I used to have rather fixed ideas about education. As a naturally academic person myself, good at exams and gaining qualifications, I believed that educational success meant learning a lot…
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Today marks a new beginning of sorts for me. My son, the Teenager, is home educated and has been for the last three and a half years. He has now…
What is education? As far as I’m concerned, ticking boxes required by the National Curriculum and stacking up GCSE grades have nothing to do with it. If we take the…
Yesterday we had our annual visit from the really nice man from the council who oversees my son’s education. The three of us sat round the dining table, looked through…