I write to you regarding your shameful coverage of the Khyra Ishaq case on the Jeremy Vine Show on Friday. While the interview was conducted by Fern, it was done in the name of JV and quite honestly, you should both be ashamed.
Fern, to be a journalist is many things; there is, without doubt, a [...]
Khyra Ishaq was NOT home educated. There is no record of her being deregistered. She was taken out of school when there were already considerable concerns about her, concerns which her being in school were not actually addressing. The authorities knew about her and tried to visit her home and did vist on more than [...]
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Oh dear. Lack of energy and inclination is going to reduce the first half of Feb to what i can remember from Brightkite and Facebook updates. I shall have to download my camera too and see what i find on there.
February started with the launch of a new website for the business, known [...]
One of the little gems we stumbled on recently, when Max was trawling through iPlayer (god how i love that service) was Chemistry – A Volatile History. It has been one of the most eye opening experiences of my educational life and certainly an enormous success in terms of how HE works, not only in [...]
And some of them are repeatedly having to explain and defend home education and the right to do so to people who will not take the time to inform themselves or open their minds. Like this particular Lord for example or indeed this one, who seems to have taken it into her head to fall [...]
