A parent who really desires to understand his child does not look at him through the screen of an ideal. It is only when one feels no love for the child that one imposes upon him an ideal, for then one's ambitions are trying to fulfil themselves in him, wanting him to become this or that. If one loves, not the ideal, but the child, then there is a possibility of helping him to understand himself as he is. Krishnamurti
I hope you are not relying on a cyber petition alone.
I was not able to work when I was looking after my mum, but you know one day they will come after the carers and harass them too, the Government does not care if people end up on the streets or starve so long as they have jam today.
There is such a thing as justice and there is a God who judges, that alone gives me comfort in the face of what the Politicians do.
What is needed is a concerted campaign offline which seeks allies amongst the other groups threatened by such absurd and inhuman demands that take us back to the Victorian era of the workhouse and 16 hour days with no respite.
It is possible to resist if a large enough co-operative movement is built in the best traditions of the movement that brought the Labour party into being in the first place.
The Labour party doesn't like home education because it is a threat to their unpopular and failing model of education - or should I say NuLab indoctrination via the National Curriculum.
Most home educating parents I have met hold a dim view of Labour and will be glad to see the back of this wretched government - and the sooner the better.
It's interesting that you mention forming a movement. I am a member of a movement called Dissident Congress that strongly supports home education.
"Children who are labelled with Asperger's Syndrome do not need more structure and direction in their lives; they need considerably less. They need, primarily, to be freed from being seen as products or being objectified and defined by a list of subjective observations. They need parents who are unquestioningly on their side, not to impose their own or so-called experts' agendas on their children in the name of loving assistance, but simply to assist their children in carrying forward their own intrinsically motivated lives in process. To do this requires a willingness to ask radical questions and to let go of many entrenched assumptions about education, psychology and parenting, to name but a few. It requires going against mainstream and often allegedly expert opinion. It is not an easy path. It is not a neglectful path. It is a moral path."
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I hope you are not relying on a cyber petition alone.
I was not able to work when I was looking after my mum, but you know one day they will come after the carers and harass them too, the Government does not care if people end up on the streets or starve so long as they have jam today.
There is such a thing as justice and there is a God who judges, that alone gives me comfort in the face of what the Politicians do.
What is needed is a concerted campaign offline which seeks allies amongst the other groups threatened by such absurd and inhuman demands that take us back to the Victorian era of the workhouse and 16 hour days with no respite.
It is possible to resist if a large enough co-operative movement is built in the best traditions of the movement that brought the Labour party into being in the first place.
The Labour party doesn't like home education because it is a threat to their unpopular and failing model of education - or should I say NuLab indoctrination via the National Curriculum.
Most home educating parents I have met hold a dim view of Labour and will be glad to see the back of this wretched government - and the sooner the better.
It's interesting that you mention forming a movement. I am a member of a movement called Dissident Congress that strongly supports home education.
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