Open Letter to David Chaytor

Thank you for you civil response. I must disagree with your claim that 'home educators are providing this service in lieu of the state'. Traditionally parents have been responsible to educate their children and may do so by using a school's services, that is to say delegating their duty. Schools are assessed, therefore, to inform parental choice. Section 7 of the 1996 education act is the relevant legislation. However, all this will likely change soon, a fact I find disturbing and immoral.

Thank you :)

I hoped it would. Thanks :)

LB it is clear who is the totalitarian here, it is you and Mr. David Chaytor. Reading the long list of your comments, it's quite obvious what you are here for.

LB: Whether or not the state is 'proving' to provide a suitable education, it is not your duty to impose coercion on parents to pass your tests. You do not own us or our children and therefore you have no right to remove our freedoms or to harass us or impose on us your monitoring schemes, through the erosion of our civil and human rights.

Because LB we do not have to demonstrate to either Mr Chaytor or you the 'quality' of what we do. We have the freedom of our values and conscious and beliefs. We are not a state imposed system, we are parents freely choosing to home educate our children and refuse to be bullied, monitored or demonsied by this government..

No it can't be argued because parents do not have to answer to the state as to how to educate & raise their children, nor should they be categorized as paid teachers in schools because children are living with parents and if parents decide to educate their children through their responsibilities then the state has no right to intervene in what is not their business.

There we are. All my comments removed. If I'm not allowed to engage in any kind of debate at all, I'll be on my way. I notice that the poster of the video hasn't replied to any of my comments, unlike for all the people who flat agreed with him. I thought that this was a forum for a serious discussion, not the self-congratulatory, slightly hysterical shouting match that it is.

Actually, on second thoughts, I'm going to leave my comments. Then casual readers can judge for themselves.

I did not respond because I was away from the internet. This is an emotionally charged issue because we are, in my view and in the view of many others', discussing lives being ruined by state interference.