Has anyone here heard of the home ed review?

[ailbhe]

I've written something about it in Who Teaches Whom. I did honestly try to give it my most charitable interpretation but at some point in the next few days I expect I'll post something else too. I do feel that if I want anyone who agrees with the review to listen to me I can't point out its worst and most damaging flaws, which hurts somewhat.

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[ailbhe]

Given that home-education simply isn't an option for all parents, and I can't see how it ever could be, I think school provision should be diversified and seek to include as many different children as possible.

See, I think that too - I see school and state education as a resource which ought to be flexibly designed for the benefit of children.

But the idea that the same set of basic assumptions about how someone's brain is wired will work for almost all people boggles me utterly, and that's what "school more or less works for almost everyone" sounds like to me.

I do quite see that a lot of the economy is based on the "free" childcare that school provides and especially in Ireland the whole thing depends on women being primary carers and having preferably full-time jobs, with free after-school childcare from other women making up the difference. I can *see* that. I only personally know two full-time primary-carer fathers, in all my deliberate socialising excursions, so I feel quite justified in singling the expectations placed on mothers here.