tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7355169292089791281.post6503637271957359276..comments2023-12-21T18:43:25.430+00:00Comments on Finding Simplicity: Home Schooling in EnglandSharon Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09050104785278502068noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7355169292089791281.post-54152569733090340912008-03-04T20:15:00.000+00:002008-03-04T20:15:00.000+00:00"We were skint, but we had a lot of love!!!!"And t..."We were skint, but we had a lot of love!!!!"<BR/><BR/>And that's the only thing that really matters, isn't it?Sharon Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09050104785278502068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7355169292089791281.post-90172463080654918642008-03-04T19:10:00.000+00:002008-03-04T19:10:00.000+00:00How rotten - why should there be 'tiers' at all - ...How rotten - why should there be 'tiers' at all - glass ceilings come to mind!<BR/>Pru I am so sorry for the experience your family had to suffer.<BR/>Binky and Bob were also home schooled,(there was a 'smacking' incident in the tiny local school - long story) for their primary years and then went into secondary school with the ease and aplomb, which I put down to their having been able to becomeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7355169292089791281.post-37530942508205778762008-02-28T19:10:00.000+00:002008-02-28T19:10:00.000+00:00I should really have fought it, Rae, but it was du...I should really have fought it, Rae, but it was during the time while she was being home schooled that I became ill and just didn’t have the fight in me. If I hadn’t been ill I would have taken it to the newspapers and my local MP and tried my hardest to get that rule changed. It IS unfair and, I’m sure, just another way of the system making it less attractive for parents to home school their Sharon Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09050104785278502068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7355169292089791281.post-27448987446195126722008-02-28T13:34:00.000+00:002008-02-28T13:34:00.000+00:00I'd just like to say that my son was also bullied ...I'd just like to say that my son was also bullied at school but nobody ever told me there was an alternative to school and whenever I kept him home I was threatened with the police and social services. The end of the story was that he tried to kill himself at 15 by hanging himself in a tree in the garden in the middle of the night but my OH happened to be in the loo at the time, heard noise and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7355169292089791281.post-6569610016524080492008-02-28T13:17:00.000+00:002008-02-28T13:17:00.000+00:00" because she was home educated, she wouldn’t be a..." because she was home educated, she wouldn’t be allowed a mark higher than a ‘C’ as she could only sit what’s called the foundation tier" ... outrageous, I almost shouted aloud in the office, that is so wrong<BR/><BR/>But well done both of you, and from the sounds fo the lessons etc it seems to you both benefitted from a bad situation in the long run by taking your own route to a solution<BR/><happyhippychickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17651001887435894716noreply@blogger.com