probably teach a young child to read and write but having no teaching other training or other skills, I wouldn't be able to go much further.

I am loath to add this, as I have had enough opprobrium heaped upon for one day, but I agree about the interaction with other kids, as well as the general social skills that everybody needs as we grow up.

My, admittedly, limited experience with home schooling is that it is almost always due to religious reasons, rather than an attempt at a more rounded education.

[Mamyalynne]

Home schooling need not be a solitary existence for a child - there is in a way more freedom to leave the home and go out to study the World around them. Also lots of clubs to join and share experiences with others.

Religion may be one reason some choose this path but there are many others too.

The relarively short time my Grandchildren were home schooled was more to do with finding the right school due to their Autism.

This has now been resolved and they are all doing well in mainstream.

http://www.ahomeeducation.co.uk/where-can-home-schooled-child-take-examinations.html

Anyone intent on abuse or harm will manipulate a system to suit their evil ways, it does not follow that the system itself is bad.