Those of us watching the Badman Review and the Government steps to register, monitor and control education outside school have been aware for a long time of the poor quality of the review and how it was obviously conducted to give Ed Balls the answere he wanted, rather than an independent review.
The Select Committee has now published the submissions to the inquiry into the review. The most interesting submissions include:
Ofsted wants parents CRB checked to look after their own children!
Badman seems to consider parents who home educate to be mentally ill!
And emminent Professor James C Conroy, member of Graham Badman’s Expert Reference Group concludes that “In my 30 odd years of professional life in education I have rarely encountered a process, the entirety of which was so slap dash, panic driven, and nakedly and naively populist.”
http://every-child-matters.blogspot.com/2009/11/our-case-against-change.html reviews the submissions
Submissions to Select Committee on Badman Review
– November 11, 2009Posted in: Home education
Hi,
I just wanted to check whether you can help in promoting this petition against the government’s proposals re home education. We’re trying to make it one of the fastest growing petitions, and we got into the top 100 (out of around 4,700) this morning – only our 4th day. Any help would be much appreciated.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Home-ed-families/
Thanks,
Jill Harris
Signed and forwarded to friends.