Lessons from lockdown: home schooling is not home education

Dumfries and Galloway Council has once again vexed home educators by failing to differentiate between lockdown learning or ‘home schooling’ and elective home education in its latest community bulletin.  And that is without mentioning the glaring typo in the headline…  Read More …

Coronavirus advice: Let children play!

Our advocacy colleague and vice-convener of Home Education Scotland, Mark Nixon, comments in today’s Courier on home education during anticipated school closures and lockdown, his key message being: replicating school at home is ill-advised. Coronavirus: ‘Let anxious kids play online Read More …