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A moving account of how bullying led one family to home education Trouble with school started the first day that my scared little nine-year-old daughter went to middle school. That first day, a girl asked her if she had nits. Read More …
Karen turned to home education as a last resort when her daughter, who has profound special needs, was severely bullied at school to the point of her self-harming and threatening suicide. They quickly turned a negative reason into a positive Read More …
Mary Rose climbs a rung on the rural one-upmanship ladder as she shares aspects of her family’s free range and organic home-based education in rural Gloucestershire. “Home-grown and organic” The phrase strikes a familiar and welcome chord when browsing Farmers Read More …
Following publication today of a censorious report by a cross-party group of MPs which strongly urges the government to learn lessons from its “unfortunate” handling of the elective home education review in England, Action for Home Education (AHEd) has reiterated its condemnation Read More …
It’s not always easy being a greenie! An environmental inspired article by Mary Rose, one of our regular home education columnists. Thirty years ago, when Kermit the frog sang his lament, “green” was an adjective applied first to vegetation, secondly Read More …
