Human Rights

I have just been reading the Children, Schools and Families Bill on the parliament website and it occurred to me the the department of education may want some help with its ideas for home education - an area in which its thinking appears to have become a little fuzzy.

Schedule 1.
Home Education England

Registration & Monitoring
1. Parents are required to monitor the performance of any school that their children attend.
2. Wherever children are failing to have a meaningful educational experience in school, parents are required to register their concerns with the teaching staff.
3. If these concerns are not rapidly addressed, parents are required to remove their children from the school and to teach them at home.

Duration
4. Parents are required to keep educating their children at home until such time as they find a school or other form of educational provision which is capable of providing them with a meaningful educational experience.
5. Parents are obliged to ensure that their children remain in a creative educational environment until such time as their children are old enough to look after themselves.

Appeal against Parent's Decision
6. Schools and local education authorities do not have a direct right of appeal against parent's decsions. Where they have legitimate grounds for concern, they should address them to the children's parents, grandparents and other relatives, in order to help find an appropriate solution.

Welcome to Freedom in Education

Freedom in education is about children being free to learn what they want when they want. It is a recognition of the fact that human beings are born with a thirst for knowledge and that each individual's own desire to learn is a better guide to curriculum and timetable than any system imposed by other people can ever be.