My thoughts exactly.
Education minister hoping to double the fine cost of taking children out of school in term time .threatening to charge parents of children who are late more than 5 times.yet these numptys are allowed to get away with non existent education for their children
I home educated my children while were were living in Australia. We had to provide documented proof that our children were participating regularly in formalised outside activities like sports and drama where they interacted with peers. We had to submit our curriculum for approval, we had to get police record checks on every instructor brought in to teach the group classes we held with other homeschooling families in our network for subjects like maths, science, computer programming and foreign languages. Even when, as in many cases, those instructors were parents of other children in the network. The network was in fact the most essential element of our homeschooling program and without it we would never have been able to provide the kids with the depth or variety required for a truly rounded educational experience. Where is theirs?
We were subject to inspections of the learning environment and the learning materials we provided the kids with. We had to provide yearly progress reports on each child for all key learning areas. Each year we had to submit a plan for their home education which showed an alignment between our child’s learning and the national curriculum. It was possible to buy a state issued homeschooling plan but we chose to develop our own, using that one as a starting block. Developing these individual plans was especially time consuming as I had one child with severe dyslexia and ASD and one child who was assessed as extremely gifted. So two completely different plans were required and two completely different approaches to learning catered for.
I cannot imagine that there are fewer or less onerous obligations on homeschooling families in the UK. It beggars belief how this pair of ignorant, illiterate lumps are getting away with this farcical pretence at education they carry on with.