Khyra Ishaq & Home Education

If you came across this news item, find out more from Gerald Warner here, "It is clear that the Government and other “progressive” agencies, their propaganda helpfully promoted by the BBC, are already exploiting the Khyra Ishaq case to advance their agenda of attacking homeschooling" - and from the following:

Maire-Staffordshire - Dare to Know - Sometimes It's Peaceful - Renegade Parent - Tech - Firebird - Debs - Lou - Ciaran - Stuart Dunstan - Ali - Jem - Sue - Cat - Sally - Merry

There is also a pledge

"I will withhold my TV License Payments until the BBC apologises to Home Educators."

you can make here.

Also on the news:
Tories promise to block home school plans

Tomorrow on BBC3

Info taken from here: Documentary about withdrawn teenager Megan, who has delayed socialisation... Megan is home-schooled by her strict Jehovah's witness mum and dad and leads a life structured around rules and routines. We enter her life where she has to spend time with the family rather than others of her own age.

Thu 9:30pm

Home Ed Latest News

Home educators' worry at register
It is not known how many children in England are home educated
People who educate their children at home rather than sending them to school say they against having to register annually with local authorities.

Worthing home school families join campaign against new rules
PARENTS and their children from Worthing joined a campaign against government proposals to change the rules around home education.

Don't intrude, say parents who educate children at home
Home educators tell MPs they do not want home visits from local authorities, as recommended by a government review.

Home education vs. the bully-boy state
The presumption of guilt is eating it`s way into our lives: Home Education is the latest victim. As a parent you are a suspect in the crusade against child abuse. That is the message to Home Education from this government.Through a staged Review and now onto a Select Committee, the drive has been to find ways to justify an assault on Home Ed., taking away parental rights, enforcing child interviews alone and invading the family in a way that singles out Home Ed. as a "prime suspect".

The propaganda: Government To Provide More Support For Familes With Children Being Educated At Home

On the news

A teacher said only when recruiting materials gave a true picture of war would he welcome them into his school. These would have to say:

"Join the Army and we will send you to carry out the imperialist occupation of other people's countries. Join the Army and we will send you to bomb, shoot and possibly torture fellow human beings in other countries. Join the Army and we will send you probably poorly equipped into situations where people will try to shoot or kill you because you are occupying other people's countries. Join the Army, and if you survive and come home, possibly injured or mentally damaged, you and your family will be shabbily treated."

Teachers reject 'Army propaganda'
Pupils 'given biased Iraq view'
Iraq: teachers told to rewrite history