One of the reasons i am trying to write this here is that i am, or i used to be, fairly mild and main stream. And i have a reasonable number of readers (and facebook followers) who don’t HE but are open minded and intelligent. Many of them are mumszoners, who i hope will do what i do and make some polite but forceful noise, if i keep banging on often enough.

What depresses me more is that none of my family or close friends have signed that petition. Which basically means that they do regard me as a frizzy loony and probably also think there is no smoke without fire.

how do we speak to people not in this loop? otherwise we are talking only to the converted or sympathisers.

i just started a discussion (or tried to!) on the mainstream british mummy bloggers site. within seconds a flippant comment comes back with the subtext ‘you must be paranoid’.

i don’t know how to get over some of these issues. the newspaper articles are there, as you so rightly point out! so why aren’t people seeing them?!

expressing political issues can somehow make me sound like a frizz haired loony, and immediately discounted. not expressing them means i must sit through endless posts about the colour of cushion covers feeling more and more frustrated!

can someone *please* get these issues into the mainstream and away from the home ed corner! the range of opinions, attitudes and home/school/unschool options we represent are so easy to discount unless we do so.

(and apologies for having a turn in your comments box. it’s just that you posted the poem and it set me off!)