Reviewing Home Education: The Badman Song

The rights of Home Educators in England are under threat from our government who have appointed Graham Badman to conduct a review that's only real purpose is to spread their totalitarian web of control to Home Educators.

This song is to show Graham Badman that I know EXACTLY what he's up to.

Oh, and it's also so that other people he annoyed are brought some comic relief.

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Comedy

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[voxpopification]

Quite how you can say that home education has got 'nothing to do' with tragic abuse cases 'in any way' is frankly, a cynical cop out. It smacks of HE-UK rhetoric and the type of group think found within religious cults.

As a 'community' home educators were/are directly responsible for monitoring child safety within their own area of expertise.

[ThePhantomCorrector]

@voxpopification And I say it has nothing to do with those cases because, quite honestly, it has nothing to do with those cases. Home education is a philosophy and way of life which is about letting children learn in a way other than through mainstream schooling.

The abuse cases were incidents where people obviously didn't care about their children, and instead pandered to their own faith, perversions, or mental defections.

[voxpopification]

It's easy to see how Angela Gordon and Junaid Abu Hamza managed to remove Kyrah Isaq from her school and fatally abuse her.

[ThePhantomCorrector]

@voxpopification They managed to abuse her while she was at school as well, and no-one noticed.

[voxpopification]

EO and HE-UK has provided ready written education philosophies to help people they've never met remove their children from school. That's a practice that's gone on for years, they've never attended any support meetings, activities, gatherings or sought face to face meetings with local contacts.

It doesn't stop there, there is a readily available bank of advice and tactics available online so as LAs don't get to see children removed from school for a very long time.

[ThePhantomCorrector]

@voxpopification It's true that home educators often avoid LAs. Perhaps home educators wouldn't need to hide from LAs if LAs themselves weren't so anti-home ed. Their entire philosophy is about not accepting any kind of education other than the standard school one, and trying to turn home education into a kind of "school-at-home" which is a bad environment for many children who want to learn about the world in their own time, and their own way.

[RennHunter]

I love this, it's just brilliant. Back off Badman, we have the support of the public!

And we also know more because I have just started a GCSE in English Language two years before they do in school and I'm home ed.

[cgsouthey]

mmartini50: 1. I say again, the government - and schools - are accountable to us, not the other way around. 2. let's see some figures to the contrary it before we introduce laws based on speculation. 3. Wrong - how many teachers agree with the government's tick-box approach to schooling? (my wife is a teacher btw). 4The govt's 'standards' are based on an impoverished model of 'do x by age y' which does not fit with natural diversity in the way different children learn.

[ThePhantomCorrector]

@voxpopification Then perhaps EO is a corrupt organisation, and the home educators who love and care for their children enough to take them away from somewhere they're unhappy against the opinion of so many powerful people shouldn't affiliate themselves with them any more.

[voxpopification]

@ThePhantomCorrector

Although the use of CRB disclosure was and is pretty much manditory for those who work with children and vulnerable members of the public, EO didn't and doesn't insist upon local contacts being cleared.

Martin Smith was not the first abuser that had been involved with EO.

[ThePhantomCorrector]

@voxpopification These are all terrible things, but home education has nothing to do with these in any way.

Without the help of home education, so many of the same sort of atrocities are committed. In fact, I do remember a certain story about a woman who, at a government funded nursery, used her position to make child pornography.

We shouldn't all have to be lumped in with people like that just because they've found their way into a community we belong to.

[voxpopification]

There's also the Eunice Spry case where she tortured her foster children..they were home educated too.

And the tragic Kyrah Isaq case...another 'home educating' parent that abused her child, unfortunately the victim didn't survive the ordeal.