Should Parents Even Be Allowed To 'home School' Their Children?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6875257/Homeschooling-parents-forced-sign-register-protect-extremist-indoctrination.html

[pixie374]

I do agree that by secondary school age, there needs to be a lot more choices than there are.

[Prudie]

Well I'm going to put my teacher head on Spath because you are still young enough to learn and it's an error I've seen you do more than once:-
peruse means to read, the word you want is pursue - this is not spelling police, this is education.

[Rockrose]

Can’t say I struggled with the lack of choice, I took 10 GCSEs and passed them all

[spathiphyllum]

Thank you prudie it may land. I used to spell 'Surely' as 'surly' until douglass mentioned something.

[spathiphyllum]

I have 4 GCSEs english maths and two science.

[pixie374]

So did I, rockrose and 3 A Levels, but none of them in any subjects that I have ever used since. Some vocational choices would have been very useful.

[Rockrose]

We took vocational at college, car maintenance, caring community, filmmaking and relationships

[spathiphyllum]

"Some vocational choices would have been very useful."

That is what i wanted at school.

[Rockrose]

Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Maths
English language
English lit
History
Geography
Home ec
French

[pixie374]

Yes, that may well have been a better choice for me personally. Everyone at my school was just assumed to be doing A Levels and university.

[pixie374]

I did the same, rr, but instead of Home Ec and Geography, did Business and Technology and Latin.

[Peter Pedant]

we have a litany ( yes litany !) of subjects
were these all gained by home schooling
or just that the educated amongst felt forced to tell us what they got ?

the results of english home schooling tends to be bad - they dont pass nuffin...
and yes I think the hidden agenda is islamic home schooling....
Long article on Shameem ( again ) to day in the Times and an emphasis on - "at skool I didnt learn narfin'"
and then "I believed everyfing I saw on the internet"

and honestly I think: how CAN these kids be so gormless?

[woofgang]

oh listen PP its not just the kids who are gormless. I saw one of those 'help this poor man get out of hospital in Thailand" things on FB and when I inquired of the lady....who i don't know in real life but who seems sensible in what she posts....she said I don't know him but what could anybody gain by posting this? and when I said moolah she was shocked...and she's in her 40's and runs a business.