Not At School Today

Here is an article in the Independant written by one Home Educator who schools in a traditional manner, lambasting those who take an autonomous approach. (A man who also, btw, worked under Graham Badman in the CFHFE.)

For goodness sakes. The comments to the article respond much better than I ever could, but there are so many problems with it. The author, Simon Webb, doesn’t give one shred of evidence or fact, other than his own opinions, to support his argument, and has ignored all the evidence that autonomous education is an ‘astonishingly efficient way to learn’.

There are as many different ways of educating as there are home educators. Just because one way of doing it doesn’t suit you, it doesn’t mean that it is not a viable, legitimate alternative. Home educators in all forms need to stick together at the moment, what with all the flak from the government, rather than starting petty arguments amongst ourselves.

Come on Webb, don’t just jump on the home-educators-bashing bandwagon, just because it’s a popular view with the media and the government at the moment, and it means you’ll get your name in print. Shame on you.