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Blaming Homeschooling for Death of Child

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A tragic death of a child, social services under fire, and homeschooling is being blamed: UK Government’s Education Expert Blames Homeschooling for Death of Child The British government’s lead expert on education is pointing to the tragic death of a Birmingham child, who had been taken out of school by her mother, as an...
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Closer monitioring of homeschoolers in the UK

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Children’s Minister Delyth Morgan has accepted in full the recommendations of Graham Badman’s Review of Elective Home Education in England. Badman calls for more study and closer monitoring of homeschoolers in the UK.
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Lancashire, UK homeschool numbers increase

Home school increase in Lancashire, 13 July 2008, Lancashire Telegraph, Blackburn, England New figures reveal the number of youngsters on the county’s home education register has more than doubled since 2000 — with bullying increasingly cited as the reason. … The council has no legal obligation to monitor the quality of home education, but...
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British homeschooling: “a free-range, middle-class, bohemian upbringing”

Home education: a class apart, 12 April 2008, Telegraph.co.uk, London, England Chung Chung and Hua Hua are what is known as “home-eds”, raised entirely outside the school system. Their parents did consider local primary schools, but were unimpressed: the children emerging from the schools seemed alarmingly regimented, drilled to act and behave in a...
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No reason was given, but UK homeschooling expected to “boom”

Home learning expected to boom, 14 January 2008, Sunderland Echo, Sunderland, UK Figures obtained by the Echo today showed parents removed 121 children from Sunderland Local Education Authority between 2005 and 2007, to teach them at home. Research by Durham University estimated that 150,000 UK children are taught at home, a figure expected to...
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U.K. headmaster wants to “stamp out” home ed

Opting out, 4 October 2007, The Citizen, Preston, Lancashire, England Shocking figures revealed this week show that a staggering number of parents in Lancashire are now opting to educate their children at home. … Head teacher Christopher Meldrum declined to speak to The Citizen but told Channel 4 News that he did not support...
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U.K. county council calls for stricter home education guidelines

Carlotta, at the blog “Dare to Know,” reports on the Cheshire county council: The Problems with Calls for Tougher Home Education Guidelines, 3 October 2007 Take Cheshire County Council by way of an example. Cheshire CC has issued a press release which comes with the tagline: “Cheshire Calls For Tougher Guidelines Concerning Home Education”...
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“Cases?” Since when are we “cases?”

Being called a “case” is never attractive. head case nut case having a ‘case of the hips’ investigate a case criminal case social worker’s case UK home-school cases soar, 26 September 2007, Channel 4 News, London, UK There is no reliable data on how many of these children there are – estimates say up...
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English family unschools since 1985

The case for home-school: family, 26 September 2007, Channel 4 News, London, UK When our first child Christopher came along in 1985 we started off by learning through fun and games. Chris learned about maths by counting the studs on the Lego he built, by measuring out dinosaurs, baking dinosaur biscuits, weighing and measuring...
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